Day 2: Old Town - Curling - Carnaval - Huron Wendake

By Isabelle and Austin

We started our day with breakfast at the hotel. After that, we took a bus tour of Québec City. Our tour guide, Richard, talked about many of the town’s landmarks, including the Notre-Dame Des Victoires, the oldest church in the city; the St. Lawrence River; Rue Saint-Pierre (a.k.a “little Wall Street”); the Plains of Abraham; and the Place of Arms. Richard told us some of the history of each landmark, including famous battles fought at the Plains of Abraham. After the tour, we had an hour of free time. One group went to a nearby bakery and did some shopping for souvenirs, and the other one had lunch at a fancy restaurant.

Afterward, we met at one of the gates in the wall surrounding the old town, and then boarded the moach to go to a curling lesson. At first, it was really confusing, but it was also interesting. We had a lot of fun trying to slide the stones towards the target and our two teams finished tied.

After we finished curling, we took the moach to the Winter Carnival. There, we explored the ice castle, met with Bonhomme Carnaval, built towers with ice cubes, played many more games.

We then visited a Native American reservation of the Huron Wendake. Our guide, Brian, taught us about many elements of the Huron culture, like the different types of shaman masks. We finished our day with dinner at the reserve, which was delicious. Right before leaving, we learned about the Huron creation myth and watched a performance by Huron dancers. For the last dance, they had us join in, and we danced out of the room!

PS: The internet connection is very poor, so we can hardly upload photos and will create a Google folder tomorrow with many more pictures. Time to go to bed!