I’m extremely tired but that’s alright. Plenty of sleep when I get back home. Met up with Louise from TravelPod at Cafeo who also introduced me to Owen who previously worked at Digg.com and now for TravelPod. Louise couldn’t have picked a better spot for breakfast! Delicious food. Then Louise says to me “Hey, I got something for you.” and pulls out a “limited edition” TravelPod water bottle! She’s the best. 
Next we went to Musee des Beaux Arts. We been looking for this museum for days and I’m glad we saved it for today. They had a special exhibit for Andy Warhol. I always liked his art work but didn’t think he created THAT much. Looking at his gallery, he really was revolutionary. He’s work was really out of the norm creating thousands of album covers, videos, pictures, ideas, and more. Although he never created music itself, his work is looked up to by all musicians. His involvement to the legendary club Studio54 was pretty interesting. After browsing around the museum some more seeing random furniture and paintings, we head out to eat.
For lunch we went to “Mister Steer”. It was basically a New Jersey dinner with the usual crazy old lady serving you. Apparently I ordered a very Canadian meal which was a chicken sandwich covered in gravy and peas on the top of the sandwich. I always thought of sandwich’s as being able to grab it with your hands but it wasn’t in this case. Nevertheless, it tasted great. Also had a beer called literary “Old Montreal”. Crazy lady looked at us as if we were from space for never hearing about it and put much enthusiasm about the beer. The beer didn’t make me explode though as it tasted just like any other beer.
The only reason we are leaving tonight is because we have a wedding to go to tomorrow that we RSV before we decided to come here. We couldn’t take it back since it was a family wedding. We been putting this off the whole week that Teresa needed a dress for the wedding. From some friends at the Hostel, we were told to check out Simons. It was basically a nicer AND cheaper version of Macys. She got a beautiful dress that was very affordable. Glad that’s over with.
We then said our goodbyes to Owen as he had to head out. Teresa, Louise and I walked around montreal with no real plan besides heading down to Dieu du Ciel at about 8. It was still early so we just walked and walked and walked. Just talking about random subjects and walking around. We had some good conversations on our journey to nowhere so it was fun. Eventually we get to Dieu de Ciel. This instantly became my new favorite bar. We ordered Absinthe beer which was about 8.5%. We did receive a warning that it would be bitter from the waitress but we just HAD to try it. It was much more bitter then we expected. Got another two different kinds of beers and we had to get out unfortunately. Teresa and I really didn’t want to leave but we didn’t want to miss our bus either.
We got a cab and headed to our hostel to get our bags. Louise tagged along. Cab ended up being pricier then we expected. We had checked out in the early morning and just left our bags there locked up so we didn’t have to carry it around all day. Teresa and I said our final good byes to everyone in the hostel that we became friend with. We then went to the subway and said our goodbyes to Louise. She’s awesome and defiantly knows how to have fun!
We raced over to the bus station and waited for the bus to arrive. Overall, Montreal is amazing. I really can’t wait to come back. Next time I’ll be coming back during the summer for the Jazz Festival. The whole experience definitely confirmed that I need to travel around the world.
