Quebec City The Sugar Shack

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As I enter Quebec City through a bridge, I saw the hotel I was going to stay in. It's called the Hotel Gouvenor. On the first night of my arrival at Quebec. I travelled to the Sugar sack which was 45 minutes north of my hotel. It was in the rural parts of Quebec , but the farmland was huge. There were trees specifically marked by rope to symbolize the fact that they were harvestin Maple Syrup. The owner and his family gather maple syrup everyday and boil it to make it syrup. If you don't boil it, it's maple sap, not syrup. I first took the owner's train/bus tour of their large farmland. It was amazing;trees everywhere and the view was awesome. After our little ride around the estate, I went into the sack and drank Maple sap. The guide explained how they make it, who first discovered it and how they make it. They have to place a pipe on the tree, take out the sap and place it in a bucket. Then they boil the sap like we boil waater. They boil it until the sap is sweet and sticky. I drank the sap/syrup in a cup. It tasted really good. It was sweet and pure sugar. Then I enjoyed a nice rural Quebec dinner. I had soup , and everything Quebec. I was entertained by the music that was played. There was singing, dancing, and guitar playing. I had a wild and fun night. The dancing was western style dancing with do-si-do and Wild west style.
For a final dessert at the Sugar Shack, I got to eat fresh taffy. The Taffy was pure sugar and delicious. The owner has to first pour fresh,boiled maple syrup on the snow and we collect all of it on the popisicle stick by rolling the stick on the syrup. I ate the taffy 3 times and had a sugar headache because of its sweety goodness. I had a great night and the owner was really nice to his customers. I brought back two bottles of maple syrup. They have the cheapest maple syrup. It was 10 dollars a bootle. Seven dollars cheaper than the Chateau Fortnac maple syrup.

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Montreal has great sites, tall skyscrapers and a great Olympic village. It has everything from 18th Century resturants to the Tallest leaning tower. Quebec City has the sugar shack ,old buildings and great 400 year old architecture. The Chateau Frotnac is one of the many unique archiectureal achievements.

Montreal has great sights on the top of the tallest leaning tower. You could see the entire city of Montreal on the top.Did you know that Montreal is on an island? To get to Montreal, you must come into the city through bridges and tunnels. When I arrived by Amtrack ,I went through a dark Tunnel. One of the bridges is the Pierre Lapont Bridge. This bridge is the longest spanning bridge in Canada.

Travelling by Amtrack is great but the travel time is 11 hours. Eleven hours on a extremely chilly train with uncomfortable seats is torture.The only good aspect of Amtrack is that they have a snack cart. On the snack cart, you can play cards, board games and eat snacks purchased from the snack cart.
Montreal has several man made islands because they were for the World Expo. Different countries needed space to exhibit their technology and progress. So they built man made islands just for the purpose of display and exhibit during the expo. On another island is an amusement park with exhilerating rollar coasters and rides.
Did you know that in Chinatown at Montreal, there is a building where the fortune cookies were first invented and manufactured? It's true the fortune cookies were first made in Montreal and they ship the fortune cookies to New York and all over the world. Then on the opposite side of the building where the fortune cookie was first made, is a sign with chinese characters. I travelled to Montreal at the right time to watch the people set up for the Jazz Festival.Every year Montreal has a Jazz festival celebrating jazz, musicans all around the world come to play their Jazz music. People can watch and listen with free admissions. Cirque du soleil will be there and the Circus under the Sun will perform their world famous talented circus acts. They have special decorations at the festivals just for the Cirque du soleil. The lights are decorated to represent the sun.
After you have taken the tour of Montreal with a tour guide, you can go at night and listens to ghosts. These ghosts haunt the city of Montreal with stories of their past. They have been rumored to be scary beyond belief. They tell their story wth blood hanging from the side of their face and rags as the remainder of their clothes. They are just actors that try to tell a story about their past and what they did for Montreal in the 17th , 18th and 19th centuries. There is the founder of Montreal's ghost screaming and looking up all the time. He discovered montreal and thought he brought back diamonds back to Europe, but they were quartz. They were worthless, so he had to deliever the bad news to widows about their husbands being killed by a disease in the new world. The founder and the person who discovered Quebec was furious that his crew died of disease and that he brought back worthless quartz.
As I drive 3 hours north to Quebec City, the capital of Quebec Provinence, I saw the many acres of arable farmland on the drive to Quebec City. They had tons of farm land with many good crops.