February 22, 2001. It was around 10 o'clock at night, damn cold, and Wendy and I were between bars. We went to the bank machine at Complexe Desjardins by way of the underground tunnel from Place des Arts. After cashing up, we noticed there seemed to be something going on outside, on Ste. Catherine Street. We went outside to check and stumbled into the Festival Montreal en Lumiere.