Trip to the shrine...

Michelle came up this past week for a few days, and we visited the St. Joseph shrine in Montreal... it was fun and great... It was also really nice to pray with Michelle by my side instead of on the phone.
It takes 2 hours from Johnson to Montreal... but this time it took 3... while I was on the computer looking up maps, Michelle *ehm* missed the turn off I told her to look out for... so we ended up in Burlington... okay, so maybe we both were a bit spacey that morning.

Canada is a beautiful place... it's like Iowa only North and French and has really good food.

Blessed Brother Andre was the doorkeeper of a monastery in Montreal who had a dream of building a Majestic church for St. Joseph, which became the St. Joseph oratory. Michelle is getting a blessing from Brother... yesh she's a nut.

St. Joseph! There was one statue that Br. Andre put into the church while it was being built but had no roof... saying that "if St. Joseph wants a roof he'll get a roof" almost exactly a year later the roof was completed... that particular statue is also in the Oratory near Br. Andre's heart... and that statue is quite weathered.

:-)

Who is that wide mouthed-dragon with my girlfriend?
Michelle wanted to take a few photos of me...
My favourite. :-)
So I invite you all to a brief montage of my life with Michelle starting with Michelle in her purse.

Followed by Michelle in Purse.

And Michelle in purse again...
And Michelle looking for her dinner, in purse...

And Michelle shaking hands with the minuscule purse goblin.