Our second day IN Quebec City started out raining and our attempt to see the changing of the guards at the citadel ( with a goat!) ended in disappointment. However, we did take a lovely tour of the citadel and then walked to the Plains of Abraham for a bus tour around the park where the 15 minute battle between English and French troops happened back in 176-something.
We had lunch at a cute Japanese place called Ginko and then we walked back to the old city. We stopped for yummy pastry at a local place called Paillard and waited for a small rainstorm to pass by. We then headed to the hotel and relaxed from the heat in our room for a while. In the late afternoon we wandered into the Festival de Nouvelle France for ahile and listened to music we couldn't understand. It was very nice with people dressed in costumes and singing and all.
For dinner we stopped in at a place called the Cafe du Monde (nothing like the one in New Orleans). I had steak tartare, which was...odd. We then took the ferry across the St. Lawrence River to Levis to see the city lit up. It was very cooling to be on the boat with a breeze.