More On Montreal

Or maybe I should say "Moron Montreal", because I speak absolutely no French. I should get on that. I really would love to learn, although I am afraid my head might explode if I start while I am still working on German. Ich bin eine Dummkopf.

Anyway, Montreal. Montreal was great! Such a cool city. I've only been once before, for Nationals in 2003. I didn't exactly get to see a lot of the city, since we were playing for most of it, and I didn't have any extra time. I do remember the party up the mountain (or should I say "mountain"?), which was well done. Kristin and I walked up the mountain the first day, and I wasn't really sure I had been there before until we got to the top. Inside the building, we had a hilarious conversation about squirrels - me asking about the weird, gargoyle squirrels in rafters the building, but not really specifying what I was talking about. Naturally Kristin thought I meant live squirrels in the park, and thought "why are there so many squirrels here?" to be a strange question. If you're ever in the building on top of the mountain in Montreal, look up, and look for the squirrels.

Montreal is not especially where I thought it was. It's about 6 hours from Toronto, which is where I had flown too. I didn't think Montreal was 6 hours from Toronto, because....well, Calgary and Vancouver are 10/12 hours apart, and that's about as good as it gets.

Other highlights from Montreal: getting to meet Kristin's family (that I hadn't met already), meeting friends, seeing old friends (no, I didn't think this was possible either, since I had only been to Montreal the once, but it turns out I know more people in Montreal than I thought I did. I used to do CUPA stuff with Fish, and of course play against her a lot also. We would have seen even more people I know, if they didn't have day jobs. Fuckin' day jobs.), dessert, running (despite the fact that I am an antisocial runner. this is for the exact same reason as why I roll off of the field, away from all the people, if I am hurt in ultimate), breakfasts, dinner at a fabulous restaurant (they let you bring your own bottle of wine in! for free! brilliant!) and much more.

ps. I think I said this already, but I didn't take any picture. I guess we were having too much fun.