Woke this morning and couldn’t figure out where I was for a moment.. Oh yeah… 8 of us in Hannah’s 1 room apartment in central Montreal..

Deb, Diane and I took a ‘run’ to the Jewish section of town to get bagels. It wasn’t much of a run because the ice covered sidewalks proved too treacherous to run much of the time.. It was good being out , though.. it was in the teens and very windy.. .. it was invigorating to say the least. It was about a 30 minute run/walk to Deb’s favorite Bagel place. it was very cool watching them make bagels.. they made only one kind.. now that’s a bagel store.

We got back to the apartment about 9:30 ish.. everyone was just waking up.. We got off to a lazy start.. eventually we ended up downtown and did some shopping..   then we grabbed lunch at Reuben’s a Montreal landmark .. and home of the epiphanous sandwich..

Gabe had never had a smoked meat sandwich .. I think he liked it !..

Everyone shared a huge peice of their famous cheescake…  I gotta say.. it was not the best retturant for 3 vegans.. (Me,  deb. diane)

Then.. back out into (or under ) the streets of Montreal for more shopping.. Here the guys are helping me shop for sport coats..

The main event of the day was 2 games  of laser tag at LaserQuest… You basically run around an shoot at your freinds .. and strangers with a laser .. it’s indescribably fun.. and somewhat disturbing.   I stopped ot put a SamStone in the maze.. and got shot mercilessly as I was doing it.. Sm would have thought that was pretty funny i think .

The last event of the day (or so I thought)  was dinner at a Lebanese place I like.. The food was great.. and there was curling in the background.. How montreally can you get.. ?

Hanna, Deb and I offered to go get the car rather than have everyone walk back in the 10 degree weather..There was a very unpleasant surprise waiting for us when we arrived. Someone had broken in to Deb’s suburban.. and grabbed on of the bags.. unfortunately it was Sumner’s bag with his passport.. .. They left everything else..   It really felt weird seeing this.. we’d parked on a busy street in a nice part of the city.. Man !..

While the others waited for the police. and cleaned out the glass, Gabe and I wet out and scroungetd for repair material at a grocery store.. .. plastic garbage bags for plastic, shipping boxes for cardboard.. various types of substandard tape.. but we got something that worked.. By placing the patch inside the car, ewe were able to make the car roadworthy..

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Deb managed to bleed all over her registration..

I managed to bleed all over everything …

Around 9L30 we were ready to drive home.. Deb drove the whole way. Diane kept her company. … I slept

Miraculously. the juryrigged patch held for the whole highway trip

Now it’s past midnight.. and we’reall beat.. and a little saddened by the turn fo the day.. Still it was a great trip..

More tomorrow..

nite all, nite Sam

-me