La Ville de Quebec!

After a few weeks of waiting, we finally went and just came back from an exciting and fun weekend in Quebec City. It was about 3 hours by bus, and unfortunately we had to take school buses. We also stayed in dorms on the Laval University campus in single rooms (2 people a room) which brought back memories of dorming at UB…good and bad memories of course…but at any rate, we got our bus tickets and took the bus into downtown Quebec which only took about 15 minutes. On Friday night, we mostly explored the new city, which has so many diverse/interesting restaurants. We settled on this place called Blu which was kind of like a TGI Friday’s, but a bit nicer. I got the salmon fettucini, w/ 2 kinds of salmon, smoked and cooked which was pretty good. I tried a glass of white wine with it from France and that was good also. We did some typical tourist shopping in the new part of the city and came upon a free concert (Quebecois music). We then ventured into the old city to do yet again more shopping and explore. The next day it was raining like crazy in the morning and so we had to find some ponchos…for lunch we settled on an Irish bar called St Patrick’s in the old city and I had some fish and chips and some white house beer that tasted like Blue Moon which was pretty tasty…we walked around yet some more and took some awesome pictures of Charlevoix right by the St Lawrence River. Later on, we were so exhausted we sat down at a bar on the Grand Allee (by another gov’t building) and I tried a red beer (like Killian’s) that was a bit sweeter than I’m used to. I could have seen Sting and Kiss at an outdoor concert, but we were too busy exploring etc…It would have been amazing I’m sure, and if we were there longer than a week I would have made the time to go…Overall my second experience 11 years later in Quebec City was pretty awesome…but I wish I stayed in a hotel than student dorms at Laval :o( Anyway, I only have a week more to go of classes which is nice. I do like it here, but I’m also looking forward to seeing everyone!