Following the sessions today we went to the opening reception for the exhibition hall – which you mostly go to for the free food and one free drink (and who can argue with free foods made of liver? I for one have no arguments there, but apparently several others do which means only one thing – more liver for me!). We felt compelled to talk to the exhibitors, though – I mean – it was their reception and we were eating their liver for goodness sakes.

And I’m glad we talked. We may have found an interesting solution for all of our database needs and it was truly a wonderful demonstration. So if we come back from the conference with nothing else – we have info on this company. Oh. and liver breath.

But Sara and Anne Marie are less enamored with the variety of things you can create with organ meat so we set off into Montreal in search of food.

And we found food. And hockey. Because it appears that the Canadiens were playing Boston tonight and we managed to find a brewpub/sports bar with lots of hockey loving folks. The menu being entirely in French made ordering an interesting prospect, and ultimately Sara ordered dessert as that was the safest thing. Anne Marie and I had croque monsiuer, which I haven’t had since I was in France so it was a nice remembrance of things past.