The next day in Quebec, in pictures.

So, the next day in Quebec, we decided we'd better see Quebec. :P It's about a 40 minute drive from our condo, so very doable. We decided to walk around the Old Town right on the water. When we arrived, it was a gorgeous sunny day and offered up a large variety of scenic views. 

 They had SO many gorgeous arrangements of flowers and landscaping. Every shop had quaint window-boxes and flowers. Everything was so beautiful and colorful and well-maintained.

 Below is the Petit Champlain, the little shopping street in Old Town. They had glass-blowers, souvenirs, jewelry (lots of jewelry) and other things handmade by local artists. It was pretty fun to walk around and see it all.

The Petit Champlain had a little garden to rest in about halfway down the street.

As I said, all the shops have the most adorable decor.

This wall had quite the mural on it. The real people liked to take pictures amongst the fake street as you can see.

 When we got hungry, we tried a restaurant that was recommended by the artist's wife from the day before, but it wasn't open until dinner time and we were wanting a late lunch. :( So, that was one place we didn't get to try that she had mentioned as good.

So, we found this quaint little restaurant called Piazzetti.

We had an Aranciata to start.

I had a stuffed pasta dish with sundried tomatoes and goat cheese and homemade bread. It was excellent. 

Then a specialty coffee for afterwards.

Then we ate a molten chocolate cake with salted caramel oozing out of the middle. SOOO good!

Here was the fountain right next to our restaurant. We thought it was pretty unique.

After lunch we wandered some more and found the Notre Dame des Victoires in an adorable courtyard. Below is a sampling of the stores/buildings within the courtyard.

And here is the church.

The victories that this church was named after were both military victories won by the people on Quebec after they prayed for protection and victory in this church.

We saw two more things this day, but they include enough pictures that I didn't want to put them all in one post. Be looking for more tomorrow on the Chute de Montmorency and a quaint little farm with a gorgeous view.

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read: Finished Fire today. It was just as excellent as Graceling. Now, I'm just twiddling my thumbs till Bitterblue comes in from the library.
taste: mac n cheese I stole from Micah
see: clouds and sprinklings of rain. I'm not disappointed about it. :)
hear: The Olympics in the background. US women's volleyball just won against Brazil.
smell: the shampoo in my hair?  Can't think of anything else...
touch: the keyboard
think: waterpolo is a very interesting sport...
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