ACCRT Day 2

Sorry for the lack of blogging yesterday everyone. We were very tired when we got back to the hotel last night and weren’t able to stay up to blog so I’m going to catch up right now.

Before we left we grabbed the continental breakfast at the hotel. I opted for a bowl of fruit salad and a blueberry muffin with a glass of oj.

On Monday morning we got up around 7 for what we thought would be a rather short and uneventful trip to Ottawa. We thought we’d hit some of the traffic in Montreal but other than that we thought it would a pretty good day. Boy were we wrong. It started first by us getting a little lost trying to get out of Riviere du Loup and then we had difficulty finding a gas station so all in all we were running behind by an hour.

The rest of the morning didn’t go as planned as well. The kitty (even though he wasn’t in the cage) cried for about 3 hours until we stopped for lunch.

My mid-morning snack wasn’t very healthy either. From Tim’s – peach juice

And a donut. I can’t even remember the last time I had a donut.

Lunch was a little better. Subway.

And a Kashi bar.

After lunch Charlie found our cooler and pushed it open and climbed in. He was happy for the rest of the trip.

Some other problems we had were that the roads in Quebec were horrible and the drivers were terrible.

Here are some pictures from the first part of the morning.

 

 

 

Around 2 we were driving into Montreal and our GPS told us that there was traffic up ahead so it was re-calculating a new route for us. This new route ended up taking us through downtown Montreal and under the city going about 100 km/hr under the city in the tunnel.

 

 

 

 

Just after leaving Montreal we hit the Quebec/Ontario border.

We hit Ottawa around 4:30, showered, changed and walked down to the parliament buildings to try and make a tour. The tour took about and hour and was very cool. We got some pretty cool pics as well.

 

 

 

 

 

We also got some beautiful shots of the city.

 

 

After all the walking around we headed out for dinner. We stopped at a Scottish pub.

We started with the roasted garlic cheese wedges. (Yes that is roasted garlic right on the bread – NOM).

Then I opted for a cheese pizza (do you notice the theme here?)

So yummy!!!

By the time we got back to the hotel I was exhausted and wasn’t able to blog so I just headed to bed. Overall, it started out as a pretty long day but it turned out great in the end.

I’m a day behind on my blogging but I will try to catch up tomorrow and write two posts. I hope everyone is enjoying the cross Canada updates and pictures.

~ Katie :)