Allons-y à la plage!

Today we gave our feet a break which worked out because I forgot my FitBit. So far I've been clocking in about 30,000 steps a day which makes for tired feet!  Today we decided to go to Parc Jean Drapeau which is the name of two small islands in the middle of Montreal, created on a man-made lake.

This park is awesome and is the home of an amusement park, the Biosphere and other museums, an aquatic center, a casino, an open water swimming area, and a Formula 1 track which becomes an awesome place for cyclists and rollerbladers.  It's so neat!!  In addition, one of the islands is a fun "beach" where you can swim in the water. When Will and I were discussing what to pack, I was surprised when he told me to pack a swimsuit and that this "beach" existed. I was super excited because he also mentioned they had all kinds of water activities and one of them was wakeboarding!! Will knew I have been wanting to try that for some time so that was on our agenda today. Unfortunately when we got to the beach, the wakeboarding park was closed due to what we think was mechanical issues. Womp womp!  However, we still had tons of fun!  We went stand up paddleboarding, laid out in the sun, and played on an aqua-obstacle course called Aquazilla!! It was the perfect way to get some relaxation in after such a busy day yesterday. 

This was what the beach looked like when it first opened and no one was there. Soon there would be tons of people on both the sand and grass laying out and picnicking!

 

After showering the sand off our fresh tans, we made our way back to the final film we were going to be seeing. There has been a line to get into every film that we've been to but this one was especially long.  Good thing we got here extra early! 

This one was a Japanese film called "If Cats Disappeared from the World."  It was a drama about a mailman who only had a few days to live. He meets a devil who will give him an extra day to live in exchange of getting rid of something in the world that is a meaningful connection to someone he loves.  It was so good.  It's hard to explain but I was crying so much I had to contain myself from sobbing.  I could only contain it for so long though because the second we got out of the theatre I cried some more just talking to Will about it. Here's my ugly cry face. 

After the movie we headed to a late dinner at a Japanese Izakaya. We did the tasting menu and it was delicious!  The only thing I didn't get a pic of was our black sesame ice cream and that's because we ate that bowl clean before I remembered!