Sunday,
July 7, 2013
Samuel was very excited to go on a train.
He knew many Thomas the Train stories and had a large train track in his room.
He and his family were off to Quebec
City to celebrate Uncle
Craig’s 40th birthday. His Papa got the closest parking spot to the
Ottawa Train Station main entrance. No waiting in a lineup – the Bowman boys
and family were led right to the front of the line. Soon Sam and David were
boarding the VIA train.
Everyone enjoyed the ride to Montreal. Sam
quickly checked out his VIA activity bag and was very absorbed in creating his
paper train. Luckily Uncle Grant had brought some duct tape so the cars held
together. As well he set up the little train that he and Grant were used to
playing with. David seemed to like the motion of the train. Looking at the
scenery, the stations and the track kept the boys busy as well as visiting
family members in other seats.
Two hours went by quickly and we were in Montreal to switch
to another train to Quebec City. Sam was interested in the engine and he said hello to the
engineer. There was just enough time to have some lunch at the Montreal train
station.
Soon we were on board another VIA train,
crossing the fleuve St. Laurent to follow the south shore. We spotted the Jacques Cartier bridge
that Papa had worked on.
About four hours later we arrived in Quebec City. We all
hiked to the Hotel le Saint-Paul to register and pick up our keys for Le Gite
de la Montagne. Our gite was an old stone house right at the top of the Case-cou
stairs.
We had fun exploring the floors of our
gite. We had the whole building to ourselves. From the rooftop terrace we could
see the river. We had a huge kitchen where we opened a bottle of blueberry mead
from Vancouver Island to toast our adventure. Craig and Pamela checked out the gelato in
a ground level Cremazie. We all enjoyed a homemade chili dinner made by Grandpa
and then everyone visited the Cremazie for a cold treat.
After this we explored the old city and
found the hotel Ste-Anne where we would have breakfast as part of our gite.
The boys happily tried out the gite shower
caps as part of their bath.
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