Happy Little Adventures!

This is the start of a new day, since I've scrapped my old glasses that I couldn't really see out of anyway, and replaced them with these gold rimmed glasses. I can't see without contacts or glasses, but have used contacts to the point of irritating my eyes. What do you think?!

First stop, board walk of the St. Lawrence River. Hotel Frontenac in background.

I am going to start calling our little family excursions, road trips, and other outings as our Happy Little Adventures. Why not? Although these adventures are filled with moments of whining and impatience, the reason we do them is because we enjoy them as a family - it's fun, and our girls love to see new things.

Team members of this weekend's Happy Little Adventure was: Me, Craig, the girls, and my dad and my mom. Destination was Quebec City, Quebec. Home of the only entirely walled city in North America. It's three hours north of Montreal on a two lane freeway, and not nearly close to the traffic we experience going into the states.

We arrived around 12:30 and parked down by the river in a parking structure. We headed first to the river boardwalk. They are doing some excavating at the Chateau Frontinac a very large beautifully built old hotel that is in the center of old town Quebec. Took some pictures including the one above of me and mum - in the SPT spirit!

We then headed to eat at a great Breton crepe place. Guess how long we had to wait to eat our food - 60 minutes! And guess how long it took us to get out of the restaurant - 90 minutes! It was long, and I can almost say it was worth it - but next time we will definitely eat somewhere else. If you go and there's no line - definitely worth it! We walked around old time but ended up doing this:

It was a lot of fun, as I don't recall ever doing a carriage ride before, unless it's been called a "Hay ride!" The man who took us was very funny and spoke a great deal about how great Quebec is compared with America. We let him, because it was all in good fun.

It started to rain while we were in the carriage!

Nini feeding the horse after the ride. She originally would have nothing to do with it, but mustered enough courage to reach this carrot out to the horse! Good for you Nini!

Petite Champlain is the lower section of old Quebec, we didn't have time to enjoy the street, but ran down the steps to take this picture. Will have to hit it next time!

A big thank you goes out to Scribbit who mentioned me and my old time friend Heffalump (who happens to be my partner in crime on #63 on my 100 list) Also, I was tagged by cutie Maria the other day which I really appreciate.

4 Jobs I've had:

1. Sweeping pine needles off my parent roof (bought my first ten-speed bike with the money)
2. Summer nanny between Junior and Senior year.
3. Marketing Director for computer company.
4. Piano and Violin Instructor.-

4 Places I've lived:
1. Battle Ground, WA
2. Alexandria, VA
3. Lancaster, CA
4. Draper, UT

4 favourite TV shows:

1. NCIS - love this show, and so much less explicit than CSI.
2. So you think you can dance! Love, love his show!
3. BBC's murder mysteries - Inspector Lynly and Murder in Suburbia are my Fav!
4. The Office - hilarious!

4 favourite foods:

1. Chocolate - counts as food.
2. Hamburgers - I could have one everyday :-)
3. Ritz Crackers with cream cheese.
4. Fries.

4 Websites I frequent:

1. Foxnews.com
2. Anthropologie.com
3. Blogging friends
4. Ebay.com

4 Places I'd rather be right now:

1. Eating chocolate while reading my Harry Potter book - I'm on page 200!
2. Sleeping
3. Italy
4. Cannon Beach, Oregon

4 Movies:

1. Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)
2. Gladiator
3. Ocean's 11
4.Harry Potter - all of them

4 bloggers I tag next:

1. Charity
2. Sydney
3. Heffalump
4. Rachel