Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Montreal in a nutshell.

Last weekend I was in beautiful Montreal for work BFF’s wedding with Leah and Nat (as previously mentioned here).

Although it was my first visit to Montreal I couldn’t stay long or see too much of the city but I was okay with that because my main priorities for the weekend was to see THIS GIRL and to be there for the most memorable day of Work BFF’s life (so far).

Mission accomplished.


The wedding ceremoney was at the most breath taking church (cathedral?) I have ever seen!


And then once all the “proper” traditional wedding stuff was done, it was a wedding reception (party) that only Work BFF could have planned.


So remember how I mentioned before that I wasn’t able to go to the wedding because of the crazy costs of the flights and how we got a great deal with some buddy passes from our friend who works for an airline and was going to the wedding as well? Well… there is one stipulation with buddy passes. You fly stand-by.


So 3am rolls around and we are all at the wedding looking something like this…


…and making plans to go to some type of after-hour-shin-dig when we get a phone call from the friend who arranged our flight.

“uhhh…. Guys…. Were not getting on the flight I originally thought. Change of plans. We need to be at the airport at 4:30”.

Crap.

So we rush back to the hotel (en route Leah has a drunken french argument with the ass-hole cab driver - awesome) and throw our stuff in our suitcases. We packed in such a rush that I left my bathing suit in the closet. Grab another cab and hurry our drunken and tired selves to the airport.

We catch a flight to Toronto.
And then a flight to Regina.
And then a flight to Calgary.

FYI – a flight directly from Montreal to Calgary only takes about 5 hours. We travelled for almost 12 hours.

After what seemed like the longest day of my life, I went home and slept for 13 hours straight.
Lesson learned – Paying for cheap buddy passes? Awesome!
Flying Stand-by? Not so awesome…

But I got to be at the blessed union of these 2 amazing people so all in all it was worth it.



5 comments:

Angela Tolsma said...

last two pictures are awesome! Glad you had fun! Standby would suck

Anonymous said...

I hate standby. glad you had fun!! Love the photos. That cathedral looks amazing!!

Anonymous said...

I think the very drunk at wedding to the ending up in Calgary after 12 hours was 1/2 the adventure!!

Leah said...

It was hands down one of the best weekends of my entire life! I had a blast and it was fate that it happened.

I miss you.

tera said...

How fun! I've always wanted to go to Montreal.
Those pix should be blown up and made into posters! :)