{"id":1952,"date":"2011-02-20T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2011-02-20T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:31:25","slug":"saturday-night-strange-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/02\/20\/saturday-night-strange-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; strange ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke this morning and couldn&#8217;t figure out where I was for a moment.. Oh yeah&#8230; 8 of us in Hannah&#8217;s 1 room apartment in central Montreal..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deb, Diane and I took a &#8216;run&#8217; to the Jewish section of town to get bagels. It wasn&#8217;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&#8217;s favorite Bagel place. it was very cool watching them make bagels.. they made only one kind.. now<em> that&#8217;s <\/em>a bagel store.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b005.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b007.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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..\u00a0\u00a0 then we grabbed lunch at Reuben&#8217;s a Montreal landmark .. and home of the epiphanous sandwich..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b023.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gabe had never had a smoked meat sandwich .. I think he liked it !..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b015.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b019.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone shared a huge peice of their famous cheescake&#8230;\u00a0 I gotta say.. it was not the best retturant for 3 vegans.. (Me,\u00a0 deb. diane)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b021.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b022.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then.. back out into (or under ) the streets of Montreal for more shopping.. Here the guys are helping me shop for sport coats..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe main event of the day was 2 games\u00a0 of laser tag at LaserQuest&#8230; You basically run around an shoot at your freinds .. and strangers with a laser .. it&#8217;s indescribably fun.. and somewhat disturbing.\u00a0\u00a0 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 .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b026.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last event of the day (or so I thought)\u00a0 was dinner at a Lebanese place I like.. The food was great.. and there was curling in the background.. How montreally can you get.. ?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b029.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s suburban.. and grabbed on of the bags.. unfortunately it was Sumner&#8217;s bag with his passport.. .. They left everything else..\u00a0\u00a0 It really felt weird seeing this.. we&#8217;d parked on a busy street in a nice part of the city.. Man !..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b031.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b033.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b036.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b038.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deb managed to bleed all over her registration..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b035.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I managed to bleed all over <em>everything<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b039.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around 9L30 we were ready to drive home.. Deb drove the whole way. Diane kept her company. &#8230; I slept<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously. the juryrigged patch held for the whole highway trip<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb1911b\/feb1911b040.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s past midnight.. and we&#8217;reall beat.. and a little saddened by the turn fo the day.. Still it was a great trip..<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke this morning and couldn&#8217;t figure out where I was for a moment.. Oh yeah&#8230; 8 of us in Hannah&#8217;s 1 room apartment in central Montreal.. Deb, Diane and I took a &#8216;run&#8217; to the Jewish section of town to get bagels. It wasn&#8217;t much of a run because the ice covered sidewalks proved too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/02\/20\/saturday-night-strange-ending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; strange ending<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,74],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-laser-tag-breakin","tag-montreal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}