To Montréal and back again.

So for a little while we'd been wanting to go to Montréal for something called Festival Kinetik. It's an industrial music thing that goes on for four days which is pretty cool in itself. But wanting to go and actually going are two very different things considering we needed a way of getting there, he needed time away to go there in the first place and we needed a place to stay. So let's see... it started on the 14th, a Thursday, and we pretty much put together the Monday prior the leave time, bus tickets etc. Don't even speak to me about the hotel issues. It's a wonder I didn't kill anyone over that insanity. All in all it could have been a worse price I guess.

After all that I found myself in Montréal after a 3 hour bus ride, not too bad, good to be back. Wait, what's this? I have to be the translator? Dangit! Oh well, gets me back into speaking french I guess... was tough to kick start it again since I had to actually take a moment or two prior to opening my mouth to remember what some simple words were it's been so long. Never had the need to use it unless the odd french family came through my workplace or goofing off with a coworker.

Wait, what was I rattling on about? Oh yeah, trip.
Day 1:
Cab ride to hotel, yadda yadda, thinking up ways to maul desk clerk, blah blah blah... ah yes there we go. We looked up again on Google maps where the venue for Kinetik was, Usine C, 1345 Rue Lalonde. Simple enough right? Well, yes it was. Thing is we forgot what the surrounding streets were, went walking for an hour+ instead of what should have taken less than 15 minutes. Finally we find someone who actually thought to pull out a MAP to figure out how misplaced we were. Who knew that maps could do that? Anyways we made it to see Terrorfakt just in time by some miracle... and surprised a friend of ours who didn't think we were even going this year. :P We left early though due go being tired, very very hungry from not eating since the day before, and sore from all the walking from Kansas to the Emerald City.

Day 2:
The next two days we didn't have tickets for, we could have gotten for Phase 3 but decided to save it for Phase 4 if by a long shot we could get tickets for a sold out show since a few were being released the day of. Thus, we spent two days wandering Montréal and sight seeing, eating poutine (mmm... fries, gravy and cheese...) and doing a little shopping. Aka: spending 2 hours in Games Workshop later on. Now, I normally dislike shopping in general. I mean, wandering a crowded shop, with clothes and junk there that 90% of it you know you'll either hate, and the 10% you DO like it waaaaay out of your price range by a decimal point and a universe or three, but we went into a Le Chateau and saw a dress I liked. That was fine and all, it was even on sale... for... oh yeeeeeah that's NOT a sale. @.@; He got it for me though after I tried it on... and even said to pick him out an outfit so we can find a place to wear them to. :3 So that was kinda fun...ny. I doubt the cashier woman there ever ran across a man so... meh about what he wears. She was either frustrated he'd agree to whatever, or glad to have a human doll. :P After all that though, he ended up in a black dress shirt, red tie, pants, vest and a leather jacket he didn't want to leave in the store lol.

Also, the underground... is... well... a bit crazy. What should have taken us a 20 minute walk from where our hotel was to the Eaton Center took us about 2 hours to navigate thanks to a map that made almost no sense unless you spent a day studying ever minute detail of it. In which after that little mishap we knew it like the back of our hand. :P

Day 3:
More wandering around the underground on account of a downpour that ran us out of Chinatown. Every single shop there suddenly had umbrella stands open at the front of their stores as if by magic at that point. Anyways, back to the mall, coffee/tea and food later we met up with our friend to confuse him with the underground... then more shopping and a new camera later (the zoom broke itself. sigh.). So getting ready to go to dinner was the easy part, except for the tie. I kept tying it in the wrong knot instead of the Windsor so we had the YouTube videos open, tying and retying it over and over. Oh yeah, whoever thought ties were a good idea needs to really be shot. With an RPG. At close range. But yes, easy! It was deciding where to go that was the tricky part. I wanted no part in choosing where to go, since it was his date idea to take me to dinner I thought he should follow it through. :P Poor guy... the menus online for these weird places were all in french, til there was an English translation button. We ended up going to The Keg lol.

Day 4:
So yes, the final day of Kinetik. The doors to Usine C open at 2 PM and since we're up early we go wandering the streets for a bit checking out the stores, getting some food and whatnot before we could see about getting tickets. Yay for urban camo. So 2 rolls around and we get there, the place is almost empty and we ask about tickets... when they say "oh, we'll be releasing 35 of them at 5PM if you're lucky." Oh, that's nice, but we're here NOW, you have tickets... we have money... sigh. So we went there early and all we got were 2 tshirts. All in all we got there and by another miracle, nabbed 2 of the last 4 tickets they had on hand at the door. In the end we stayed there from 5PM - 3:30 AM give or take. Good times all round, next year should be even better since we might actually have one of those things I'd heard about before. A plan. :P We left the next morning to come back home.

So that's about it for our trip I guess. Insanity. Confusion. Fun and awesomeness. Funny thing though, our cat apparently missed us so much if we leave the room for what she considers is too long and she starts meowing/crying like someone's swinging her by her tail. =\ Plus she's gained the habit of trying to share my pillow at night. So, I have a furry neck warmer at night. She's lucky she's cute. :P

That's it for now! (Happy hun? :P You got your post.)