Québec City: Bonjour!
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:29PM Bonjour, mes amis! Hier nous sommes arrivés sans risque à l'aéroport. Ma soeur et son mari nous ont pris et alors nous avons conduit à l'hôtel.
Translation: Hello, my friends! Yesterday we arrived safely at the airport. My sister and her husband picked us up and then we drove to the hotel. (Yes, I cheated and used Babelfish. My French is a little, um, lacking.)
Let's just backtrack a little to before arriving in la belle province. Matt and I had a little adventure getting to our gate at Pearson. We drove around Pearson twice because we missed the sign telling us where we needed to go to drop off our rental car. We wandered around Terminal 1 for a good 10-15 minutes until we finally figured out that oops, WestJet flies out of Terminal 3. When we finally got to Terminal 3, we were unable to use the automated check-in machines and were forced to check-in at the counter where the customer service representative rolled her eyes at us and sighed heavily. After going through the security check (where they swabbed our one bag for "bomb residue", good times), we walked quickly to our gate. On the way there, we got a really nice text message from my sister letting us know that they would be picking us up at the airport Sweet!
After we settled down at our hotel, we went out to in search of food. We ended up at this nice place called Mo Resto-Bar and had a really nice meal. I had a veal burger and Matt had a duck confit pizza. After dinner, we wandered over to Brulerie St-Roch and had a cappuccino and a hot chocolate.
Today we started out by having breakfast at De Blanchet where I was "volunteered" to order breakfast for everyone. Croissants and coffees all around! After breakfast, we walked about 10 minutes to catch the Ecobus to the lower part of Vieux Québec. We spent the day exploring the area on foot. There were tons of little boutiques interspersed between historical buildings and churches. We had a huge meal at Le Cochon Dingue and continued exploring. It is now 9pm and we're STILL not hungry. I think we're going to skip dinner.
Québec City, day trips in travels
Reader Comments (2)
The Écolobus is a small bus that runs for free between downtown Quebec City and "le Vieux-Québec" (Old Quebec). It has a top speed of 33 km/h and consumes the equivalent of $3.25 in electricity a day. Also, it's really cute! :)
Thanks, sis! Oh and I lied. We eventually went out for dinner at 10:30pm. Mmm ... Poutine ;)