i've put it off for a while, but i got nothin to do right now, so i might as well post about montreal. this is not to say that i didn't like or even greatly like going to montreal, it is just that posts like these tend to be very long and tiring, even though they are also enjoyable and whatnot. bring your own metaphor.

so we went up to vermont on friday, to stay at parker's house. the drive up was fine, kinda cramped (5 deep in thad's car, not too bad). we left around 8, got up there around 11. thanks to hawkblog (chad's term, i'm trying it out), we had a lot to talk about - my friends at school read it, nitin! be happy! anyways, we had a good discussion, it was enjoyable, and we eventually got up to parker's house around 11.

parker has a nice house. we watched ice age and played trivial pursuit and look up baseball scores. it was not unlike a normal night at 25 warner. hehe.

next day we woke up and ate some bagels, and left parker's around 12:30. we went to downtown burlington, which jon is quite proud of, and roamed around - ate ben and jerry's in burlington, which is something (no, not the original one). burlington is nice enough, very small but cute, kind of. i don't know, it was fine. hehe.

left for montreal around 2 maybe? i dunno, we got up there at 4 (a little hassle at the border, a little traffic on the bridge, nothing too bad). it was rainy up there the whole weekend, but that didn't put a damper on our fun! ok hit me for that one. but seriously, it was a good time. we got to the hotel a little after 4, so i guess we left burlington earlier than i thought. anyways, we watched the end of the sox-yankees game (sox win in the bottom of the 9th), then we went walkin around the area close to us. we couldn't find a place to change money, and most places were closed, so we just went down to olympic stadium. after some hardcore arguing (read: we didn't do anything), we bought tickets for $5 cdn ($3.50 us!!). those put us in right field, midlevel, not bad at all. they even gave 30% on US currency, which was nice. and we got to hear a great national anthem (o canada is goood). so yeah, i got a couple of hot dogs, a coke, and a bag of chips for like $6.50 US (9cdn), we got great seats for cheap, we chanted "larr-ry" at chipper jones, we saw vlad have the worst misplay of a flyball EVER (the turf made the ball bounce over his head), and we saw the braves score 14 runs (we left in the 8th, it was getting boring). also, we got there early enough to see some braves BP, which was sweet. javy lopez hits the ball far, that's all i'm going to say about that.

so we left the game and went back to the hotel, changed quickly, and went to the casino. after suffering through the traffic there, we changed some more money and the two jons hit the blackjack tables. this particular table, with its $15 cdn limit, did not entice me, so i let them feel it out first. of course, this table sucked complete ass and they both lost money. we ran away quickly to the $5min craps table.

hottest
craps
table
ever

we all won! we meaning thad, me, asian, and parker. ken and phil chose not to play this time, but i am sure that next time we go to a casino they will either not be there or playing right along side us. anyways, the casino was great, it was just like any other casino trip, except we won money, so it was really just like half the casino trips i've been on. hehe.

asian jon had an amazing roll at craps too. my roll sucked, but his was mindblowingly good. that was also cool.

we went back to the hotel, it was around 2 by now, and then we went to bars. i got shitfaced.

then pizza was eaten.

i'm breezing over a lot of details now, because i really don't care. i'm hungry and i wanna go home, which i will soon. also, i realized this post was missing details up and down, left and right, and it just is not doing this trip justice. like, every time i found a french radio station i said "shut up asshole" to the french guy talking. actually, a shitload of french jokes were made, predictably. ken even made a very subtle one involving napoleon.

yeah yeah this post sucked. you should ask someone who went - the trip was awesome. the next big adventure is nyc on the 9th, maybe i won't post about it and just let the pictures do the talking.

anyways, i'm leaving work real early today, and i'll go home and do these things:
1) eat lunch
2) go to the bank
3) go to ghettoglen for a minute
4) get groceries
5) mail something
6) put pictures online

so, get pumped.