{"id":5916,"date":"2017-07-30T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:06:10","slug":"festival-yatai-mtl-and-yukata-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/festival-yatai-mtl-and-yukata-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Yatai MTL! and yukata outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>What’s this? Another outing for yours truly?! It feels good getting back into the swing of things.<\/p>\n

This weekend a friend was in town, and the first Yatai MTL! street food festival<\/a> was happening, so we decided to go in yukata. Since she was visiting from a ways away, I lent her one of my yukata and obi, and I’m glad to see it getting some use.<\/p>\n

One of the awesome things about Montreal is the sheer number of awesome events and festivals that happen during this summer. This year is no exception, because the city is celebrating her 375th birthday. This weekend alone, aside from the festival we went to, had the Formula E<\/a> electric car races, Just For Laughs!<\/a>, the International Fireworks competition<\/a>, and quite possibly other small ones I’m not even aware of. Because of all this, all the public transit in the city was free. However, because of this, the public transit in the city was also the busiest I’ve ever seen it. We were delayed getting out, and the metro was a horrible swamp of humanity. However, we made it to our first stop without too much drama. We began the afternoon by fortifying ourselves with lovely microbrew beers from Dieu Du Ciel<\/a>, an awesome local brewery. My friend’s brother came with us and was kind enough to act as photographer for the day.<\/p>\n\n\t\t