Day 11 - Montreal

Today we woke up in North Bay and spent the first part of the day with Nicola's dad's cousin Cathy and her two kids Bianca and Noah. I know it's starting to sound like Mark has no family or friends anywhere and Nicola is Ms. Popular everywhere we go....just wait until Prince George baby, just you wait. We spent the morning at Cathy's family cottage on Lake Trout where their family collectively has 200 Acres on the lake and it's absolutely beautiful. We took a tour of the lake via Sea-doo and after a quick swim we dried off, went to lunch and headed East.

Next we drove to "Munch-ree-all" as we say it, or "Mon-ree-awwl" as the fancy french folk say it. How come everyone is honking at us every time we drive by one of these red "Arret" signs?....weird, haha just kidding. But seriously this is a very cool city. We met up with Nicola's friend, who she met randomly while in Mexico in 2003, who put us up for the night. Carly, and her boyfriend (or should I say friend a la garcon) Fred showed us all around the city and downtown at night. The weather is perfect (very hot, and quite humid) and we got to see all the neat little bars, cafes, and more stripclubs than you can shake a stick at (Unfortunately I was the only one interested so I was outvoted, damn democracy). After our personalized tour of the city we crashed for the night at their place in the "La Salle" district and will see more of the city tomorrow.

View of Trout Lake from the Cottage

Nicola and I that night at the "Francofolies" Festival, direct translation is "Crazy French Festival"....we agree

The Montreal Expo building. The entire building was destroyed in a fire but the steel structure still remains.