We went to Montreal, y'all!
It was my first time there and I have to tell you, despite coming down with a nasty cold as soon as we landed, I loved it. Highly recommend a long weekend there if you can swing it - short flight from Philly, beautiful city, amazing food, nice people.
We went to the Habs/Leafs game on Saturday October 24 at the Bell Center. The Habs were still undefeated and the Center was on fire!
Literally. They had the heat blasting in there like nobody's business. Really different from WFC where it's freezing most of the time. And on top of that, they were giving out Habs scarves! To make you even warmer!
But seriously, what a great place to see a hockey game. Not only because of the intense rivalry between the Habs and Leafs and the size of the Center itself, but because of the amazing fans, and the fact that the entire city is literally obsessed with the Habs and hockey.
I've never experienced anything like that before. The signs on all of the buses say "GO HABS GO!" Habs merchandise is sold at every corner store. Tim Horton's - kind of like Dunks or Wawa - has signs in the window touting NHL trading cards with pictures of Sidney Crosby (of course). At every restaurant, people are talking hockey - the waiters, patrons, bartenders, whoever. Coming from Philly, where the Iggles dominate most conversations, it was awesome as a hockey fan to be in a city and country that is totally, absolutely 100% immersed in the sport.
And I might be biased here but there were easily as many, if not more, female hockey fans at the game than men. I loved it. The woman sitting next to my hubs was the best, she hugged him every time the Habs scored and could have cared less that he didn't understand a word she was saying to him in French.
Not gonna lie, it was fine to masquerade as a Habs fan for a few hours, but my heart wasn't really in it. I'll always bleed Orange and Black.
We made sure to give our Habs scarves to a true Habs fan before we flew back home.
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