I visited Montreal last weekend for the first time...

AND IT WAS AWESOME!! Just wanted to say you guys have a spectacular city. My girlfriend took me there for my birthday, and we ended up staying an extra night because we enjoyed it so much.

So much so, that we have been frantically searching for a way we could end up living there. Anyone hiring in the biotech industry up there??

Everything is done correctly: Great waterfront, VERY clean city streets (we're from Philadelphia though so pretty much anything seems clean to us), the Bixi bikes were awesome, food was amazing, etc etc etc. My favorite part was renting the bikes, riding up the extremely bike friendly streets (side note, it was depressing thinking of how awfully un-bike-friendly Philly is after seeing there were actual lanes for bikes in Montreal) to Mt. Royal, then down to the Biodome. Back to hotel, then out for drinks and poutine while watching some of the Olympics. Life is good.

Yeah, of course we did all the typical touristy things, but also explored around on the bikes looking for the nooks and crannies of the city. Every new area we went to, we found something we loved about it.

That's all, just wanted to say thanks for the hospitality, and for not being jerks about our broken French. It was funny how anytime I tried to say "bonjour" the person would immediately know I'm not from there and they'd just say "hello" with perfect English. 3 years of high school French did nothing for me. Oh well. Aurevoir! I hope to make it back sooner than later.

Edited for grammar error.