Thur 23rd Nov 06
Drove all the way to Montreal in our rented car... quite a neat car with a nice dashboard... i navigated our way to our hotel ok... hahaha... ok la.. the instructions were pretty straight forward... =P Reached hotel in late noon... about 3-ish... Hotel Viger! check in to our cramped.. supposed 2 bedrm hotel rm...unloaded and began our exploration of the Montreal streets... basically the whole trip had lots of walking up and down streets in the super cold weather... since finding parking was a prob... we resorted to walking... it was the coldest we have faced so far... since we haven even started wearing our down jackets in NE... explored the area.. with its churches and cobblestone road... decided on the 1st activity for the day... visit The Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal... Went for the "And then there was light" sound and light show.... it was basically a screening of the history of how the church came about... shown on those canvas screens... and at the last part... the canvas fell... revealing the church... and wow.. it was grand... very pretty!
After that... we decided to go for dinner... at this Chinese restaurant... with this cheena waiter.... then the other highlight for the night.... Le 281.... a male strip club... wahahah... went in.. settled at our table.. ordered our drinks... and watch the show... basically guys with great bodies just came on stage and started stripping to the music... well... it wasn't the totally nude kind... but nonetheless... with some 'exposure'... which get the table of ang moh girls seated in front of us really high! they stood up and dance and scream... we were like... erm... and in comparison.. it made us look really off.. like a bunch of asian sitting there with not much reaction... hahaha...
and when we got back to the hotel... the dumbest thing happen... was taking my shower... and the bathtub just happened to be really rounded.... and with the water... it was super slippery... so i slipped and fell OUT of the bathtub... tat part was funny... and the 2nd funny part was i landed sitting on the heater by the floor... there was a dent on the heater.. wonder if it was from me... hahaha.. but my rm mates were saying she saw it there prior already.. so i guess someone else fell too.. haha... and the shower curtain and rod came down with me... there was such a loud bang tat it startled all my rm mates... they were knocking on the door asking if i am ok... but i din give a response immediately.. cos i was figuring out how to put the shower curtain and rod back... despite the pain in my rear... -.- i guess i was the joke of the trip now....
Fri 24th Nov 06
Had our buffet lunch... where everyone stuff their face full.... and then we ventured a little further away from our hotel... went to the Biodome and Olympic Stadium area... they are just side by side... we din go into the Biodome... which housed exhibits of ecosystems of America... we went into the Olympic Stadium... which was the stadium for the 1976 Summer Olympics.... there were exhibits inside on the various Olympic parks around the world... then it was getting dark pretty soon.. so we decided to head up Mount Royal to see the night lights of the streets of Montreal... It was really pretty too... most of the buildings were low-rise... and u can see across a vast area of just glittering street lights... And to end the day with a bang... and be fair to the guys... we went to a female strip club tonight... called "SuperSexe" It wasn't as sleezy as its name suggest... mainly just women going onto a stage and take off their clothes... and the women weren't really pretty or had super good figure anyway... in comparison.. the male strip club was more interesting and the atmosphere was better.. more happening...
Sat 25th Nov 06
Went to the Biosphere... strolling along the park by the Biosphere where we found a lake or estuary that was frozen over... The Biosphere is a metal structure tat really looked like fullerene... haha... inside it is supposedly some ecosystem stuff as well... din go in cos it cost too much to go in... but the huge metal lattice structure kept us entertained for a while... trying to get diff angles of the sphere... outside and inside...
At night... we drove up to Mount Royal again... but this time we parked our car and took a trail up... it was really dark and we don even have a torch with us... just walked up the trail and saw this lighted cross... a little eerie though....nothing much except walk up in the COLD and look at the night lights again...
