Quebec City 2 – returning

After leaving Montreal last night, it was a fairly short journey back to Quebec City. We are here today and tomorrow. Today’s plan was simple, out, wander, visit a couple of museums, maybe climb the “hill” again, avoid the pink balloon babies, and see what there was to see.

When walking by the lovely small restaurant that George stopped at the last time we were here was obviously closed, I realized that we had headed out well before any reasonable opening time…

OTOH, I took a chance and made a quick hike up the hill, ?mountain?, to check on the Starbucks. Yes, they were open, yes, they were packed with customers, no they didn’t have any of the thermoses which left me headed right back down. And spotted yet another one of the

But still, it was a lovely day.

We made a stop at the Museum of Civilization – featuring exhibits wide ranging from original peoples through exploration of the area by the Europeans to a discussion of more modern times.

because, of course, the known universe had to be mapped by the Europeans with a bit of imagination.

Early snowmobile developed prior to WWII were important in areas with cold and snow.

and judges, even female judges just have to wear lace ties/jabots.

Our next stop was to be the Maritime Museum …. closed. Since it was a weekend, the Fleet training school also seemed deserted.

At the end of the day ,

came on board for a concert. They were excellent. One of the new passengers wasn’t – as she apparently thought that teenage (trust me, she had left that decades prior) behavior of standing in front of the band, moving around and sticking her arms up in the air was appropriate behavior.