Goodbye Montreal

It is pretty insane to think that I'm leaving Montreal *forever* in just 7 short days! So weird to be holding a one-way ticket (literally!) with my name on it ... that's the kind of thing you hear about in songs and movies and novels, but you never really imagine that it will ever happen to you.

People have been asking me what I think I'll miss most about not living here anymore. I'm not sure. Obviously, I'll miss my family and my friends. I'll miss my morning coffee dates at Starbucks with Jessica. I'll miss my scrap days and chick flick afternoons with Catherine. I'll miss the 45-minute drive into the city with my mommy each morning. I'll miss the frozen fried ice-cream at 3 Amigos restaurant, the third floor of the Concordia Library with its rows and rows of theology books, the breath-taking sight of the rows of golden cornfields near my house in the fall, strolling through the Old Port in the summertime, spontaneous road trips to Applebee's, family BBQ's every weekend in the summer. I'll miss the familiarity of it all.

I know that I will make new memories and traditions in Vancouver and I'm crazy crazy excited to find out what life will be like once I've settled into my new home. But, tonight, I'm just going to take a little time to be nostalgic and think about all I've been blessed with over the past 23 years.

Goodbye, Montreal.
You've been good to me, but it's time for us to part.

xox