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We are currently in Toronto, started out by headed up the New England Coast through Connecticut and Maine where we stopped for lunch. Nat and I made a salad in the grocery store in an effort to be good!

Welcome To Canada!!

Tav
2006-01-13 21:02:30

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we had dinner in the revolving restaurant which had great views of the city. It’s no where near the night of Centerpoint in Sydney but it doesn’t need to be given the fact that the buildings around it aren’t that tall either.

After dinner everyone decided to go back to the hotel but Nat, Anna and I decided to walk to ‘Old Quebec’ in search of a night out. We walked via the wall that surrounds the city and found a spot where we could walk on top. We found a club which turned out to be having a French Comedy Night, which from the laughing we are assuming was quiet funny but wasn’t much use to us!!

We went to Café Buade for our dessert and coffee ritual before catching a cab back to our hotel and

where the Battle of the Plains of Abraham took place
went to the local sports bar instead.

There were a couple of people from our tour there so we had a couple of drinks, played a few songs on the jukebox and played pool and watched Grant drink a 4 litre ‘glass’ of beer!! Biggest I’ve ever seen!

We were home by midnight, so I rang my travel agent to try and finish re-organising my trips…. Still not sorted!!!!

The following day we continued our travels along across the St Lawrence River, which you would swear was a harbour joining the seas it was so massive, to Montreal.

We did a short city tour then got some free time. As it was raining we decided to go and have some lunch and try the Canadian specialty of fries, cheese curd and gravy which was just ok….

We headed back to the bus for our jet boating optional at the Lachine Rapids. The weather wasn't exactly balmy, it was gloomy, overcast and a little on the chilly side and if it hadn’t have been pre-booked I might not have gone through with it. The best way I can describe it to you is like being flushed down the toilet bowl…. When we arrived they told

us if we thought that there was a chance we’d stay dry then we were dreaming… we got half wet wool jumpers to put on, purple overalls, satched booties and a life vest and Paddington Bear type raincoat… I looked like an oomper loomper!!

Before we left one of the boys asked if the water was heated?!?!?! It’s a damn river!!

We got on the flat bottomed boat which goes really fast, and started to head up the river. The further we went, the worse the water got. It was easy to tell the river has massive rocks in it judging by the swell size… It looked like a giant whirl pool and I was starting to feel a little more than uncomfortable about the whole deal!! The jet boat sped into the rapids and the boat would lurch down on a sever angle and right through the waves, which probably reached up to 15 foot or so and I cannot describe what It felt like! The water crashed down on us with such force, absolutely drowning us each time, then we would have another run at it and hit the waves side on which sent them crashing in on top

With Ox Blood roof...
of us from the side Nat and I were on. One lot of white water hit Nat so hard it shoved her sideways almost on top of me!! I’m sure this is what a dishwasher feels like!! The water was freezing and ran right down your back and the water came in so hard that at some points the water in the boat was up to our waists when sitting down which produced plenty of squeals!!! I’ve never been as cold or as wet in my life and I have to say I was pretty glad when it was over and got changed into warm dry clothes!!