In the last post i mentioned that we were going to have a big day checking out old Quebec city.
I must have jinxed myself or something because shortly after i started throwing up... and it didn't stop until 24 hours later. For no reason whatsoever, food poisoning? Virus? I don't know. I won't go into any more detail but lets just say that our only full day in Quebec City was spent with me lying in bed and poor neri running around trying to find anything to help me feel better. But let's be honest, what would a holiday be without me assaulting the bathroom. It was blizzarding outside so i guess there's not much we could have done but still I felt awful for wasting a day.
So i woke up today feeling much better... we had to check out by 12pm so quickly headed out to see as much as we could. Lightly snowing but not too cold, we had fun walking around the old city which was absolutely beautiful. To be honest the city is probably for an older crowd, there isn't all that much to do other than marvel at the architecture and walk in and out of the charming little shops. We didn't have time to visit any of the museums which was a bummer.
We did manage to get coated with snow by the guy riding the snow blower before we left.
At around 12 we checked out and started on our way to Montreal.
I'm tired of typing so i'm going to pass over to neri... -j
Well the car ride was pretty uneventful... some lovely snowy scenery along the way, but (gladly) there were no more spectacular lane change episodes or other near death experiences this time.
When we were nearly in Montreal I was looking at the map and realised that our hotel was right in the middle of the main downtown area, so we decided to part with our horrid mini-bus a day early. Jase shed a tear as he handed back the keys but I was happy to see it go.
We walked back to our hotel to get ready for tonight's activity... our first ever ice hockey match! The stadium is just down the street from us so we walked down amongst all the die-hard fans singing their team's theme song - and this was before the game! The Philadelphia Flyers were playing the Canadien Habs (the google now tells us that Habs means 'Habitants', referring to french canadians, but we spent the whole game trying to figure our what their mascot had to do with anything).
Very happy to report that our team won, 5-2. We had so much fun watching all the scuffles between the teams and really getting caught up
in the whole atmosphere. There was a point where one of the glass panels shattered when the puck hit it, and they had to replace it, which took about 10 mins extra. It was an exciting game, and all the entertainment during the breaks kept us laughing - for example, dance-offs, kiss-offs, and air canons shooting merchandise into the crowd. Unfortunately we were too high up in the stands to get involved in the fun.
So hopefully Jase will be feeling back to 100% tomorrow and we will have more fun things to report next time!
xx N.
