Went to Quebec City and Montréal with my sister Julie and Mom. Pictures are here:

Quebec and Montreál

The flight out had a stopover in Toronto before getting us to Montréal. We then rented a car and drove to Quebec. It took us about six hours to go the under 200 miles because there was a lot of snow. Quebec Carnivale was going on at the time, so there were a lot of people there. We just walked around the city, which is very old and very cool. Since it was snowy and slippery, we had to take it easy with Mom. But she was a trooper and saw a lot of the city.

The next day we drove back to Montréal and the snow was cleared, so we got there in about two hours. Montréal was about 10 degrees colder than Quebec and had a brutal wind. Since we also wore Mom out quite a bit in Quebec, we didn’t make her do much walking in Montréal. We did eat lunch at our hotel, while waiting for the room to be ready and got to watch the Canadian hockey team play an Olympic game. All the waiters were watching as was pretty much anyone who came to the restaurant. Fortunately, Canada won in overtime.

After a short walk to the underground mall in Montréal, Mom got her gifts for all the grandkids and was happy to go back to the hotel to give her legs a rest. Julie and I then braved the cold to check out Montréal. We saw a lot. I heard there’s a bike ride here in June and I’d like to come back sometime to do it.

Big snowstorm in Chicago when we were heading back, so we spent the day at the airport. Finally took off around 7 and after a somewhat bumpy ride home, we got in around 9. Definitely crazy to go to Canada in winter, but it was fun.