Now that the holidays are behind us, I would like to suggest a Montréal Dopefest for the spring. Yes, it’s time for Sugardope[sup]TM[/sup]. It is a yearly tradition here to gather in the spring and go to the sugar shack to enjoy good food and maple products.
I would suggest for the dates of this potential Dopefest, the week-ends of either 15-16 March (to go with the Montreal St-Patrick parade, the oldest in North America) or the following week-end of 22-23 March.
So all are invited, the old hands as well as the newbies. Come up here to enjoy maple toffee on the snow, oreilles de Christ, grand-pères dans le sirop and other sweet treats.
Hm… I’d love to come up, but it looks like those two weekends are the two weekends in March that I’ve got commitments. That may change though; I’ll let you know.
LaurAnge, scott evil and I were talking about Sugardope last weekend you know. Should be a lot of fun!
I’m there, obviously. Well, I’m already here. You know what I mean. :rolleyes:
I think the weekend of March 22-23 would be better in terms of weather.
We’ll need people with cars, since we’ll be going off the island. Or we could rent a minivan.
detop, would we be sugaring off Saturday or Sunday morning/afternoon? I can take care of organizing an evening dinner in town, since I’m so good at that.
clayton_e: I’m not getting married in two months…! :eek:
CuriousCanuck: there’s a thread in MPSIMS about Dopefests…
Can we have an Elenfair? And some of those cool Dopers who met me, LaurAnge, and matt_mcl last weekend in NYC?
The Pad of Evil® will once again be open for business. I can put up three comfortably, and four slightly uncomfortably (but after the House of Pain®, anything’s possible).
Sounds great, I’d love to go. You know, we’ve got some great syrup down here, too. Could we all bring a taste of local syrup and have a pancake brunch/maple tasting morning?
Sorry to hear that Eonwe, hope you’ll be able to make it though. Glad to hear that the suggestion I made at Doperéal hadn’t fell on deaf ears
Curious Canuck you’re welcome to join us, just do like scott evil suggested and also keep track of this thread.
clayton_e, yes the Board is slower. It took we 4 tries to post this thread and about the same amount to post this answer. In addition, at one point, the Home Page was listing who was online at the time (1606 members if I recall correctly).
scott evil, a spring equinox Dopefest ? sounds good to me. I was thinking of Saturday afternoon for the sugaring off party. So a dinner Saturday evening would probably be required (something light would be preferable).
whatmove, tha’t’s the reason Québec wants to annex Vermont and New Hampshire, so we could have a monopoly on maple syrup production. Bwahahahaha !
I wanna come, but I’m stuck here for school! I know, I complain about not making it to ANY Montreal Dopefest, but thats because I miss Montreal (and Quebec) so much, and I don’t want to be in this stupid province anymore… :pout:
When we came back up from Christmas break, my SO and I forgot to bring one essential thing…maple syrup. We left it in my parents kitchen. So we’re making due with cheap substitute because we can’t afford the real stuff here (we eat it WAY too fast!), but I am NOT happy about it. Oh well, Reading Week is mid-February…I can last another 5 weeks…I think.
Right, then, a light and late Saturday dinner sounds good, if we’re planning on gorging ourselves that afternoon on pancakes, eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, potatoes, bines, oreilles de crisse, etc., all drenched in maple syrup.
Yum. Just typing that sent me into insulin shock and clogged my arteries. :eek:
Oooh! Sugaring off! Haven’t been to one of those since I was a wee’un! I’d love to go. Not sure I can, what with the whole It’s-Another-Country-And-It’s-Four-Or-Five-Hours-Away* thing, but I’ll surely think about it.
*I know lots of people drive further than that for Dopefests, but it’s rare for me to get two days in a row off from work and I hate spending half a day driving to spend one day somewhere, that’s all.
