A few pictures of our fabulous (read: insane!) impromptu trip to Montreal for New Year's this year!
So much happened in those four short days. I'll try to include the highlights:
I stupidly assured Brit (any myself) that Sunday was a good day to drive from Virginia to Vermont and Jersey to Vermont, respectively. Except, oh wait, over a foot of snow on impassable roads all over the Northeast. Add an extra 5, stress-filled hours of driving through the snow all over the mountains of Vermont. Never been so happy to be out of a moving vehicle... ever!
Came home to my roommates' 21st birthday bash. Tons of people. Even more alchohol. Some good life decisions and some poor ones were made. All in all, I'm calling this night a success!
Woke up Monday morning to more snow and the prospect of not going to Montreal. Neither of us wanted to drive again after the day before. Luckily, roads cleared up and we were off by 3pm!
Go to Montreal but GPS didn't work with the French street names or area code so we had to guess-n-check our way to the hotel (a hotel which turned out to be a dump, in a hilarious way of course!)
Spent the next day visiting Vieux Port and other parts of downtown Montreal
Notre Dame de Montreal... a-fucking-mazing. Go, just go!
Horse 'n buggy ride! Totally cute and fun
New Year's Eve @ Confusion Tapas Bar I could only guess it'd be good & in fact it was excellent! Go there, too.
Dancing at random bars on St. Laurent Street. Don't judge me for not remembering which ones.
Met lots of crazy guys. Talk about a Canadian meat market.
Spent the next day recovering. Had grandiose plans of hiking to top of Mont Royal and checking out some museums but we didn't get up until 2pm.
Oh and... Canada actually observes New Year's Day as a holiday so everything was closed. Oh and... it was -2 degrees F so neither Bean nor myself could take much walking around.
So cold out we lost feeling in hands and toes within minutes. Best conversation of the entire trip: "It's so cold out that I have snot all over my face, hair, and even my scarf. I can't keep up; I don't even care at this point" ~Bean. "You've never been more attractive to me than this moment right now" ~Lulu (me).
Verdict: Canada is fucking cold as shit. And we'll never live there for that reason alone.
Ended up ordering Thai food and watching trashy TV that night. Montreal has quite an elaborate delivery/take-out system (check it out! Every city needs one.)
Bean got very sick so I bundled up to go to the only place open (random gas station) and grab some kind of druggage.
Headed back this morning bright and early since Bean had to be on the road all the way to Virginia. Not without getting lost by the port... GPS only tried to send me into the water a few times. nbd.
Overall, a very successful, random, & last-minute reunion with a friend whom I had missed dearly. I hope you all have someone you can travel with like this, make mistakes with, and laugh about it all in the end!
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