Well I'm home. What a weekend. Montreal just gets better every time.

FRIDAY: Went for supper at La Belle Province and had my first real poutine. Tastes better but it'll kill you quicker too. We also went to a club called Cafe Campus. It was part regular club and part rave. The volume was insane.

SATURDAY: Straight off to the Biodome, even before breakfast. This place is amazing and is right beside the Olympic Stadium. It has like 5 different climates with the plants AND animals. So like a zoo with 5 big pens and all the animals together. We saw a sloth, alligators, bats, beavers, sea cucumbers, starfish, monkeys, huge fish, and of course...penguins. I've decided that penguins were put on earth for our amusement. It's the last exhibit and the most popular. How can you take something that waddles around like that seriously. Got us in the mood for snowboarding too. That would have to wait until after Notre Dame. The Basilica is downtown. The outside is stone and very pretty with snow covering it. The inside will take your breath away. It is so colourful and intricate and just amazing that you have to sit down and slowly digest it. Every pew has a wooden head carved into the end...a different head. There are like a hundred pews too. Just the amount of work and foresight that would have to go into a place like this is mind-boggling. Can't sit too long...must snowboard.

Mont Saint Sauveur is about an hour north of Montreal. We were on the hill by 5:30 or so for some night-boarding. This was Chris's first time so we started off kind of slow. I think that was good because I was a bit rusty. A few good spills later and Chris was pretty much keeping up with us. I've never seen anyone learn so fast. He had a few good teachers though. The hill isn't as big as what I'm used to back home. (The longest run is about the same as coming off the Elk Quad in Fernie) Good time.

SUNDAY: Slept in and went for breakfast at Tutti Frutti at noon. Weird name but awesome food. Along the lines of Smitty's but with more fruit dishes...and crepes! After that we all split up. Kevin, Chris, and I decided to do some shopping around the Eaton Center and St. Catherine's Street. Shopping can be boring when you know you can't buy material things and you can only eat so much. So the mall got old quick but we found a few places where we could buy a lap dance. There was a boobs and buffet place. Food and a strip show, now there's an idea. Unfortunately we did little more than get our pictures taken in front of them. Many cool churches and buildings on the streets of Montreal. I used 3 rolls of film this weekend. Our last stop was at St. Joseph's. I'd been before but other hadn't and we told them they must. It still takes my breath away. The size is incredible. Mom and Dad, you're going to love it.

Unfortunately an action packed weekend like this will leave you quite sore and sluggish on Monday. I'm doing okay. Dmitri is back and feeling fine and we're getting a long great. I think it was just a warming up period earlier. I finally have work. And I have direction. Even after I finish these jobs (probably by this afternoon) I can go and decided what to do next myself. Ah, freedom, too bad you come with responsibility. Well, back to making the bucks. I apologize for the length but you can't condense Montreal into a few sentences. Have a good day people.