Yesterday was my friend Julia's birthday. She's a huge fan of the Montreal Canadiens. The Leafs play against the Habs every 7 years on her birthday and this year the game was in Montreal. So, four of us hopped on a train and headed to Montreal for the night. Jana, Christine, Julia and I met up at Union station (I met Julia at her place and parked my car near High Park). After a very long wait in line (the train was 30 mins late), we finally boarded the train and actually scored a set of the group seats.
We arrived in Montreal around 5:30pm and headed to our hotel. Julia found us a great deal at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. The great thing about the hotel... it is directly above the train station. Very handy, especially for the morning after a night out in Montreal.
We didn't have much time at the hotel as we needed to head over to the Bell Centre. We didn't have tickets for the game so we needed to head over to the arena as soon as possible to try and buy some tickets. Not a problem (as we expected, but not what everyone else thought - a lot of people didn't think we would be able to get tickets). Our tickets were in the top section, which didn't matter because every seat is great there.
We had a great time at the game, except for the fight that broke out in the stands near us. There were some pretty drunk, obnoxious Montreal fans in front of us that were yelling at a group of Leaf fans. Around the second period (I can't remember for sure) one of the Leafs fans came back with a beer and tripped. One of the Habs fans took a swing, the Leafs fan threw his beer and then security had to be called. Security got it under control really quickly, but the Leaf fan's friends decided to get in on the action by jumping over the four of us. Christine was yelling at the guy, Julia and Jana were holding the guy back and I had a hold of the waist of his jeans trying to pull him off of us. The Habs won 4-1 and we had a great time.
After the game we headed over to the Winston Churchill pub for a drink and met a bunch of guys (it was quite nice that they all kept coming over to us).
The next morning we headed down from the hotel and got in line for the train. Now, this was the day back in December of the huge snow storm that hit Ontario and Quebec. We weren't sure the train was going to leave, but it did. Unfortunately, just outside of Toronto there was a problem with ice on the tracks and we were stuck for around 45 mins. I was a little worried about my car when we finally got back to Toronto. I had left it on the street near Julia's place and there was snow everywhere. I actually couldn't find my car at first it was completely covered (the plows had been past it at least twice and it's just a mini). Luckily Julia brought a shovel down and helped me uncover the car. It took us about 45 mins. All in all a great weekend in Montreal.
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