Last night I went out with my cousins and we checked out the opening night of the new Hudsons Taphouse in Calgary. We danced the night away to Lady Gaga, ACDC, Bryan Adams and had an absolute blast. It’s a medium to large sized venue, the atmosphere was very sports pubby, they had tons of TVs and it was full to the brim of stylish twenty somethings ready to have a good time.

Guess who we ran into?

(You’d be hard-pressed to find a Canadian who doesn’t recognize this beer-loving ginger!)

Jon Montgomery! Hudsons brought both him and Hailey Wickenheiser to help the patrons celebrate the opening of the bar. He was eager to take lots of pictures with people and while he didn’t ever actually let go of the medal he was very open to shake hands, chug beers and let people hold the (very heavy) gold medal!

Let me tell you, Canada is still not over the Olympics and all of our amazing athletes. Jon and Hailey got lots of cheers and at times there was a line-up to get a picture with Jon and the medal!

All in all, we had a great night, the food was tasty and not at all overpriced, the service was shockingly fast for an opening night and I’ll be back next weekend. (It helps that it’s within stumbling distance to my condo…)