Moncton/Pugwash

first glimpse of the ocean!

From Québec we took an overnight train to Moncton, New Brunswick. We got in on the 24 and rented a car. We were going to be staying in a cottage on the coast of Nova Scotia in a little town called Pugwash. A family Bradley knew from his mission owns it and let us stay. It was an hour and a half drive there and on the way we stopped to pick up something from kijiji. Psych DVD's! The real reason we took this trip hah. We got some groceries and had a relaxing half day in. We strolled along the beach. Watched the sunset. And realized that I hate crabs.


 When the sun had gone down watched some psych and did laundry.

P.S. This whole trip was planned around when we could do laundry. Making sure that we had access to a machine once a week.

Québec

We arrived in Québec with time to still explore on the 22 Aug. We went to the citadelle and did a tour of the Governor General's accomadations.

It was interesting, but too fancy for me to live in. Also I only took pictures of the artwork in the building never any of the actual rooms... Hmm wonder what interests me...
Later that afternoon we did a tour of the Parliament building.


The outside of the Parliament building was under construction but the inside was still beautiful.

That night we ate at this cute little Creperie in old Quebec. It was our 2nd anniversary.

We wandered around the walls surrounding Old Quebec, but both of our phones died as we found a great picture spot...

We were staying a little bit out of quebec so we took the bus to the place we would be sleeping that night.



On the 23 we walked along the path in the Park of the Plaines of Abraham. It was quite long but very informative. They had signs along the path giving details about the battle. And we had accidentally started at the end so when we made it to the beginning we turned around and did it all again. (maybe that's why I thought it was long). So many cannons everywhere. And benches... Sometimes we questioned the placement of said benches...

Sooo many benches looking out...

to these wonderful trees...

Montréal

I am kicking myself that I didn't finish this sooner...
We got into Montreal late on the 20 of August. And we had such a crazy cab ride to our AirBnB place that Brad almost reported him.

Our hostess welcomed us in and explained where everything was in French. It wasn't until she said goodnight and left that I realized that I understood everything and had no problems with her accent. It turns out she is from France and not Quebecoise.

We fell asleep quickly that night and woke up early the next day. I had heard that the top of Mont Royal was a beautiful place to watch the sunrise so I pulled Brad out of bed at to watch 6:03 sunrise. We started out by walking their and then running when we realized that we were running late. On the way, we came across a bike rake that you could rent bikes at. I believe it was only like $10 for both of us for the whole day. The only catch was you had to return it to a rack every 30 min (but they were all over the city it didn't pose a problem). So we rented those and biked the rest of the way
We made it in time, with little to spare, but really sweaty...

 After we went back to our room and had a nap.

 We went to the Museum of Fine Arts and came out just in time to see the last of the eclipse. Some kind strangers on the street let us see it with their glasses.

Just around the corner from the Museum was Dunn's Famous where we went for lunch. I had a poutine and Brad had some smoked meat sandwich.

I wanted to see Old Montréal and Notre Dame so we biked there as fast as we could as the roads turned to cobblestone. We made it just in time to take a tour inside. Then we wandered the streets for awhile and walked on the port.

We went back to place satisfied and content with everything we saw. Finished the evening off with a conversation with our host and called it a night.

We took an Uber to the station and left Montréal the next day.