Party in the city where the heat is on...

I'm in Miami. I still can't really believe it...it's just like the movies. Perfect blue skies, bright sun, people walking the streets in bikinis and the such. We awoke at 3am this morning to catch the 6:30am flight from wintery Montreal, arriving to a beautiful cloudless Miami morning. We were greeted at the airport by a local friend of mine whom I met whilst in Hawaii last year, and he drove us around, showed us some cool areas...the most astounding thing was definitely the waterfront properties, one of which has a yacht parked outside it that is longer than the house itself. Some of the wealth here is re-donk-ulous. We had lunch at a Latino themed bar/restaurant where the waitresses dress in skimpy, skin tight leopard print outfits and dance on the bar and a guy walks around with dancing parrots on his shoulders. Crazy.

The next 4 days here are sure to be incredible, but I'm also going to miss Canada so much because the last week there was so much fun. On our first full day in Quebec City, we joined an informal tour of old town organised by the hostel, and met a bunch of really cool people (we would later be known as 7 Aussies + 1 German!). We cruised the city together, visited the Montmorency Falls and (minus the German) successfully disgraced Australia on an all night pub crawl. We outdanced and outsang all the other foreigners til 5am...which Pegs and I payed for the next day by not waking up til 3pm. It was cool...the places ranged from small, typical Quebec pubs, to ones that looked like a cave, to a castle. The party ended with a bag of chips in the hostel's TV room.

The groove train continued on into Montreal, where the original gang plus a Swiss guy met up for a civilised dinner before dancing the night away, the 3am pizza run and walking the streets of Montreal to the bus station. We managed to wake up at a reasonable time the next day, thankfully, and also get some sight seeing done over the next few. Downtown, The Montreal Olympic Statium & Biodome, Botanic Gardens, Old Montreal, Hotel de Ville, Mont Royal, were visited via a lot of walking. We also went to watch an ice hockey match! Toronto Maple Leafs vs Montreal Canadiens...it was so fun and I also managed to finish like a litre of coca-cola. Well done on the skinny campaign, Manda. :P

Well, that's all for now, not sure when I'll be able to write again soon (but I should be able to still check email so keep them coming), because we start the 3-week Central American tour in 4 days time...craft markets here I come! And by the way, I'll be home on October 31. Can't wait!

see you bye.