NE Trip 2016
Day 7 - Sat Sep 3 2016

Breakfast this morning was outside our room hanging on a little peg by the door.  It was an insulated bag that contained a couple of croissants with a raisin type filling. Delicious.  There was also Orange juice and a couple of muffins.  Coffee was in the room.  Very nice, but no protein.  We knew we'd have to eat something else in a little while.
We walked to the Petit Champlain area - A few square blocks of very European-like shops and restaurants.  Pics to come at a later time.
We will always remember today as the Day of the Plains of Abraham.
The girl from last night said we should definitely see it.  She said to walk i would be maybe 45 minutes.  She might have been right, but she forgot to mention the hill we'd need to climb.  Actually we may have misunderstood.  We followed the St. Lawrence.  Very nice walk, but we started to get tired and realized the Plains of Abraham were on the other side of the mountain. We stopped at a little store.  The proprietor didn't speak English very well (better that our French) and we left there thinking we had to head back south then turn west, then climb the mountain.  We ran into a couple from Montreal who were looking for the same access to the PofA.  He seemed to know where he was going so we followed him.  After much more walking in the original direction we were heading, we found the park access.  We ended up in a very nice section of Quebec.  Not sure if we missed anything to do with the PofA, we were too tired to really explore.  We started out walking back towards Old Quebec.  We discovered a pretty cool few blocks - restaurants and shops, people walking around with bottles of wine - not opened, but not bagged either.  We continued our walk and decided to grab the next city bus.  We got on and asked if it was going to Old Quebec.  Nice driver - he said it was just 3 stops ahead and let us on without paying.  He saved us maybe a kilometer or two of walking.  He dropped us off about a 10 minute walk from our hotel.  We ended up walking more than 10 KM today - a lot of hills thought.  
But the day wasn't over.  We stopped and had dinner at a Greek place a block from our hotel.  We stopped at teh room before heading back to the circus performance.  In the room, I couldn't find my phone.  We called it and Janice thought someone answered, so she ran back to the Greek place to see if it was there.  I tried not to panic.  Turns out it was in her purse.  Like I said, we were tired.
We walked the half mile or so to the circus venue and made it in tonight - after waiting on line for about an hour!  Pretty cool show - lasted an hour.  A Cirque de Soleil type circus.
We walked back to Petit Champlain, had some really good ice cream, then back to the room.
Tomorrow - the farmer's market across the street, the Montmorency Falls, then on to Bar Harbor!