TGIF!

Friday James picked me up from work at 5:00 since it was on our way to our evening activities. We walked about 40 minutes to get to downtown Montreal and the Place Bonaventure, the site of the World Beer Festival. Admission was free, but each 3-4 oz. sample of beer cost between $1-$5, so we were tapped (haha!) pretty quickly. I stuck to the fruity ciders, whereas James blew half of his drink tickets for the heavy Vermonster. We had a good time though, and there were TONS of people there that were very entertaining to watch.

Following the beer festival we went by the FrancoFolies festival and heard some French music, then walked through the Formula 1 Grand Prix festival, and ended our evening with the highlight of our time so far in Montreal--Schwartz's deli. Schwartz's is a Montreal landmark, and serves massive smoked meat sandwiches in a no-nonsense manner. We had to wait outside in a line for about 30 minutes, but were eventually ushered inside to the primo location for eating--the counter. The staff was extremely nice, and our buddy Mikey made sure that we got the full Schwartz'z experience. The sandwiches were great, and I'm sure we'll return there sometime again before we leave this great city!