Friday – September 8 – Well, the nice weather was short lived, we woke up this morning to cloud and scattered showers. I turned on the computer after I had my shower this morning and had an internet connection so managed to download my e-mail but it wasn’t strong enough to do my blog and then when we got home tonight there was nothing.



It finally cleared up about 11:30 so we decided to head out to St. Anne de Beaupre. It was a nice drive and the traffic wasn’t too bad, also the weather cleared and warmed up so it turned out to be a nice afternoon. St. Anne de Beaupre is absolutely gorgeous and we spent a couple of hours touring the basilica and surroundings. I don’t really remember a lot about it from the last time I was there but that was 50+ years ago!

We then toured around Mont St. Anne which was a gorgeous drive, but very narrow roads, then came back towards Quebec on Rue Royale for a while. The homes were gorgeous, a mixture of old and new and I was amazed at the number of homes which still have lace curtains with pull down shades - I can’t remember when I last saw those in Ontario. The favourite roof in the rural area is tin and there are many beautiful shades, we saw one house which was bright yellow with a bright blue tin roof and brown trim – a bit too colourful! Also, most houses have porches, a lot made of fancy ironwork and in places the porches just about hung over the road. All in all it was a pretty drive. We drove by Montmorency Falls and saw them from the road but it was getting too late to stop when we went by on our way home so will have to go back there again.

We were looking for diesel to feed the truck and at every single gas station the price of gas was $0.984 and diesel varied between $1.059 and 1.099, no bargains to be had here!

After we got back and were ready to barbeque it started to pour, fortunately it is coming from the west and we are facing east so John was okay under the awning and it didn’t last too long – just off and on during the evening. On the way out this morning we stopped and checked the weather and tomorrow is supposed to be rainy but nice on Sunday so we booked a tour of old Quebec for Sunday, now we just have to hope the weather forecast was right!