SainSmart 20 x 4 LCD wanting to use I2C from Arduino Uno

This is a dumb question, I know...but how do I "open the serial monitor" I uploaded the code for the I2C scanner and it compiled fine...but now what?

I did try the new liquid crystal library but which version are you referring to? There are like 10 downloads on that bitbucket page.....

so confusing....and is this for 1.0 or 1.0.1?

I saw some posts of some sainsmarts getting to work, but dammit I want mine to