Montreal
Not too long ago I had the pleasure of traveling to Montreal and staying two nights with quite a few UNE students, from both the University campus and the Westbrook campus. We left Westbrook around 5 and got to our hotel in Montreal around midnight. Here's what our hotel looked like:
The first night when we got there we walked around, checked out a few different clubs and even met a few people from the Canadian Army that were on a break visiting Montreal from Toronto. After that we returned back to our hotel, and at this point it was close to 4am or even later.
The next day we started our day by checking out the terrace at the top of our hotel and then we went walking about town.
All the people we came across in Montreal were friendly and almost everyone could speak French or English, most could switch to the correct language just based on your appearance. We got some great info of places to go later Saturday night from some employee's working at the Puma store.
Here's a pic of myself and my roomies for the trip, Lauren and Rachel, this was like the fourth time trying to take this pic because we kept messing it up hahaha.
and here are my friends that convinced me to go on this crazy trip to Canada, and I thank them for convincing me to go along because I had a great time.
My good friend Tari who lives down the hall from me:
my other friend Anna who is Tari's roommate:
and my wonderful neighbor Matt who I mentioned is keeping a blog himself earlier this year:
So now that I introduced my friends who were the reason I went to Montreal, let me continue my story. Later on Saturday night we went to another club and walked around the outskirts of Montreal at night, we rode the metro from our hotel to the other districts. However on our way home (at this point it was pretty late) we went to hop on the Metro but it was closed! So we began walking a ways back to the Hotel, but then about thirty minutes later we realized we were walking in the complete opposite direction. At that point in time we were exhausted so we just called a cab, went back to the hotel and went to bed. We did see some interesting things while walking though, like this:
The next day in the morning before the trip back to the states Matt and I walked up the hill our hotel was on and walked through Mcgill. We were on a mission because there was a huge hill in front of us while we were walking and we wanted to reach the top of it. After walking through some paths and climbing many marble staircases to the top, we had the absolute best view of Montreal.
The trip home wasn't too bad, was pretty long and we ended up taking a scenic route through the mountains in New Hampshire:
I would call my first trip to Montreal a complete success. I had a great time, and going to places I've never been is always a exciting, I'm definitely looking forward to going back sometime in the future.
