Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016

Montreal !

184 days!
Last Friday, Anni and I drove to Montreal!
It took us 5 and a half hours to get there. Fortunately there was no snow or traffic jam or whatever, so it was easy to get there.


Canada is soooo beautiful!
And Canadians are so nice, I can't get over that. When we drove around to search a parking lot, a Canadian stopped next to us and asked us if we need help. Like - we didn't even have to ask for help, he just offered it to us! And at another point, we stood around on the sidewalk and looked at a map to figure out where to go next and a Canadian came up to us and also asked if we need help. Unbelievable!


Friday



We left early from Ithaca and arrived in Montreal around noon.
It's so funny and weird that they speak English and French there, even more French than English.
We walked around Vieux Montreal - they have an old part of the city! Old! A word that Americans usually don't know! It's beautiful there. Montreal is kind of more European than cities in the US.












Quiche
 We went to the cathedral which is beautiful but not really a church ... A church for me has to be cold inside and it has that certain church smell ... Do you know what I mean? I guess it's not old enough for that.


After that, we searched the Underground City - it's like a city underneath the real city. A lot of shops and restaurants, pretty cool. We just couldn't find an entrance! Several Canadians had to help us, but finally we found it.

Fun fact: The drinking age in Montreal is 18 ! So guess what we did in the evening ... :p
We went to a club which was kind of fun. We also found out that uber is illegal in Canada (but not a problem for the customer, only for the driver).



Saturday

It snowed during the night soooo there was SNOW !! And it was so cold. We still decided to go to a park from where you have a fantastic view over Montreal. Well. It was so foggy that we didn't really see anything, but it was still nice. The only problem was there underneath the snow, there was ice. So it wasn't really walking, it was more like ice skating ... :D But fun.

chocolate croissant <3








In the evening, we went to a festival that was called igloofest. They played electro music there and you practically HAD to dance to not freeze to death. When we were back in our room, we were so cold that we blow dryed our legs to get warm again. Hell it was cold.




Sunday

We drove back to Ithaca! It's always more complicated to get over the border back to the US. They're like "Why were you in Canada, For how long, What are you doing in the US, Do you have drugs" blablabla. No, we are not criminals, thank you very much.

In the evening, there was a Superbowl Party at Anni's house. Football madness! So much food. I still don't know the football rules so the most interesting part was the halftime show and the advertisements ^^

But it was a really great weekend and it was so exhausting, but fuuuuun

xoxo
Christin

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