A fun day

On Monday, John took off work in the morning and took us to the Canadian War Museum. They had lots of guns and tanks and airplanes and uniforms for the boys. They had fashion for me.

I had two favorite parts at the museum. One was John's story about when he was looking through the list of items in the archives and asked to see a certain crate. In it was a fully functional 10 megaton practice bomb. They opened the end of it to see the coded locks and timers and whatnot. Here it is.


There were lots of hands-on exhibitions for the kids. Here is my peace-lover saying NO TANKS!


Here are two army people we found on the way.


Andrew plays a lot of battleship. This one is a four-banger.


Andrew and Connor try not to be seen.


Di and Connor try not to be seen.


Then we had fabulous Greek food for lunch.

On Monday afternoon, Pam took off work and took us to the Museum of Civilization. There was a lot to see there and we did all the floors but the very top one. Here are some highlights.

The fantastic beasts exhibit.


The children's museum was all hands-on.


My longshoremen.


The outside of the museum. Does it look like an inuit art face?


Parliament Hill from the Quebec side of the river.


Look out for the helicopter!


Geese and babies.


Then we picked up John and decided we were too stuffed from lunch for a full dinner. Instead we went to a diner for milkshakes (we split them) and poutine. Poutine is fries with cheese curds and brown gravy. Tastes better than it sounds. They say the best poutine is sold by street vendors, but we are not here on a festival weekend.


Then, because we certainly hadn't done enough walking in 2 museums and a couple of blocks to dinner, we walked to the canal and found a geocache.

Tourists on the bridge waved to tourists on the boat.


Can you guess where the cache is?


Pam & John's place.


On Tuesday, we drove past Montreal and Quebec city to northeast Quebec, where we stayed the night. It rained all day and I didn't get any pictures. Today is a hiking day.