Montreal Part 2

Monday morning when we met back up we had planned to see the Old Port of Montreal.  As we were walking toward the boardwalk we saw this life size pirate ship with lots of rope obstacle courses.  Dave went to investigate as it looked like a really fun activity.  Turns out it is called Violes en Violes.  Which translates to Sails to Sails.  They have a life size pirate and naval ship that has multiple course going between at different levels of difficulty.  They highest is 35 feet off the ground.  They climbed around for just over 2 hours and still did not get on all the courses.  It was so fun.  

Some neat buildings we could see from the top of the pirate ship.

When Dave and the kids were done playing, we walked around the boardwalk and sat by the lake for our picnic lunch.  After lunch we walked back to see Notre Dame.  We took the tour because Cora loves history and it ended up being quite interesting.  It was then time to go back to the Mission Office.  It was really neat to see how everyone was excited to see Myrna and to help her fill an order.  Blake got a little antsy at this point.  He had a bad headache from the heat, it was seriously so hot and humid, we felt wet and sticky the whole time. Anyways I sat out on a couch with him for a while and we talked, which was nice, as everyone helped with the last few things.  Cora loved being around all the missionaries and Myrna told everyone about her call.  They were all so excited for her.  For dinner we tried another poutine place.  So many different kinds of poutine.  Cora has been planning a poutine party and we discussed how it would be fun to have others bring different toppings for it.  Like a poutine bar.  I think it would be a great party idea.  The one that Cora and I shared below had pulled pork, apples and a maple sorta sauce.

We stopped by Myrna's FHE group to meet those that we hadn't yet and then went for ice cream.  The ice cream shop she took us took was awesome.  Lots of different dip flavors for soft ice cream, hard ice cream, and gelato, plus lots more.  It was so good. 

Tuesday we decided to go to Mont Royal.  We took a bus most of the way and then hiked up the rest of the way.  It was not a hard hike, but again very hot.  Beautiful look out spots.

We had packed a lot of snack because we wanted to have and earlier dinner.  So we snacked as we walked around.  After going to the top and back we got back on the bus for a short ride and a long walk to another church. I wish I could remember the name.  It was not a really ornate church, and I liked it.  Myrna had told us it was 300 steps to the top and I was worried.  But they were easy steps and fun to do.  I actually enjoyed all the walking.  Dave said I looked like I was not having fun most of the time, which is to bad, because I was.  I just don't do well in heat.

We said good-bye to Myrna earlyish after one last stop at the ice cream place.  We had to get up at 4 in the morning Wednesday to catch the bus for the airport.  We made it without trouble.  We had a layover where Cora lives so she just didn't continue on with us and had a friend pick her up at the airport.  It worked out great.  We then got on the tiniest plane my kids had ever been on.  It only sat about 30 people and never got very high.  We didn't make it above the clouds.  We could feel all the air currents.  Blake absolutely loved it.  He kept looking at us with pure joy explaining, " we are going to die!!" 

But we landed safely.

It was a really great trip.  I am so glad we were able to make it work to go.  I loved taking my family to Palmyra and it was so good for Cora to see Grandma.  It will be a long time until they see each other again.  And it is always nice to get away from life for a bit.