Quebec

July 6
We crossed over into Canada around 9am and skirted the city of Montreal
taking Rt. 15 to 117. Quebec…is another world. Everything is in French, all street signs, ads, etc. English is spoken but very broken every place we have gone. We stopped at a restaurant that had a chicken on the sign thought it was like a KFC, but it was a very nice restaurant, St. Hubert. We had split a chicken sandwich with brie cheese, also had cole slaw, that had no mayo, it was great, a small cup of soup that was spicy with curry in it, and French fries. We are taking the scenic route over the mountains with many lakes along the way. Gene did not want to drive through the big cities and all the tourist places along the Great Lakes. It is HOT. People we spoke to said it is very unusual to be so warm. When we stopped at 6pm it was 88 degrees but we are on a lake that has a nice breeze off it. We turned on the generator and air conditioning. It is 91 in the rv. Once we were set up we went for a walk. Coming back to the rv we noticed a bear trap across the way from us. The campground is Re’serve faunique at Lac Rapide.
As we walked around the campground we noticed the most beautiful grey and black husky dog with blue eyes. Gene said sit and it did much to our surprise…I had to take a picture.
We will go across Canadian Providences and are meeting our friends Dixie and Jim in Hyder, Alaska around July 27.

We will not have any phone service until we get into Alaska and since we can’t get wifi where we are I am going to post messages.

No phone calls. The phone service is on roaming and cost is high.
Please hold off in sending cute emails. I am having a problem sending and receiving.
Hopefully we will get into a big town where we can get this straightened out.

July 5

We left the campground about 9am and headed to route 202, then to 93 and then 89 to Milton Vermont. The temperature is in the 90's but it was a beautiful drive through the Green Mountains. We found a campground that had email so I could update my blog. I am begrudgingly staying here because the information we got at a visitors center said one thing and when we got here it was $5 more for camping and $ 2 extra for email. Oh well...Tomorrow we will cross the boarder into Montreal Canada.
We have had a great 7 weeks or so with family and friends.

PS...I am having trouble downloading and sending my emails.

July 4

July 4, 2010

Christi & Krieg, friends of Norene’s, invited us to a picnic in her huge yard. Norene lived near Christi when she livid in Maine. So Christi invited all of Noreen’s friends that she worked with for 21 years and others. Christi organized a sack race and other games for the kids. They had a good time. She & her husband made kabobs, hot dogs, hamburgers, and chicken. Brandi made potato salad and others brought fruit salad, macaroni salad, etc. It was HOT & humid. Towards the evening we said our good buys and came back to the camper and started putting things away to leave tomorrow morning heading to Canada.

July 3, 2010

When we were at Sam’s yesterday we were looking at mattresses. We spoke to Jen & Mike and they agreed to come over and drive there truck to Sam’s. After getting the mattress we came back to the camper and exchanged mattresses, giving Jen the one from our camper. They will either use it or get rid of it for us. Looking forward to a good nights sleep.
It is time to leave here. The temperature is rising and it is hot enough to use air conditioning. The low tonight will be 55. Tomorrow is going to be a hot one.

more July 1 pics.

July 1

July 1, 2010
The campground found a spot for us for the rest of the week, so we will be here until July 5, 2010, when we leave to head west across Canada.. It is one of the nicest campgrounds with wide spaces between campers. They also have a great tent area in the woods.
About 2 pm we left the cg and went to pick up Jolene, Jeff and Denver to go to Old Orchard Beach. We were treating the for the anniversary. We walked around the boardwalk and stepped in and out of stores. We then went to a great restaurant and had surf & turf which was really good. The lobster was excellent. After diner we walk around and Jeff decided to get a henna tattoo on his back. It started to rain so we stepped into a book store for a while. I bought great granddaughter Brailynn some books. Denver got to play in the arcade and we sat and watched a group called “The Sidecar Heroes”. All the music was sung with out instruments. The singers made there own instrument sounds. They were very good.
By the way, the weather has been great. With only one humid day in our visit this week, the days in the low 70’s and nights getting down to the low 50’s, sleeping has been wonderful.

July 27-30

June 27 - 30
We have moved to a local campground to empty our RV tanks. We have air conditioning, water and it is has a small animal farm with llama, goats, geese, lambs and horses so we decided to stay here. They only have a spot for us till Friday. We will have the kids come here for the day.
Tuesday evening we went to Jennifer & Mikes house for diner, after picking Norene up, and had a great evening with Austin and Brandon and all.
Wednesday I did laundry, Gene cleaned the front of the trailer. Jeff, daughters Kasidy & Kaitlin and his stepson Denver came up for the afternoon. The kids had fun feeding the animals and playing in the playground. Tomorrow we are taking Jeff and Jolene out for their anniversary on Friday.