After The Weekend

What a whirlwind! We did so much this weekend that it would be impossible to list it all here, but here's a summary.

On the first day in Québec City, we went to Old Québec (spent a lot of time in that part of town), and we had lunch on the Plains of Abraham, one of the many ancient battlefields in the area, which I found out is a world heritage site. Other than that, we went to Chute de Montmorency, which is a waterfall that is taller than Niagra Falls. On day two, there was a big celebration for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics near L'Assemblée Nationale, as the 2006 Canadian National Olympic Congress was there, so there was a free concert as part of the Star Academie (French version of Canadian Idol) tour, and afterwards found the group from Saint Élie, and we all went to Galleries De La Capital for Mega Salon de L'Été. It was a huge festival in the amusement park at the mall (it's a Québec version of West Edmonton Mall almost). One of the booths was for a boating school that was there to promote awareness of the "Pleasure Craft Operator's Card" which is basically a drivers licence for speedboats (now mandatory for operating a speedboat or other motorized pleasure craft in Canada). They were doing testing there, so I went in and did the test, and passed (narrowly, one more wrong question and I would've failed), so now all I have to do is pay the $40 issuing fee, and I am a licensed pleasure craft operator.

Myself and the other group members have tons of pictures, so I will be posting to my photo album site soon, watch for them!