310720041508 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yesterday was possibly the wettest I've been in a long while ...

I took the metro down to Iles du Parc (Parc Jean Drapeau) to have a look around. Iles Notre Dame and Iles St Helene are man-made islands made out of the dirt they dug out from making the metro system. There is a casino, Formula One racing track, gardens, restaurants, an amusement park, this huge water museum called the Biosphere, swimming area and probably a bunch more stuff that I forget. I was extremely lethargic though and the muggy weather was oppressive. So I wandered about as best as I could and then finally when I'd seen most of it, I decided to get the train home. Just before that, this Moroccan guy asked me to take a picture for him, which I did, of course. After that he wanted to "practice his English" and followed me all the way back to the metro station and onto the train. After I told him which direction I was going, I managed to transfer onto the wrong train, which he followed me onto. Annoyed, I got off at the next stop, hopped off and went over the other side. He wouldn't answer me when I asked where he was going (although that might have been the language barrier), so I got a bit annoyed. I think he took the hint after that and he got off at the next stop (where I had transferred). So I have no idea where he was going. Creepy.

I went supermarket shopping after that, and when I came out it was bucketing down rain. Took me about 10 or 15 wet minutes to get home and I was saturated by then. So I took a shower and then headed out to the Francofolies festival in town. It's a music festival where anything goes as long as it's in French. Again, completely saturated getting there, and ended up dancing in the rain with a bunch of people from the hostel. Ended up at this DJ gig with some of the boys, which was horrible, but full of the weirdest people at the same time. Managed to extract ourselves from there and went to a punkish bar to eat, drink and play some pool. Finally after having enough of seeing Stephan and Mikey try to pick up girls, I got home relatively dry and safe just before the doors closed for curfew. Whew.