The Unwalked Path of the Mountain

We start off our day at another café. Breakfast was yet again amazing. I’ve learned quite a bit of French lately too. I noticed that if you say “Bonjour- Hi” then they will know you speak English although sometimes I do say “Parlez-vous anglais?” which means “Do you speak English?”. We decide to go to The Mountain which is a huge mountain in the middle of the city of Montreal. The guide book is telling us to take a bus or take the stairs up. Well I couldn’t find either so I decided to just walk up. What an adventure! Really took the off road in between trees and paths just to get on top of the mountain as quickly as possible. This led to me climbing a bit. Animals were really friendly around us as well. Eventually we get to the top and the reward was great although we were insanely tired. Sat back, enjoyed the view, and plenty of pictures. You could see all of Montréal.

There was a bus stop in the corner and we noticed the times that there was one coming up to head back down- perfect! No way had I wanted to walk back down. Next was the underground city. It’s HUGE. I really under estimated it. Hotels, subways, and shopping malls were all connected to this city underground. You could basically never see daylight ever if you didn’t want to. After a few hours of being indoors, we decided it was time to start freezing again outside since the nightlife was starting up. McGill College area is beautiful! Apparently it’s an English college. I wish I knew of this college when I was looking for schools. The Christmas lights really added to the atmosphere. These kids got it good with their malls, clubs, bars, and parties. After some more pictures, churches, eating, coffee, and walking around – we decided to check out the Montreal Casino (Literally just called Casino and that’s it). From what I’ve heard, it’s one of the biggest casinos in the world. At first you walk in and it doesn’t seem that big but after going up 5 floors, it defiantly huge. Since were on a tight budget on this trip, I decided not to play cards or slots. Instead we went to this horse racing machine was we must have spent over an hour easily playing this game. It was such a rush cheering these stupid little horses on the machine. We end up breaking even which was perfect. Within the Casino we had some Smoked Meat, Canadian beer, and fries with gravy. The Smoked Meat and beer was amazing but the fries not so much. Because the subway system stops at midnight, we had to make sure to get back to the Hostel or at least be near it. I’m dead tired. One of these days I’ll carry a pedometer and see how many steps I’ve taken in a day. I’m sure it’ll go off the scale.