Now that I've lived here a while one of the things I've noticed is that Montreal assumes a different smell every day. Large parts of the city end up smelling like something in particular. One day it smells like freshly baked bread, the next like sewage. Today it smells like candy. And come to think of it that may not be so strange, considering how yesterday was Halloween. Maybe, and I can only speculate here, there's a relation, considering how some parts of the Montreal sewage system are connected directly to her surface waters (or so I've heard in my ecological economy class). Ah yes, Halloween. It really is quite a big thing here in Canada. For the past few weeks I've been hearing people discuss what to wear and seeing facebook messages showing off costumes. Apparently it's one of the few non-commercial feasts still out there. Of course there is always money to be made, but a lot of people make their own costumes and use the occasion to show off some creativity and original thought. At a party of one of my friends, someone taped red balloons all over his body, which is low-budget if anything is. If you cannot visualize the balloons and make the connection; it's a raspberry.

In other news, my mother was here last week. We took a lot of pictures!