Montreal...

I`m in Montreal! (as you should have guessed from the title). life was a little boring, with not working and not having any money, so «i decided to entertain myself by travelling around visiting people instead!

So a couple of weeks ago, I caught a ride to Ottawa to see my family! Now, you have to understand, I didn`t actually go anywhere near downtown Ottawa, my fmaily lives in a farmhouse west of Ottawa. My cousin and his wife and 4 kids live in the upstairs, and my aunt and uncle live downstairs. SO normally, there`s 8 of them living there. When I was there, my other cousin and 5 of her 6 kids were there too! So - there were 9 kids, 7 of whom were between 3 and 10! Plus the toddler (18 months) and the baby, oh and me the visitor! lol. It was slight chaos, but the good thing about that many kids is they keep themselves entertained mostly! Still, when my cousin`s husband and last kid arrived, it was 7 adults, 10 kids in a 4 bedroom house! slightly squished.

Last week - i headed up to Peterborough - lake country - to see another cousin of mine. She`s originally from Whakatane, and even used to babysit me when i was little, but she`s been in Canada for 15+ years now as a teacher. Her house is inthe outskirts of town in a beautiful area, 5 mins walk from the beach! I was soo jealous!

On saturday I went to a theme park, Canada`s wonderland! Fun times running around going on rollercoasters andsomehow geting myself talked into going on a ride that simply went up and then down into a giant puddle so you get soaked. That`s all. Just up and dunk. Honestly, I thought there was going o be a rollercoaster involved to make up for the soaking! But no, apparently not. Although, it is kinda scary being at the top and then realising this is the last moment you will be dry for a few hours! Good thing i was about 28 degrees. Pity we thought it was going to rain, so were all wearing jeans.

Now, I`m in Montreal. I arrived here on Monday, and am leaving on friday to go down to Boston to see my friends from Uni, then NYC for the weekend umm yeah, so doing the tourist thing for the next while, then onto Spain in 4 weeks! Ahh exciting!

Montreal is .. hot. And fun. Apparently the western world`s 2nd largest fench spêaking city. After Paris (and I guess a whole lot of non-western world places - africa?). As you can see from my many typos, the keyboard is a bit different here.

But overall very fun, and there's lots of outdoor festivals, so have been out drinking at 11pm at night (when it`s still 30 degrees), very european!