Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Montreal Trip

Montreal was fun.

What surprised me the most was how much people complained about having too much meat in the lunch wraps. Guys, if you didn't want meat, how come beef, turkey and ham all ran out as fast as penguins swimming in water?

Talking about penguins, think they are clumsy? Wait till they hit water! Now it's understandable to me why humans learn how to swim from frogs not penguins, who also have four limbs. Penguins don't swim, they FLY in water. Once they dive in, penguins barely move their bodies. But somehow penguins manage to slide elegantly through water, too fast for you eyes to follow. They are like bullets, occasionally shooting out of the water. During the trip, one penguin was so friendly that it kept pushing against the glass to reach us! No matter how you interpret that image, penguins were the highlight for many people in the Biodome. And of course the fish was amazing too. Watching gigantic fish swim was like watching fossils move, the sense of which draws you into deep fantasy about all the lives on earth. Some people also liked the poisonous frogs; others liked the monkeys and bats. Nobody seemed to like the turtles, probably because they hid themselves too well.

After the biodome, some people and I went to the contemporary art gallery. It turned out that most people's minds weren't as contemporary or fashionable as they thought. I ended up understanding maybe five eleventh of ONE of the many art pieces displayed. And I don't think many people actually did better than me! All of you who laughed at people who chose to go to the archaeology and history museum, think twice next time!

Shopping time! Wasn't big for me but was big for most people. It was some sort of a festival downtown Montreal on that day, so we had to squeeze through the shopping frenzy. Imagine people as pie fillings, and that pie probably exploded in the microwave. After all, the shopping results truely dazzled me. Some one bought nunchakus, some one bought a wooden stick that was supposed to be a sword. And then there were the sunglasses-sunglasses having bars instead of glasses. I don't know if they are supposed to resemble what you see from a prison cell or if they use rocket science so complicated that the sun would get frustrated and look away. Who said engineering was hard? The engineering professors probably studied that because they couldn't understand fashion.

Nice trip ended with a nice pizza dinner. And everyone went to sleep surprisingly fast.

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