Headed to Beaver Island

So....I know it's been over a week since my last entry. I'm sorry about that. For the past several days I've been trying to download pictures from Boston to the blog with plans to write an entry after the pictures are downloaded, but I'm having no success. When the pictures aren't downloaded after 1 - 2 hours, I give up on blogging all together. I decided today I would write an entry first then try to download pictures second!

We've been travelling for a quite a while now with a short break in Montreal, Ontario. My last entry was just two days after leaving Boston. Nothing exciting happened while travelling to Montreal. My daily schedule doesn't vary much. I do my watches from 10:00 - 2:00 twice a day, eat, work out, yoga, watch movies, read (I've been doing a lot of reading!!), and sleep. So, nothing really to report from Wednesday to when we arrived in Montreal on Friday.

Friday, we arrived in Montreal!!! It was a nice break from couped up on a boat for 5 days. We got there in the afternoon and got ready to go out and about. There was huge International Jazz Festival going on while we were there, so the girls wanted to go check it out. A Russian band, Billy's Band, that Tasha wanted to see was playing, so we went to check that out. The captain made dinner reservations at a sushi restaurant for later in the evening, so we met the boys there at dinner. Of course they showed up drunk and an hour late.....typical dudes!! Also, they were itiching to go to a strip club, so after dinner the girls went one way while the boys went another.

We went back to a place called Old Town which was really close to the boat and found a French Irish bar. Everything was in French (Montreal is French Canada), even the lyrics to the Irish songs!! It was very laid back and quite interesting. We stayed there until about 3:00 then made out way home. The next day Tash, Blake, Phil, Jaz, and I went to see Totem Cirque de Soleil. It was an amazing show!! After that Blake, Jaz, Hannah and I went for a walk around while Tash and Phil went grocery shopping for the boat. Later in the afternoon we went back to the boat to help unload groceries. After the groceries were unloaded, Tash, Hannah, Phil, Blake, Jaz, and I went to dinner in Old Town. The boys were hellbent to find a club, supposedly Montreal is known for its clubs. We walked in circles looking for a club, and when none were to be found, Tash and I went back to the same place we had been the night before. The next morning I discovered that the boys were successful in finding their club.

On Sunday we had to be on deck at 5:30 am to leave Montreal at 6:00. We went through about 6 or 7 locks which were about 30 - 50 feet and everyone had to be on deck to mind the fenders. It was a very interesting process at first, but after lock #3, it began to get a bit annoying. Especially when I kept getting woken up because we were going through another lock.

Monday, was a relatively easy day. We were cruising through Lake Ontario most of the day. Yesterday, we started going through locks at 5:30 am (remember my watch ended at 2:00 am, so I got about 2.5 hours of sleep at the most). We didn't finish going through locks until after noon, so then it was my watch again until 2:00 pm. Oh, goodness I was like a zombi, and I was a bit delirous! I finally went to sleep after my watch and slept for about 4 hours until the trip got bumpy and I was bouncing up and down in my bunk. I got up then and decided to try again after my next watch. When my watch ended last night at 2:00, I went straight to bed and didn't wake up until 9:00.....today I'm feeling 100% and am ready for a hard work out :) We're going through customs today in about an hour. I'm planning to work out after customs, but I just heard that two years ago when they went through customs, it took 6 hours - this could be interesting!

Well that's about everything. I'm going to start a new book. I just finished The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks and am about to start Sense and Sensibility. I also need to finish the movie Invictus! So much to do!! I'm going to put more photos on facebook, so check that out if the blog won't upload.

I check in later!!