Cruise Montreal to Boston 2017
St. Lawrence seaway from a Quebec Hill
We're taking a cruise! With the family! Starting from Montreal, stopping in Quebec City, Charlotteville (Prince Edward Island), Sydney (Nova Scotia), Bar Harbor (Maine), and ending in Boston.
You know how food on a cruise ship is always too much? We decided we should start by eating on land-lol! Fun salad at Mandy's. Casual spot, with outdoor seating for people watching. Boarding is fun and easy and the first couple hours are spent getting to know where everything is on the boat.
First stop is Quebec City, full of history and public art.
Being right on the river everything is uphill which means good views of the river once you make it to the top.
Great job on the public flowers and park spaces Quebec City!
Public art that has a soundscape! Not as melodic as wind chimes but not annoying, along the lines of leaves in the breeze.
Sorry there is no translation- but it is basically suspended necklaces of steel hooks. It is representing the
Quebec Conference of 1864-key time in Canadian history.
It's massive and tucked away but in a good windy spot.
Singular clock-specially made as a gift from Switzerland. Great display of the inner workings. Pretty cool just to watch the time go by.
Particularly liked this public art which feels like it is incorporating multiple different aspects of Quebec into one statue/fountain.
Gates into Quebec are a big theme.
And it is a fountain!
Day at Sea! Spent the afternoon in the pool and then the cooking demonstration. Nice kitchen set-up, learned techniques and got some good recipes. Big excitement of the day was someone had a medical emergency and the Coast Guard had to come pick them up. We were watching the boat approach, then all of a sudden they turned around and later a second boat came over. Some bigger emergency called away the first boat-mysterious! People watching is definitely part of what to do on a cruise.
On to PEI. Home of Anne of Green Gables. So one thing that everyone should probably do is see the long running play based on the books-I've heard it is quite good. So of course we didn't do that ;) Instead I signed us all up to visit Island Falconry Services. OMG So good! These folks who run a falconry (!) show visitors their raptors.
They perch on your wrist! You learn all about the birds and how they meticulously track what each one eats to insure a balance of protein, calcium and what not.
They fly to your wrist from a tree!
Plus we found this fuzzy caterpillar.
Movie night was a big family time. A cute theater that had popcorn was the first stop, but if it was not something we were interested in they had a huge selection of DVDs for in room viewing. We saw Beauty and the Beast, Boss Baby, Cars, Hidden Figures, WALL-E, Madeline and only the first 10 minutes of Shrek (too scary).
