Montreal Day 1 7/2

This morning we left Quebec City and headed to Montreal. On the way there we hit a McDonald's for lunch. Let me tell you. There is only a 5 cents difference in our money (1 American equals 1.05 Canadian) but they are wicked expensive. Two values meals cost us about $20. Ummmm what? And I read an article in Quebec that says the avg Canadian only makes $39,000 a year. Who could afford to live in Canada? 

Anyways Montreal is a hot mess. Construction everywhere. Lack of signs. Random lane merges.  Luckily when I was driving the traffic was not bad. Our first stop was the casino. Hello dumbest layout ever. It took us quite some time to find the craps table. They have two. And only one was open. So after not playing for awhile we decided to go back to the hotel. 

Let me tell you about this said "Bed and Breakfast". Usually BBs will provide a real breakfast. Not this place. Also the parking lot designated for this BB was two blocks south. The lot was an old college building that was not abandoned and run down. Oh and it was bext to gangster park. Previous BB stayers have had their car broken into here. Ummmm no. So since we were going to take a taxi once to the casino and once back we did it a little different. We unloaded our valuables into our room and We drove to the casino, lost some $, and then left the car there overnight. Since its a 24 hour casino we figured we would be fine. 

When we took a cab from the casino we had him drop us at Notre Dame. We could not go inside at the moment bc mass was happening. So we snapped a couple pics and knew we'd come back the next day. We grabbed a quick bite (thank you subway being in Canada) and headed to the hotel to game play our evening. 

We found a great beer bar called L'amere á boirè. It was the cheapest place for beer we had found in Canada. Half liters for $5.44. Yes please!!!!! Of course they were out of the helles so I "settled for their pilsner. And by settled I mean loved every drop of the eventual liter I drank! 

We then proceeded to the brewery across the street. We had a beer each. They claimed to have a blonde beer. However, it was 100% a wheat beer. And while I like wheat beers not at this moment. 

So after hating Montreal to start I didn't mind it too much by the end of day 1. Biggest complaint is I couldn't eavesdrop of convos bc I don't speak French!