Montréal: Parting Thoughts

Well, after three days almost constant meetings I am finally on my way home. I wish that I had gotten more of opportunity to see the city of Montréal, but unfortunately there was not any time to really explore. Every day @ 8:30 we got to the office and started the meeting, other than a few breaks and lunch that meeting continued until 6:00-6:30 every day, by the time we finished dinner it was 9:00 and everyone was tired from the day so we all just went back to the hotel. But last night the whole team made it a point to get us out to show us what the city really was like. We ended out meeting in time for “cenq au sept“ (five to seven, or happy hour) and the whole team went out for a few drinks, We had a great time and we got a chance to meet them all in a social setting, which I think makes the whole working together think a whole lot easier. I got the opportunity to practice a little French with one of them, and I was fairy impressed that he could understand the few phrases that I can remember from French class in high school. The only problem was I apparently asked him if he could go the bathroom instead of asking if I could go. He got a pretty good laugh out of that.

After we had finished off the free pitchers Eric, the team lead in Montréal, decided he was going to show whoever wanted to go what the nightlife really was about. I wasn’t going to pass up that chance, so a few of us piled into the cars and we went downtown to “The Radio Lounge” for Celebrity night. It was not anyone that we would know but because Quebec is the only French speaking province the regularly produce their own television shows they have a lot of local celebrities. We got there pretty early, 9:30 or so, so nobody was there yet and we claimed out spot in the corner of the dance floor. The crowd began to roll in, the drinks began to flow, and the party really began. It was amazing, everyone was having a great time, and everyone was dancing (well at leas bouncing up and down) after awhile you cannot help but to dance. Now I don’t spend a lot of time in dance clubs (by not a lot I mean none) so I never dance, but for some reason it all came out last night and I was in the middle of it all with no reservations. It is not very often that you see a bunch of geeks with control of a large portion of the dance floor, an amazing sight! The “scenery” was very good as well and a few times the waitresses began dancing on the bars Coyote Ugly style. Mmmm, girls dancing on the bars… Ok, back on track, How come that does not happen in Durango? Oh yea, there are no dance clubs. I definitely don't think that I will become a regular but it was definitely fun. I don’t know how many drinks I had but if we were back at elevation I think I would have been dead, Pretty amazing that oxygen stuff. We headed back to the hotel around 2, only to get up 3 ½ hours later to catch a plane. It was a wonderful finale to the trip and I am glad that I went. Hopefully soon I get the opportunity to go back and maybe see the city and the area by day, or at least with the sun out, it was cloudy, cold and dreary the whole time we wert here (Except the day we got there and this morning, nice timing huh?).

Well, I cant seem to get into this post (you can probably tell) so I am going to stop here.