Last day of our vacation and home

 Joey and Kate made us a great barbecue dinner on Friday.  Chicken shish-ka-bob with peppers, onions and mushrooms, salad, naan bread with spicy hummus.  Really very good.  I would have to say that Kate is the brains of the operation and Joey is the helper.

 We took the cable car up Mont Ste. Anne on Saturday morning.  I had never done that before and it was good.  So now I know I can do that again if I want/need to.  There was a biking competition going on and there were hundreds of bikes and bikers. Also the dirt bikers would take the cable car up to the top and ride back down and get filthy.  Then hook their bikes to the back and/or front of the cable car and go up and do it again.

Here are Joey and Kate at the top.

The views from the top of the mountain were magnificent!  The sun was out and it was nice and warm, but unfortunately the was a haze. From here you can see the St. Lawrence river and the island out there is Isle D'Orleans.  Joe and I drove all around that island earlier in the week.

We took the return route through the woods.  Which was the trail less trodden.  We were on the lookout for bears and wolves but didn't see any.  Darn!

Yeah, like I personally would have had a heart attack if we did.

We drove back to J & K's place and walked to the Jazz festival in the evening.  Kim Churchill was playing at the Heineken tent.  There was a line up and we patiently waited until we were next in line and then almost gave up on getting a seat.  There was lots of standing room but I was tired from all the walking and Joe's leg was hurting.  (You know, where he got hit by the car).  The waitress was kind enough to put four chairs out for us in a really good spot.  Kim Churchill is very talented and play the guitar, drum and harmonica simultaneously some of the time and has a great voice.  It was a little modern but very enjoyable.  We all went back to their condo and Joey and Kate got changed and headed back out for more music and fun.  We had a drink and went to bed.

We headed out around 7am, said goodbye to Joey and Kate with hugs (I'm sure they headed back to bed when we left) and arrived home around 2pm tired but happy.  

So that is the end of our trip down east.  We enjoyed everything and everybody and will settle in for a summer at home.

Canada Day

Hi Folks, I haven't written anything for the last couple of days.  June 29th was mostly a wash day and relaxing at the condo.  Then on June 30th we left around 11 am to go and pick up Joey and Kate in Montreal.  We thought we had plenty of time but the traffic getting into Montreal was so bad, we barely made it to their place for 4:30. Drove back, had dinner at St. Hubert and that was pretty much it for the day.

Today we started out at around 10:30.  The day was cloudy and you couldn't even see the mountain so that curtailed some of the events we had planned.  We decided to go to the St. Anne Canyon where you walk across the trestle bridge over the gorge.  It was fabulous.  The water was raging down the canyon and you are walking right above it.  Amazing.  I did get a little drizzly but not a problem.  We actually walked across two trestle bridges.  The stairs and grades were a bit of a challenge but worth it.



As you can see I was very happy that I did this as the canyon was extremely deep and the spray from the water fall was flying up far into the air.























Unfortunately the pictures cannot portray the true experience.  Joe, of course had shorts on, although the day was cool and cloudy.  He's tough though.









After that we were really ready for lunch and a drink!  The activities director suggested  we might like to go to Auberge Baker for lunch so we decided to check it out.  The building was a big old house and we had a private room to eat in.  I orded the "draft" wine as I thought that was quite original.  Actually it probably just came out of a box of wine like we get in Texas.  Kate and I had the chef special that was fish from Vietnam!  What's with that.  It came with soup, so I had the traditional French pea soup.  Very good.  There was milk in the sauce apparently and I had already told the waiter that I have a milk allergy, so he kindly replaced mine with one without milk.  It was quite a wait, but we were content to relax in this nice restaurant and when it came it was excellent.  The guys' meal came with dessert which they shared (lucky for them I say) and it was delicious.  It came with a bit of fruit and a nice sauce.

After lunch we went to a Domaine L'Ange Gardien winery.  It was hard to find and we almost gave up but then we spotted it and went in for some wine tasting.  The wine tasting was free because we were staying at the Club Vacances Toutes Saisons.  Interesting wine.  One that was really different was made with only strawberries.  Not grapes.

Home in the late afternoon and Kate and Joey are making a barbeque dinner for us.  Looking forward to that.