Montreal 6/23/08

Hello All:

We have been in Montreal for a couple of days. We are docked right in the middle of the old city - it is a very old city. Many of the building around us were built in the 1700 and 1800s. There was a lot of activity over the weekend - As I said before, Quebec is celebrating it's 400th birthday this year. There was a fireworks display on Saturday night that we could see from the boat. We are going to do a city tour later today.

Note the picture of the boat with the tug. It is one of the old boats that was used in the historic canals and was pulled by oxen or mules. It is being moved (by a tug boat and an inflatable boat) from a maritime museum to Quebec City for the summer, quite a process to go through a 100 foot lock.

I've also added a picture of the one lock on our trip with a floating dock inside the lock - the easiest lock we've ever been in. The strike here in the Canadian national parks evidently not happen. Good news for us. The rest of our trip will take place as planned - barring any further problems.

See you out there somewhere.

Rob & Ann