A FREE DAY

Saturday, September 21

Today was a free day.  No activities were schedued other than a staff prepared breakfast and a trave briefing for our trip to Colebrook, NH tomorrow.  Barrey, Terri, George and Carol prepared breakfast in a bag.

      George warming the tortillas.

 This is something Adventure Caravans does on most of its trips.  We did it on our trip to Alaska.  You put a couple of eggs in a Zip Lock Freezer bag, add sausage, onions, peppers, ham, etc.  Then you squeeze the concoction in the bag to scramble the eggs.

    Terri helps Eunice scramble her eggs.

Get all the air out of the bag and drop it into a pot of boiling water for 5-8 minutes. When you pull it out you have an omelet that tastes great.

    Barry pulls the omelets from the boiling water.

         Terri gets Jenna's omelet out of the bag.

They also had fruit, toast, muffins, tortillas, juice, coffee, and all the extras for breakfast. It was a real treat. Adv. Caravans does a good job of providing lots of opportunities for fellowship with our traveling companions.

Following breakfast we had travel briefings for tomorrow and Tuesday. The next week is going to be packed with activities, so hang on and be ready for lots more.

       Barry and Terri hold a travel briefing

After the travel briefings everyone went their separate ways. Some stayed in the campground to do laundry or clean their rigs, some went to the Aquarium or other point of interest in Quebec. Jenna, Earl, Eunice and I went back down to Old Quebec City to shop and enjoy the atmosphere.

 Beautiful flowers were everywhere.

This guy played music on glasses.  Jenna bought his 

                                                                   CD

Singing from a 3rd floor window.

Street musicians were everywhere.

         

Another street entertainer

We really just spent the day walking and looking - not much buying.

      We had lunch at this outdoor cafe.

Things are more expensive here now than they were the last time we were here. The American $ is valued the same as the Canadian $ so we didn't have to pay more that the price tag like we did last time, but stuff is just more expensive.

       Earl visited with a donkey by the Anglican Church.

    A huge wall mural in Old Quebec. 

At 6:00 our entire group met at La Cremaillere, a very nice French restaurant, for dinner.

Like Jeff once said when we took him to a nice restaurant, "White tablecloths, napkins, and no country music - this must be a fancy place, " this restaurant was very nice, the food was good, but the service was so-so. We had a choice of appetizers from salad to escargot. Next was a leek soup that was pretty good. For the entree we had a choice of Seafood stew, Veal trip loin with baby carrots and shallot with potatoes, or Filet of beef with a red wine sauce acompanied by Yukon Goldpotato gratin. For dessert were could have Iced nougat with honey and nuts or Chocolate and Morello cherries cake with vanila an caramel sauce. Overall the food was good, but the veal was a little tough. We had to wait 30 minutes between the soup and the entree, and some were finished with their dessert before other received theirs, but we really had a good time visiting with everyone while we enjoyed the meal.

Tomorrow we head out for the good old USA. Until then, Happy Trails!