Not so Good at this

Well, I guess we aren't so good at the whole writing of blogs thing, although it worked very well the last time we were on a vacation. This time, though, I guess it was just too much after long days of walking around Montreal and Quebec.

I LOVED Quebec - liked Montreal too but I really really liked Quebec, although walking up and down all of the hills was tiring after a while.

What did we do? Primarily, we walked. We did see the botanical gardens in Montreal (they were beautiful, and I could have easily spent more time there). We got smoked meat at Schwartz's and bagels at a really nice bagel place. We went to two brew pubs. We walked around old town. No-l and her mother walked up 99 stairs to see a bunch of crutches and a heart in a church (some of the rest of us stayed in the church's gardens during that time due to arthritis in the knees). We took a ferry to an Island across from Montreal where the world's fair had taken place. And... we walked. In Quebec, we saw some of the monuments, particularly those to Montcalm and Wolfe. We went into a very beautiful church (Notre-Dame if I'm not mistaken) because it was pouring out. We went to the Plains of Abraham. We had crepes and gelato. And we walked. We found a beautiful wood sculpture store which I will regret not buying anything at until I get back to Quebec OR until the sculptor emails me back. We walked around old town, both the upper and lower parts. We went on a Ghost Walk (fun) and we went to the market. I took the Funicular, because I wanted to have taken one in more than one city.

We wasted half a day because our dear friend Sedwick didn't have the right town for his drop zone, so we had to drive 2.5 hours out of our way to drop him off. And drop him off we did, since we didn't pick him up until the next day!

And, we went to Montmorency Falls and the Ile d'Orleans.

Need more time to see more of the province of Quebec. It appears that there is a CRW event (read: some silly type of skydiving thing) over Labor Day, so we may drive up there, leave Sedwick off for the jumping, and go back to Quebec, go to Ottawa, and perhaps go to Montreal again (especially for those yummy bagels).

And because I have much work to do today, I'm only going to paste the slideshow here, rather than playing around with making a movie or something. Lots of pictures of flowers here - little of most other things...