Well, since last time… I guess a lot has happened. I have been a lazy blogger. I'm not gonna lie, I'm already kind of tired of it. I guess I'll be home soon enough anyway.
So, I had been working on my project for several hours, and cabin fever set in. It hasn’t really been a problem the past two weeks, but I guess with the “stress” of having all these assignments due this week, plus knowing its our last week here, I just got antsy. Imagine that. Holly, Amanda, and I were hanging out in the lobby (I’m pretty sure I was frustrated with the Internet, too), and I said I wanted to get out and do something. Holly said, “Well there’s a guided tour of the Chateau that starts in 15 minutes! Do y’all want to go?” I said why not, so we hopped up and walked to the Chateau.
The tour was really great! It was a 50-minute tour packed with information about the historic hotel. Did you know the Big 3 planned D-Day there? They had the hotel rented out for three weeks and no one else was allowed inside. No, Will and Kate did not stay there when they visited Canada a few weeks ago.
View from one of the rooms
I took this so you can see the roof - rooms are stuck in every corner and crevice!
Our tour guide showing us a replica of the hotel
View of the promenade
One of the meeting rooms - this fireplace is original to the hotel!
Voila
Yet another view, from the hallway
One day when I’m super rich, I’ll stay there.
Our cabin fever persisted, so after dinner we set out for the restaurant we call “the spinny bar.” The spinny bar is a restaurant at the top of a hotel that rotates. I can’t remember where I have seen one/been to one in the US? But anyway, its real name is l’Astral. We intended to just go to the top and have a look, but an hour and a half later we had enjoyed a glass of Quebecois ice cider and made a full rotation around the restaurant! The ice cider was tasty and it went perfectly with the Quebecois atmosphere of the restaurant + view of the city.
Tuesday was pretty nondescript so I won’t bore you with details. Drew took our group to lunch after class – Portofino, the great Italian place I went to last week with a few others – and Anna and I finished souvenir shopping! Relief. About half of our group hung out in the lobby literally all afternoon. It was just one of those days. My lunch lasted me until way past dinnertime, so for dessert we went to the waffle place Anna and I have raved about for two weeks! Waffle + chocolate + ice cream + bananas + whipped cream = 0 calories of goodness. (Nothing we eat here has calories, didn’t I tell you that?)
Wednesday (the day I’m finishing my blog post… that I probably won’t post until Thursday):
-Last day of class (besides presentations/final exam) = praise be.
-Finished my presentation (pretty proud of it. If you ever want to learn the Canadian national anthem, I’m your girl.)
-It was cold today. Wish it had been like this for the past two weeks, but I’ll take it.
-Tonight, we went and saw a movie at the French movie theater. “Le Sens d’Humor” or something like that. “The Meaning of Humor.” The only meaning I got out of the movie was that I like English movies better. I did not understand a darn thing.
To the handful of you who have read all of my blog posts… Thank you. I come home on Sunday, so it looks like I’m going to be winding down the blog! Look for another post or two about my last few days and maybe a recap when I get home/to Starkville.
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