Montreal and Niagara

Bonjour!

It's amazing how little French I actually know.

From Quebec City traveling West to Montreal we didn't notice much of a difference, road signs were still in French and Old Montreal looked a little like Old Quebec. Sadly it was cold and rainy the day we decided to tour Montreal, making it harder to navigate the already confusing roads without our Google maps.

We visited the Basilique Norte-Dame of Montreal, an amazing 200 year old Catholic church and also where Celine Dion (one of my favorite singers) was married.

When we first walked in it took our breath away, it was so beautiful.

Every inch of this church is ornate and colorful.

Candles everywhere.

After a yummy lunch of Crapes and French onion soup we headed back to our car because it was so cold outside. We drove to the Montreal Funiculaire...which is the largest leaning tower in the world, and also the site of the 1976 Olympics.

Our ride to the top.

On a clear day the view would be incredible.

Montreal was one of the hardest city for us to navigate through, but looking back I am so grateful for the experience.

The next day sadly we had to say goodbye to our cousin Madison who was with us for the previous nine days. Lots of tears were shed, we didn't want to see her go. She was the perfect RV guest, always ready to help and so much fun to be around. We love that girl to pieces and she is missed terribly.

I had prepared myself for the next leg of our trip, I knew lots of driving would be involved, which always causes a little stress.

We set off from Montreal to the Toronto, Ontario area. It was an interesting drive...slowly as we headed West the road signs became English. It was neat to see how Quebec is purely French, while Ontario is mostly English.

Other things we noticed about Canada in general is that they make really good Maple syrup and like to put it on just about everything.

They also don't put ice in their drinks...soda's, juice and water, no ice.

What we really had to get used to was the fact that the sun did not set until 10:00 pm at night. It felt like summer, except it was cold. Our poor kids tried their hardest to go to sleep at their usual time.

After a long day of travel to the Toronto area of Canada we decided the next day to take the afternoon off and see Niagara Falls.

Niagara originally was not on our "list" of things to see, but I am so glad we did. We were able to view the sights from the Canadian side, which in our opinion would have been the better side because both waterfalls face it.

The top of the falls.

The American falls.

The girls were so silly that day, probably from the long drive the day before.

After we viewed the falls from the street level we jumped on the Sky Wheel to view them from up high.

I don't know why we always choose to do things that are so high in the air, I get nervous every single time.

Next to the Sky Wheel the kids were able to play a few arcade games...

and Reagan hit the Jackpot big time. She was so excited.

We finished up our lovely day at Cat's Kitchen and Bar...and tried Canadian poutine, which is french fries with gravy and cheese curds. It doesn't sound very appetizing, but it was really yummy.

Niagara was beautiful, even a little romantic...the sound of the waterfalls mixed with beautiful spring flowers made our day so enjoyable. I am glad we didn't skip out on seeing such an amazing wonder.

We crossed the boarder into the US yesterday...

I am happy to report it only took us 5 minutes, we answered a few questions, showed the boarder officer our passports and we were off.

Currently we are situated South of Chicago...excited to check out the windy city tomorrow.