Île d'Orléans

There was an Island across the River from Quebec City.

We decided to drive around the Island.

We stopped and at at the Chocolaterie.

Quiche and salad.

Just had to stop!

We bought a box of chocolate.

There were a lot of different flavors in the box.

Lincoln and I shared each piece. 

half a piece for each of us.

Looking back to Quebec City across the St. Lawrence River.

Quebec.

The chocolates we bought.

(they actually weren't all that great, sorry to say)

This is the second waterfall we went to visit.

We took a tram up to the top of the waterfall,

walked across the bridge you see at the top,

and then walked down those stairs

on the far right side of of the picture.

The tram.

The view from the top of the waterfall

back across the river.

The bridge we took from the Island and back.

I was kind of scared of those stairs.

They looked rickety from afar

but were fine when we finally got to them.

A rainbow!

The bridge at the top of the waterfall.

Starting down the long flight of stairs.

Another bridge we crossed.

Another view of that same bridge. 

Lincoln walked to the base of the waterfall by himself.

The fanciest dinner we had was that evening.

We had no idea what we getting in to.

A five course meal.

The salad.

Yellow pea soup, and my georgeous husband.

Lincoln's meal.  He chose a traditional meal.

Meat pie, Meat balls, and some other things I don't remember.

I ordered fish.

I was super surprised to see the entire fish.

Eyeballs, tail and all!

The presentation was quite lovely :)

The leavings of the fish!

We had "sugar" pie for dessert.

I hadn't had anything like it before.

The fruit on the top was something I hadn't ever seen or 

eaten before . . . . 

I like trying new things!

I'm glad we had this experience.

The restaurant was in a very old home.

A nice treat.

Quebec City

The biggest tourist draw in Quebec City

for us was old town.

This section of town has buildings from the 16 and 1700's.

I loved how they had planters in almost every window.

This reminded me of Europe, especially Venice.

Very pretty.

We thought this address was cute!

Especially considering the addresses in Harry Potter!

I just had to click a picture.

Everything was decorated so cleverly.

The entire old town of Quebec was enclosed by ramparts.

Lincoln and I walked around the wall, mostly on top of the wall.

I think it was four miles of wall.

I took this picture to remember THIS restroom.

With all the talk about men and women,

boys and girls being able to use the same bathroom.

I was shocked and amazed to find that all sexes,

both young and old were ALL using the same restroom.

We HAD to use the restroom,

and did,

but it was odd to say the least.

Thankfully there were no urinals!!!  

Neat old homes.

Street Decor.

This was an underground room . . . . 

probably was for something to do with the military in days of old.

There were a bunch of local crafters in there.

We bought Ariana a homemade apron here.

More street decor.

This is a painting on the side of a building.

Supposedly a famous painting.

It was pretty neat.

Another view of the painting.

And another view.

The painting again.

There were street performers every day.

This hotel is the main attraction of the city.

It morphs everything around it.

It is called the Chateau Frontenac.

Built in the 1600's.

Pretty impressive.

A picture from Google:

(you can see the city wall that we walked in the foreground)

A section of the walkway around the city.

Very picturesque.

The St. Lawrence River

the "Fleuve Saint-Laurent"

More of the walk around the city wall.

Just outside the Citadel.

(A military installation)

One of the gates into the city.

We ate here:

The street cafe's were so quaint!

This is one we ate at.

Our table didn't have an umbrella and we needed one.

It rained HARD, just as we were finishing eating.

It's a good thing we brought our own umbrella!

Mmmmmmm gooooooood.