Today we had a district dinner at our apartment. Sister Pollock will be going home next transfer and this was our last supper.
I made lasagna and the missionaries brought salad, bread and dessert. I made four pans of lasagna - a small one for Sister Giustini without meat, one to take to Sister Ross later and two pans for the missionaries. There was about half of one pan left after dinner and we sent it home with the missionaries.
I forgot to post our food adventure from last week. After we hiked Mont Royale, we stopped at Schwartz's Deli for a smoked meat sandwich.
Waiting in line outside the deli
The place is a dive; only has eight tables inside and everyone is on top of each other during the experience. It's world famous, so the waiter kept telling us. May be, but we had never heard of it until our friends from Las Vegas told us about it.
Inside of Schwartz's Deli
The sandwich was good - the best smoked meat we've had here. But it still doesn't beat a New York City deli pastrami on rye!
We are preparing for a mission tour with Elder Sean Douglas and his wife Ann. We had an hour Zoom call last Sunday evening to prepare for the hour and a half Zoom call with Elder Douglas on Tuesday. Then we had another hour and a half Zoom call with Elder Douglas to follow up the Tuesday call. We will have Zone Conference with Elder and Sister Douglas in person on Friday.
During the practice part of District Council this week, we went street contacting in Angrignon Park near the chapel. We walked through a different section of the park than we are usually in (this is the park we walk through to get to the metro). This really is a beautiful park.
On Friday and Saturday we had another senior outing to Quebec City. It is a three hour drive from Montréal. We went in a van with Elder and Sister Fackrell, who just arrived from Olathe Kansas, Sister Drews and Sister Proctor. The first counselor in the mission presidency lives in Quebec City. He and his wife invited us to their home for a BBQ, then were our tour guides for the remainder of the trip.
We started with Bonne Sainte Anne cathedral, completed in 1946. The tile work inside was amazing.
This pillar hold the canes and crutches of people who have been healed
Second chapel in the basement
After the cathedral we went to a chocolate factory and ice cream shop. I had the best dipped cone ever!
The "cone-ifer" tree outside the shop
A bunch of old folks eating ice cream
By the way, locals call Quebec City "Quebec". They feel they are the one and only true Quebec so no need to add city to the name.
Our next stop was Parc de la Chute-Montmorency, 15 minutes from Old Quebec. It is pretty spectacular. The falls are 83 meters (272 feet) high. There is a foot bridge over the falls and stairs down to a second observation point. They have a zip line over the falls but it wasn't operating when we were there, or I would have zipped across.
This is the view from the street of the foot bridge over the falls. The large bridge in the distance crosses the Montmorency River. The Montmorency drains into the Saint Lawrence about six miles downstream.
These are two videos I took standing on the foot bridge; one as the water starts to fall, the second as it goes over the side and down.
You can climb down these stairs to the bottom
The falls from the second view point.
We stayed in a lovely hotel on the Saint Lawrence River. This was the view out our room window.
We spent most of Saturday morning at Battlefield Park where the Plains of Abraham are located. The battle of the Plains of Abraham was a pivotal battle in The Seven Years War which took place on 13 September 1759. There were a lot of informational markers and I took pictures rather than writing everything out.
Replica of the inside of a tower
We had lunch and spent the afternoon in Old Quebec. We wished we had had more time to wander through the streets.
It was pouring rain so there weren't many people on the streets. The Château Frontenac is a historic hotel built by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Now it is a fancy shmancy Fairmont Hotel, way out of our price range! Several movies have been filmed there and during WWII the allies met there on two occasions.
We arrived home about 7:30 Saturday evening. I made all the lasagna before going to bed, which helped make the Sabbath more restful for me! Two babies were blessed in our ward today - and they are cousins. We were able to hear the blessing of our great grandson James via Zoom today.
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