Sunday, August 17, 2014

Day 7.219: Exile #2's Sunday Column #18

Exile #2 writes...

Nous sommes en vacances! Actually, now we are on vacation, having finished up a few days in French-speaking Quebec City, stopping on our way home for a couple of days in the wilds of northern Maine. I am a city mouse and Exile #1 is a country mouse, so this seemed like a good compromise.

We are finding this is a great time to travel with the kids. Exiles #3 and #4 can now navigate the breakfast buffet with little assistance and none of the kids leave the trail of devastation that they used to. They pack their own amusements and use them (I woke up to find them playing cards this morning, obviously having decided it was too early to wake me up and request TV). Exile #3 is still young enough to be willing to be with us, while E5N1 is now able to keep pace, even when we followed up a morning on our feet at the Musee du Civilisation with a lengthy amble around Quebec's old town. Admittedly this was punctuated by a lengthy and very delicious lunch and we were helped up and down the worst of the hill by the funicular railway and a visit to a store that had an eye-catching display of macarons in the window...

I think we all fell for Quebec's charms. We were sad to leave but happy to arrive at the country leg of our trip. The lake was beautiful this evening and it certainly is quiet...

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