Saturday was the day trip to Montreal. Woke up at around 3am, left at around 4:15, picked up Betty and the way we went. It was mostly a smooth drive, and Betty kept on talking which kept me up (barely). Going past Toronto, the first stop was at Trenton where I got ripped off by McDonald’s. After more driving, I wanted to go to a service station due to consuming a large orange juice at McD’s, but most of them were closed. There’s one open, and we went there, and I had a chance to take a 20-minute nap which somehow refreshed me and I was able to keep on going. Once we reach the border with Quebec, the traffic was a lot more aggressive. Just the French culture, I guess. Arrived in the city of Montreal at around 11, so surely we would be able to make the 12pm wedding lunch. Well, we only had printed google map to work with, and I made two wrong binary choices, causing us to cross the long bridge 5 times. Even after making the two correct binary choices, I still went the wrong way. Eventually with a lot of help with the map and the compass, we made it just after 12. I tried to stay positive throughout the wrong turns and stuff, and it made for a fun story to tell.

At the wedding reception lunch thing, it was good to meet so many of the old friends whom I’ve not seen for ages. I guess it’s the type of thing you do at weddings. But of course I was assigned at a table with Ingrid and Ed whom I see every week. Samuel and Christine looked great, and goofy as usual. The steak I had was not so good, though, since it overcooked the “medium well”… Anyway, the whole thing lasted until around 4. And despite Jackson’s strong insistence that I stay and rest a bit before I leave, I still left anyway. I simply do not want to stay in Montreal too long, especially with its horrific traffic.

Ok, so I was feeling light-headed when I was heading out to the traffic, but somehow I felt fine soon afterwards. Tried to get some gas in Ontario (the difference between ON and QC gas is a lot), but couldn’t until I get to Cobourg (Nick’s home), where it had the cheapest gas I’ve found along the 401. I stopped at the service station just before heading into Toronto to have dinner. I was planning to have a traditional Wendy’s meal, but was shocked at the significant price increase at Wendy’s. So I went for the more traditional Tim Horton’s meal. Arrived home at around 11:30pm, thus ending the long day where I was in the car for about 15 hours, drove about 1400kms, and had 3 hours of sleep the entire day. Won’t do this crazy thing again. At least not soon.