Day 75 Quebec City Part 3

Most of the time in Quebec City we just walked the streets. Around every corner was something interesting. 

Day 74 - Quebec City Part 2

 These pictures are from the grounds surrounding the citadel in Quebec City. This fort was built on a cliff above the Saint Lawrence River...It was amazing the way the engineers designed it into the land with grass on many of the roofs so that you can not see it when looking up from below - like on these paths...On the other side of those short walls was often a very significant drop off.

Day 73 - Quebec City

This past weekend we spent with Oma and Grumps in Quebec City - a lovely town 3 hours northeast of Montreal. The city has a definite European feel to it. The town was very clean and very easy to walk around...no public transportation was needed accept the occasional stroller ride for the girls. These next few pictures are from the inside of Notre Dame du Quebec. Look close in the bottom right picture and you will see several flat screen televisions.

Day 71, 72

Please say a prayer for my friend Mindee and her baby Blake today. Blake is having open heart surgery this morning at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

It's been snowing all morning in Montreal!!! What crazy weather. Yesterday was 60 degrees!

Day 68, 69, 70

Carly willingly agreed to pose for a photo-shoot to let me practice with my new camera. It's rare that I have to twist her arm to let me take a picture. These were taken outside parliament building in Ottawa.

Day 67

Happy Birthday to Charleigh!!! Mark and Nikki had a baby girl on Tuesday, April 20th....Charleigh Olivia Freeman. We can not wait to meet her!

Day 66 - More Ottawa

Our Ottawa trip began at a parking garage that came out at this enormous sculpture of a spider. It was outside the art museum that we hope to go back and see the inside of one day.

We crossed this long bridge to get over the river to the children's museum. We didn't plan to park on the wrong side of the river - but it ended up giving us a great view of some of the government buildings in ottawa - and it would have been a nice walk if it had not been so cold and windy.

The view of Canada's parliament building from the river and from the front. We attempted to take the free tour of the building with both girls...and our huge double stroller...the security was quite the process. We had tons and tons of gear since we were traveling with the girls - all had to be searched ... the stroller was extensively searched by hand. Maggie and Carly had to walk individually through the metal detector. I guess we looked like a suspicous crew...They also confiscated Carly's clay art work and her paper hat that she had created at the children's museum - for some reason they were not buying my description of her masterpiece - I actually appreciate her art a little more now - luckily, Carly was unaware of the discussion I was having with the security guard - Otherwise, they might have really needed to call in reinforcements for the meltdown she would have had. Luckily, they agreed to return her valuable artwork at the end of the tour...which was another funny encounter w/security. Mike and I sneakily went over to the guards at the end of the tour to try to retrieve the bag with the confiscated goods without being seen by Carly -They gladly returned the clay project and then told us to immediately leave the building with our supposed "clay project"...I was smiling/laughing inside - the guards were totally serious and did not waver when I said that my daughters were still on the tour. In our attempt to be discreet, we were totally separated from Carly and Maggie - luckily Oma and Grumps were around to finish the tour with the girls and meet back up with us without Carly ever knowing about the incident.