Back to the grind.

This past weekend I went on the CAOS-organized trip to Montreal. We left Waterloo at 5pm on Friday, and arrived back today just past 8pm. It was an incredibly short trip, but just what the doctor prescribed following an agonizing month of midterms.
We arrived in Montreal at 1 am on Saturday. The bus ride went surprisingly quickly; we stopped only for a half hour in Kingston to get food, and the rest of the time was spent watching movies, listing to music, sleeping, or playing Tetris. Since it was so late, my roommates and I decided to just sleep and start the day off properly.
We woke up in the morning around 8, and after we all got ready, had breakfast at a cafe near the hotel. A bus took all of us to Old Montreal at 11 am. There we went into the Notre Dame Basilica en masse and took pictures in the area. We had absolutely gorgeous weather - it was crisp but not freezing. From there, we wandered back up to St. Catherine's and made our way across all the stores and shopping galleries. My goal for the trip was to go to Simon's, which everyone always talks about. We did indeed make it there, and it took up a couple hours just going through all the stacks of clothes and getting through lineups to the fitting room and cash register! But I walked away with three new tops and a bigger credit card bill.
For dinner, I met up with a buddy from high school. Last time I saw him was probably in first year, so it was cool to see each other and catch up. Afterwards I went back to the hotel to get ready to go out. That also included my first experience using a hair straightener! (Note to self: hair straightener work best when they are plugged in.) Buses came at 8:30 to take us to the first bar, St Sulpice. I was informed that the terrace is awesome, but since it's almost winter, we obviously did not go out onto it. At St Sulpice we had a Waterloo vs Montreal Optometry competition. Waterloo lost the trivia portion of the night, but dominated Montreal squarely in the boatracing event (which I think is especially embarrassing given that they are living in Montreal).
At 10:30 we were shuttled to a different venue, a club called The House. It was a shady kind of place with bad music and rude people, so we stayed only till about 1, and then cabbed it back to the hotel.
This morning we woke up at 9ish and took our time getting ready, packing up, and watching TLC. We went out for brunch and made it back to the hotel just in time to get onto the buses headed back home.
But now unfortunately it's time to get my head back in the game and ready for a new week of classes.