Today I attended a breakfast for new hires at my company. We met up with the head honchos of the company and the other new hires. It was an hour of pure small talking with strangers. Not my idea of a cup of tea but I played along. By about 30 minutes, I started running out of things to small talk about. For a few minutes, we stood looking at each other well aware of how awkward the moment was. Small talking brings out the worst in everyone (even myself) especially when they are forced to do it. Forced laughter, awkward grins, and ass kissing was everywhere. uggh.
The next day, we headed to Montreal. We managed to arrive there around lunch time after managing to miss every exit possible along the way. At this point, Brazil had just won the world cup, and the streets were jumping jumping (Destiny's child style) with brazillian fans. We then ate dim sum in chinatown before heading down to the St. Laurent rapids for some white water rafting. It was everybody's first time so we were all pretty stoked about trying it. By the end of the adventure, we were all soaked from head down. With the sun beating down on us, everyone managed to dry off pretty fast. We then walked around old montreal and ate dinner at a mexican restaurant, wandered the streets for awhile, and finally headed up to Mt. Royal before leaving for Ottawa after.
On Canada day we did the typical touristy things like visit museums, and art galleries while the streets were packed with patriotic canadians. Click here to view the photos from the weekend.