Wow,
What a weekend it has been
Leah and I were in Montreal this weekend because Leah is auditioning for University there (she wants to go to university to become a music teacher, so they want to see her playing proficiency and stuff)

So Friday we drive into Montreal, I'm driving by myself because even though Leah has a license it is just a learner's permit so even with a co-driver she isn't allowed to drive on the highway. So, a 6 hour drive means that ya, it kind of sucks to be me.
So all through Ontario the drive was pretty much fine, a little bit nerve wearing at parts, but it was manageable, lots of kick-up on the road though so I'm going through a lot of wiper fluid. When we stop to get gas, I check all the fluids, including the wiper fluid (see, I am smart and do know how to take care of a car) and it's low, but there is still a decent amount. So, we get back in the car, and drive, and drive, and continue driving and then we get into Quebec, and I don't like the Quebec highways even though I'm used to them from driving there in the summer, but it's getting dark out there, there's construction, lots of kick up, and then, I run out of windshield wiper fluid. Ya, the next 20 km before I found somewhere to pull off the highway to get more windshield wiper fluid, were not fun. And then my google map directions from getting off the highway to finding the hotel really sucked, so even though we found it easily at that point my nerves were just dead. I couldn't find the parking for the hotel, so I just left Leah in the car on the street while I went in to check in, and when the woman tried to explain to me in words how to get around the block (Montreal is the king of one-way streets) to the parking I almost burst into tears, I was just that sick of driving, sick of not being anywhere I knew, sick of just about everything. Then Leah and I got parked, settled in and all of that, and found food and then all was well.

Then yesterday Leah had her audition, I went out with her, then we went out for lunch and she went back to do her theory and I went to explore Montreal a bit (more about that in my craft blog in a little while) and then I went to meet Leah when she was done, and we were both dead so we went back to the hotel. After we got back there we started researching places to have dinner, since we had decided we were going to go out for a nice dinner to celebrate Leah's audition being over and to make the trip worth it.

So, we pull up the Montreal tourism website and start looking for some options. We had a couple ideas of things to do after dinner so we were looking for restaurants that were near the evening plans, and then we decided to look for restaurants that weren't too far from the hotel. We found one restaurant, and it looked pretty cool, it was traditional quebec cuisine which really appealed to both of us, but we were looking for a restaurant that had an online menu so that we knew there was stuff that we wanted and this website only had some pictures and talking about the fact that a lot of their menu changes every 2 weeks. So we kept looking, but we kept going back to this website, because it looks really good and it is what we really want. So, we have it narrowed down between this one restaurant, and one other that isn't that far away from our hotel (because we decided that we are both exhausted) and we look to see where the other restaurant is, to find out that it is kitty corner to our hotel. So with that decision clearly made for us we start off.

We get to the restaurant, and after telling Leah not to bring her dictionary because their website is in both English and French, find out that the menu is about 75% french, and since they use a lot of strange meats like caribou and rabbit and stuff, the menu was just a little bit hard to read and translate so that we knew what we were getting, eventually we decided on food, and when it came it was absolutely amazing, definitely one of the best meals I have had in a really really long time. But it was just funny because it really did seem like it was fate that we end up going to this restaurant.

Then today we did a bit more running around before we left, had breakfast, drove home, and ya, now we're home and the weekend is over, but wow, it was busy, fun, but ya, now I'm definitely tired. *yawns*