Bierfestival!

Went to the Mondial de la Bière saturday. Was a bit overly confident, and just headed to the Old Port, where it used to be. A call to hub_ later, things were sorted out, and I was having some Holsten Premium Lager on the lawn of the Windsor Station. Some photos included in the full post...

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Biking, photo, being a lobster, burning some rubber...

On sunday, goodness was to be had. First, a plan hatched at the last minute with ayria to go bike (for me) and rollerblade (for her). I broke my bike's chain, thankfully not too far from Atwater, where there is that bike shop on Notre-Dame. Then went all the way to the end of the path, to the René-Levesque Park, where we went to the tip of the point.

Got back home a few minutes before pdage arrived, with whom I went to join emjayne at a café in the old Forum to discuss photography. As usual, pdage had plenty of the crazy stories. We discussed some technical bits, as well as how to run a depanneur properly. I wished we would have had time to discuss some of the more business-related aspect of things, as I'm thinking of doing some photography work on the side. Was fun, brought back some good memories!

Then, I planned and executed a kidnapping, involving chouriço sausage and keeping my cool in the face of the nice sunburns I inflicted on myself on my bike ride, and had now became horribly apparent. I happened to have blue underwear, and thanks to my slightly longer biking shorts, I could do the french flag!

Today, woke up to some nice summer rain and thunder. :-)

Tonight, decided that life wasn't worth living anymore and took ayria for a bit of driving lesson with the manual transmission. She did pretty well, so I progressively applied some more pressure. Need practice, as everyone does, but she did no worse than I did my first time. Celebrated with some ice cream, of course!