July 21, 2017 - Day 2 Quebec City & Grand Falls, Nb
Before I begin a quick summary of today's adventures, I must write about last night after I completed my blog. While writing my blog, Dale decided he would go across the street to find a Pharmacy. Turns out he left some meds at home. So he went to petition a Pharmacist to give him a 'few' pills. Well, believe it or not, they did. I don't know how he did it. Anyway, upon exiting the building, he must have become a bit lost. He was gone an hour. Denise and Julee actually took off to find him. I some him from our balcony and yelled out to him and asked him what he was doing. He just said he came out of the wrong door. I guess so! Anyway, that was an adventure for us all.
This morning, we had to be out of the dorm at 10 AM. First on the agenda was to go get a 2nd rental car and drop the first one. We took a royal tour of the suburbs of QC finding Enterprise Rental Car. We then headed out to the airport to drop the one that we drove from Montreal. Once we had the 2nd car, we headed into Old Town QC hoping it would be less crowded and easier to find parking. After an hour of endless lines of cars, we gave up and declared our tour a driving tour. There must be a secret on how to use a car to get into that location...but we never figured it out.
We left QC downtown and headed back out to the falls that we saw yesterday. This time Denise and Julee were going to zip line across it. The whole way there, Julee did not quit talking about reasons why she should not do it. She would not say that she did not want to do it. But she just gave a ton of excuses. Nonetheless, we got to the site and she jumped out with Denise to go get registered and get the gear. Dale and I drove up the hill and then walked down to the bridge to take our place as the photographers. In the end, both Denise and Julee flew across the falls and the deep gorge. And Dale and I got video and still pictures. They were so excited that they did it. I'm glad I just photographed.
After we did that, we drove around and found some food to eat. We then headed towards Prince Edward Island although you have to go towards Montreal for a good while to get across a bridge and then you head east towards the east coast.
It was a 3+ hour drive to Grand Falls, New Brunswick (NB). On the way we hit some amazing rain storms. At one point, it was so bad, people were pulling off to the side and putting their hazards on. But give two motorcycle riders a lot of credit as they 'weathered' quite the storm on their bikes. The temperature obviously became much cooler and has remained that way. We are in a Quality Inn here in Grand Falls. We picked stopping here as it was about half way to PEI.
This evening, we found a nice Italian restaurant and ordered some pizzas, salad and other stuff. It was really good pizza. The girl who checked us into the hotel said the it was 'the best pizza in the world.'. Well, I would not go that far. But it was pretty good.
Upon returning home, we decided to go for a quick swim\hot tub. I think the pool was warmer than the hot tub. Nonetheless, it felt nice after a long drive.
PEI tomorrow....where I booked an AIRBNB on a cliff overlooking the ocean there. I hope it turns out to be as nice as it sounds.
Pictures...
The Zip Liners getting geared up!
The final trek to the zip lines....
There they go across the deep gorge....
New Brunswick....it is really green with lots of pine trees so far.
Crazy rain storm plagued us a bit on the drive. This is Dale coming out of place where we emptied our tanks and got gas. It was raining real hard...thus the blurry picture from inside the car.
Downtown Grand Falls. It is a a very nice, really small town.
Nice Pizza dinner.....
Full, ready for some rest. This is the eatery where we ate last night. Very nice place.
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