Good day everyone! Jon and I woke up at 9am to see the changing of the guards at 10am at La Citadelle. Unfortunately, the weather was cloudy and it was about to rain so they didn’t have the changing of the guard ceremony. They didn’t want to the guards’ wool jackets.
Anyways, Jon and I took a tour around la Citadelle. You need to join a tour group in order to see the grounds as it is an active military base. La citadelle was built by the British to protect against American invasion. The Americans had tried to invade twice prior to building La citadelle. It is in the shape of a star because at the tips of the star, the soldiers could use a cross fire (an X) pattern so enemies couldn’t hide. At the tip of the star, there are large cannons that could fire up to 5 kms. La citadelle was also built along the St. Lawrence river so that they could defend against attacks from the river. There is only one passageway that goes into the fort. It only fits one vehicle at a time. There were soldiers who live in the fort during summer. There is also a place for the governor general to stay.
In addition, we saw 2 military museums. One of the buildings called “a fort inside a fort” had narrow slits on the outside which face the passageway. This is where the soldiers would hide when the fort has been overtaken. The narrow slits make it hard of people on the outside to fire in. However, when you look from inside the building, it is much wider. It looks like a V shape with the narrow on the outside and the wider part on the inside. This place also used to be a jail for soldiers who disobeyed orders such as possessing alcohol.
Last but not least, I saw the Caucasian version on my family. They had 7 kids, two of which were girls. The girls were either the 2nd oldest or the 2nd youngest, like my family.
Afterwards, Jon and I walked around Old Quebec that was located behind the walls. We ate grilled sandwiches. Jon had an italien sandwich and I had a blt sandwich. It was delicious but, we only had granola bars, peas, and fortune cookies for breakfast so we were hungry.
We walked into Chateau Frontenac but didn’t want to pay to go on a tour. It had a nice interior though. Afterwards, we walked around Old Quebec some more. We went into the gift shops but couldn’t afford anything there either. I really liked this shirt which had fleur de lis and the word Quebec underneath. It reminded me of an ADIDAS logo. However, they mainly came in men sizes but the women sizes that we did find was more expensive.
I did manage to go to Simons. This is a large department store found only in Quebec. I bought a yellow girly shirt. Jon was really good! He didn’t whine or complain when I was shopping. In fact, he asked if I wanted to look in other areas too. Ha ha. However, he reminds me that it’s only because we’re on vacation...but we’ll see.
We later had an oreo mcflurry. It was quite expensive compared to at home. It costed $4.50 for a large. Oh well! We also saw people eating Mcpoutines.
Afterwards, we drove to the Old Port and walked around Plein Art and Marche du Vieux Port. Plein Art was a marketplace for local artists. We saw lots of nice jewellery, leather bags and baby clothes. Marche du Vieux Port is like Granville Island. It’s a market that sells produce and other foods. We bought rubbery cheese curds that are used in poutine. It had such a weird texture because when you chew, you would hear squeaking noises.
We walked around some more. However, we were quite tired by then. So we found a bench and took a nap for an hour. In that area, there was a play area with cannons and wooden cut outs. After that, we took the funicular, a slanted cable car, from lower part of Quebec to the upper part of Quebec. Then we returned to our car, and bought food from Metro, a supermarket.
We made tortellini pasta with vodka sauce. We also had a Caesar salad with chicken, bacon and croutons.
Jon and I have decided to travel to the Maritimes. We’ll be spending about 13 days there. We’ll come back on Sept 5th. Just in time for school.
Anyways, have a wonderful night everyone!
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