Who wants to go back to school?

Notice that YOU is all-caps.  So tell me, what can it do for you?

Pick any sentence and explain its meaning to an audience.  Good luck.

These two fascinating seminars would be a great way to restart that academic career!  Who doesn't love sparsity and electronic structure analysis?

All Aboard!

There are so many...

I suppose it's like the paid dog-walkers here.  Babysitters have so many children that they just load them into giant strollers.  I saw one that had six children in it and one tiny lady struggling to move down the sidewalk.

A good example of a company meeting a need.

Semi-Familiar Products

I know a few people who would want this.

Not as many who would want this.

Grandma's favorite game?

Puerto Rico

Cruising around.

Leaving our remote island.

Interesting boat name...

Apparently cockfights are legal here.

Not a bad view from my balcony.

Not bad at all.

Food Batch

Mint smoothie.

Looks exciting!

I didn't want to cut it and ruin the flower.

Green tea cake.

Bread, served with cold olive/tomato sauce/oil mix.  Different.

Not sure why I took this.  However, it's probably the first pasta I have posted since I don't normally eat pasta.

Who wants some?  What might be floating beneath the surface?

Ice creams trucks make such fun cones here!

Indian potato chips.  Basically, chips with Indian sauces instead of salsas.  Good concept.

German "nut corner" from the German Bakery.

Six different ceviches!  Paradise in Puerto Rico!

Tostones for the ceviche.

Snapper mofongo.  Better than what I get here in NYC.

Puerto Rican creme brulee.  Not sure what makes it Puerto Rican.

Vaca Frita.  One of my two favorite Caribbean dishes.

Chips

While waiting for my breakfast, I decided to take pictures of all the chips around me in the store.  What ever happened to Doritos, Fritos, and Ruffles?

What about regular tortilla chips?  Who eats cassava?

Well, I do like hummus.

What's wrong with normal oil?

Popped edamame?!  What?

Pomegranate chips?  Ridiculous.

And now the hummus chips makes an appeared with quinoa.

Creamy ranch soy?  Chips from Hell.  Falafel chips sound okay.

Rice and beans.  In chip form.

At least the shape is useful if not the flavors.

Montreal

Oui oui!

They like to mix Guinness and cider up here.

Nice accents.

Why not live in a castle?

They really like murals here.

A mushroom store.

Mushroom cookies.  Yes, they taste strongly of mushrooms.

Maple syrup/maple candy/maple anything store.

Because square rice is so much cooler than round rice.

View from my hotel room.

Notre Dame outside.

Notre Dame inside.

Canada has better mailboxes than we do.

Not the Canadian breakfast I had pictured.  (It's actually an English breakfast.)

Maple syrup laid on ice to freeze it.  Homemade popsicles!

My Easter service was here.  I should have learned French first.