08/17/2026
Getting out of Montreal was horrible! Took almost 2 hours. Felt like I was playing football. Yeah! We moved forward 2 feet. Then tried another way on the other side of the city and hit the grid lock too. Lots of construction., although their road condition is horrible. I stopped at a cute antique store warehouse somewhere between Montreal and Quebec.
Then Cassie planned a fun little surprise and directed us to the waterfall in Quebec City. Apparently it is actually taller then Niagara Falls. We started off at the bottom of the falls in a nice little park, you can take a gondola up to the top, the line up was HUGE. Or walk up the mountain on these stair walkway, like what you see on TV shows. I determined that I would probably die if I attempted that. Then we realized you could actually drive and park at the top. At the top is a suspension bridge that goes accross the falls.
Then we headed out. I decided that we would stay in Edmunston, NB. Shortlyt accross the border, except it was around 11 o'clock at night and I didnt actually book a hotel, wasn't sure where I wanted to stop. (it get pitch black out by 9 PM.) So phoned a few places in Edmunston and cities around there. No luck...except 1 place had a room, but the reviews were "this place should be burned down" and there were bullet holes in the windows and dark stains all over. We decided to drive to Frederickton, about 2.5 hours away. I once again, dd not book the hotel in case we found another place to stay. (A bit of foreshadowing) get into Frederickton at 2:09 in the morning, after driving in the pitch black through Appalachian mountain roads ( NB has done an amazing job on that highway though) im sure the scenery would have been beautiful. I am hopeful, I get to actually see some on the way home. Then had trouble getting a room with 2 beds in frederickton, had to phone around a bit. I was thinking we may be sleeping in the car. Did end up with a lovely room, hig9hly reccomend Chateau Frederickton, if you ever around there.
Today we drove around Frederickton, and Oromocto. We tried to see the military base, all we could see was the front gate. We went to Moncton and did the magnetic hil..and checked out the market there.
And then to finish the day, we came to PEI. The bridge is amazing water as far as you can sea.
The red soil mixed with the lush green farmland. I said we were on the "Road to Avonlea" kids had no idea what i was talking about. We did check out Cabot Beach this evening. Will see where tomorrow takes us.
