We caught a mid-morning Metro to Olympic Park where both Debbie and I searched in vain for the cheering throngs as we stepped up on the platform. 
In fact, there were no medals or bouquets of flowers for us!
Although slighted, we decided to visit the adjacent Botanical Gardens with its fountains 
Chinese garden lakes, 
cactus, 
Crown Cactus
Golden Barrel Cactus
Dragon Flies, 
leaves, 
Begonia Rex
Persian Shield
Oyster Plant
gorgeous flowers
Always Afternoon Daylily
Captain Blood Daylily
Embreea Rodigasiana AM Orchid
Maid of Honor Hybrid Tea Rose
Menzle’s Larkspur
Scarlett Daylily
And enormous Koy. 
From there it was a short 1.5 km (just under a mile for you metrically-challenged folks) … which in the 90o+ heat seemed like 5 miles … to the Biodome; four ecosystems (Tropical Rain Forest), Laurentian Maple Forest, Gulf of St. Lawrence and Sub-Polar) under one roof … where 4,500 animals from 230 different species and 750 plant types co-exist.
Capaybara
Whimbrel
Tortoise
Puffin
Scarlett Ibis
Northern Rockhopper Penguin
Golden Lion Tamarin
Otter
Lynx
just to name a few …