Happy Canada Day!! What a beautiful City Quebec City is! I absolutely love it here and it's one of the places I feel I could live happily. What I did notice, however, was that there are absolutely no signs that today is Canada Day. Except for the Canada Day t-shirts we're wearing, of course. We got a good early start and as we were leaving this stunning and spotless city, we counted 3 Canadian flags, one at U Laval (but it was behind the more predominantly dis...

Arrived in Quebec City at 7 pm, kids and I had our much anticipated swim at the hotel (Delta Quebec City) while Marc rested from driving all day. Once we were all refreshed, we walked into the old City to eat and practice our French. Benjamin still understands a lot of French and Katie brought her little dictionary and charmed our waiters and staff of Le Restaurant Parmesean. We took photos of us all 3 years later at the cannonball and the canons. We saw new vi...

Today's first destination: the world's friendliest Tim Horton's in Burk's Falls. You all know I've done my research on this. As I write this we are going through Madawaska, East of Algonquin Park. I savoured every beautiful moment of the journey through Algonquin, remembering the many amazing trips there with family and friends. We have a 9 hour journey today to get to Quebec City, and we had a somewhat later start than planned, so it was a quick journey throug...

Started our first real day of our holidays with a nice sleep in (thanks kids!)Katie was swimming with her cousins and aunt & uncle and Benjamin soon joined them to lounge on the floating turtle. After pancakes and coffee, the party island was enjoyed by everyone except moi and Donna (we enjoyed a windy chat on the dock) The sunny splendor was interrupted by many sudden downpours which eventually led to the power being knocked out. Thanks to the generator an...

Today we left the big city behind and hit the road to begin the first leg of our journey to the East Coast. The kids are almost as excited as the adults! Our first day of travel began at 4:30 pm when we picked Benjamin up from a swim/Minecraft party. We made it to the cottage in time for the amazing annual Eagle Lake fireworks show, where we watched the showcase of explosive art from our boat. Tomorrow is a day of cottage r & r with more of this beautiful ...