Montreal & Formula one

On Friday 8Th June Mittu, Rakhi & I drove to Montreal. New Brunswick & Quebec are separated by New Hampshire, hence we had to drive all the way up and take very long route to Quebec & Montreal.Actually if we could cut across New Hampshire we could reach Quebec city in less than 4 hours. However when we drove along the highway it took us almost 7.5 hours. Florence ville & Quebec city are on the same latitude.

It is a shame that US & Canada can not have a highway running through New Hampshire which will benefit both countries and save enormous amount of time & gas every year.

As soon as we leave New Brunswick & enter Quebec some how the land scape changes immediately. Quebec seems more affluent compared to New Brunswick. We drove all along St.Lawrence bay passing many small villages & towns named after one saint or the other.One day I must visit Quebec city as it is known as Paris of the west.

At the race it was very colorful as people were wearing colors of their respective teams. When the race started we could only see the tops of the cars for a fraction of a second racing at earth shattering speed and noise. Every one had ear plugs to protect their ear drums from shattering in to tiny pieces.Imagine we had to go through the ordeal for 70 laps.Hamilton from UK won the race. he was the first black driver ever to win Formula One.

I was watching the race comfortably sitting on small folding stool in shade of a tree, eating hot dog & Ice cream.

We left the venue of the race as soon as the race was over , before the metro got very crowded as we wanted to reach Florence ville by 1 am. Mittu & Rakhi had to go to work next day.In the evening of 11Th we Mittu & Rakhi drove me to Fredrick ton as I had a flight to Richmond on 12th afternoon.

So I am back in Richmond and Sonu has gone to NY for a training program for 2 days.
I see Ameya off in the morning at 6 am & pick him up at 1PM from YMCA.
Sonu will be back on Friday afternoon.Friday Angela's friend is hosting prewedding party. Sunday Mike & Angela are getting married & on 20th Sonu & Rahul are hosting a party. So plenty of activity in Richmond area.
Bye for the time being