gold for John Walker

Again more driving this time we started from Quebec and then drove down to Montréal, arriving just after lunch. Again, a warm sunny day (by Canada standards at least).

First stop on arrival after lunch was to climb the hill overlooking town called Mt Royal. Did you know that Montréal was named after that!? It was fun Amy Emma and I fed the squirrels they look so cute! We got a great view of the town from there even tho it was foggy. The hill wasn’t very steep so it was a nice walk, we then headed back to the camper and off to Olympic stadium.

Mum had a lie down in the camper while me Amy, Emma and Dad went and checked out the stadium. The Olympic swimming and diving was complex was open – cool 2 imagine the Olympics being held right in that pool. And this was also the stadium where John Walker won gold in the 1500m back in 1976. (Dad is always good for history lessons, particularly of the sporting variety!) We could not go to the top of Olympic stadium because it was foggy and unfortunately the last stadium tour was done for the day. Still cool to look around the complex & we played on the fountain (no water at this time of the year) until the security man shooed us away!

Interestingly, the Montreal Olympic stadium is still the tallest incline building in the world!

We stayed the night in a Wal-mart carpark it was really freezing because the furnace was not working – it was making a funny sound. Also hardly any lights because the battery was flat. In the morning it was 35F so I had to freeze just to go to the bathroom, hopefully we will get all our problems fixed tomorrow!!!

Lots of love from a cold Deanna!