December 27th, The Departure:
- 7 hour drive, not 5 1/2 like mapquest said
- Byron, Me, Shannon, Bridget, Ian, Mike, Sean, Australian hostel friend, South Korean girl making jokes about North Korea, Mexican hostel mate
- Moes for dinner in NH, cheap gas, cheap liquor
- M Hostel – fridge, clean, couches, big screen TV, AWESOME, downstairs bar, breakfast buffet, in Gay Village area
- 1st Night:
- Walked the village, past gay saunas and sex shops and drag queens
- Stopped in McDonalds to regain warmth, snow everywhere, regrouped at hostel fro more warmth
- Met Dutch boys, went to karoke bar up the street, even took out my contacts before bed!
December 28th:
- Walked through the old port and village
- Saw iceskating and huge mounds of snow
- Lunch at a mirco brewery – poutine (yum!)
- Chinatown, grafitti everywhere, tour of Sean’s radio station
- Picked mike up from the station
- Ian sick
- Sean took us to Schwartz’s for famous canadian smoked meat, pickle, and cherry cola
- Walked to hostel, chilled, met other hostel mates
- Walked to Sean’s favorite local bar for drinks and dance
- Crying about the tragedy of Canadian Twitter
December 29th:
- Starbucks, drove to Mont Royal, incredible ciew of entire city covered in Snow
- Saint Joseph’s huge commercialized church
- Much colder today
- Lunch at L’avenue with trippy neon graffiti bathroom
- Montreal Casino for 1st gambling experience ever
- Hit the road, sassy USA border woman
- Huge snow storm, saw 10 cars in ditches
- Byron got us safely to East Hampton where everyone slept over
- Island Coffee breakfast in the morning