Before I jump into today’s post, I forgot to mention that we took a bus tour of the city yesterday evening. It was quite cool and we were all freezing by the end. It was an open top double decker bus. Great views of the city from the docks though. Also the bus tour was the only time we left the old part of the city.
Onto today. We officially kicked off week 5 today. Breakfast at another crepe place today. Also, more rain this morning. After breakfast we headed back to the citadel for the changing of the guard ceremony. They have an official regimental goat. We got our picture taken with the goat. Anyway, the ceremony was very interesting, a bit tedious at times, but pretty cool nonetheless.
After the changing of the guard it was on to the Plains of Abraham. It’s a big park. With a lot of cool history. There was a nice museum to go through and we got a bus tour of the very large park. Took a break from touristy stuff for lunch. The French had just won the World Cup and today is the last day of the huge summer music festival. It was a very upbeat happy place today. After lunch we went back to the park and went through the Mortello tower. Built for defense against the US, the towers were never used. Pretty cool interactive tour through the tower.
Then it was on to a pastry shop for croissants. We walked back down near the chateau and wandered around for a bit. Kids were interested in the street performers so we watched some acrobats for a bit. Too early for dinner, too late for tourist stuff, we headed back to the apartment. Got the last bit of laundry done, researched Montréal a bit. Decided to head back down to the Place Royale for dinner. We ended the evening with a stop at a chocolaterie and a ride up the funicular.
That’s the end of the Quebec portion of the trip. Tomorrow we head to Montreal.
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