Wondering around today

Today I got a day pass to the Metro and went all over. This first picture is some art in a Metro station. The Metro here is much easy to understand than the Subway in New York. It is very simple by comparison, the hard part is knowing which direction to walk once you get up on the street level again. Plus there are lots of under ground tunnels with shops in them that go on for blocks which is nice but it took me a while to learn I could use them to get out of the cold. First I went to the library which doesn't sound that interesting to many people but it is the Quebec National Archives it is huge and wonderful and they have their own tour of the library which I might take tomorrow. Then I walked up and down one of the little streets even though it was freezing outside, It was so pretty outside I couldn't bear to hide indoors. The second picture is of some staircases that I took while walking around. These type of staircases are unique to the Montreal area. I am not sure of their history but I have heard that they were made illegal for a while because people thought they were ugly but now they are legal again. I think they are pretty cool looking myself and the black metal reminds me of New Orleans. Then after walking around for a while I made my way over to the Redpath Museum which is a free museum associated with McGill University. It was very nice. Actually after seeing it they could easily charge for visitors to see their collection. It was three stories each one filled with fossils and other items. the third picture is 'Sara' a Triceratops skull. I love dinosaurs so I had a wonderful time looking through the collection at this museum. It was nice having the time to look through everything. I saw lots of "do not touch" items Chance would love to grab, a museum like this is a few years away for him yet but hopefully he will enjoy them then. The snow was off and on all day, it was not nice when I had to walk into the wind but it was well worth it, getting to see all of these cool things today. I have never been out in snow like this before. I have played in it when I was little but never actually walking to get somewhere. It is a whole new experience for me but I am having a good time. The last picture is a bus stop on the same block as our hotel.