On Friday night after going to the gym, I headed over to Vero’s place where we waited for her sister Anne-Marie to show up. She was coming down for a week of fun and we were excited for the festivities.
She arrived, we had some excellent stew made by the lovely Vero and then we hung out on the balcony for the rest of the night. Judging that a storm front was coming our way for the entire weekend, they decided to reschedule their skydiving plans from the Saturday until Wednesday. It was a smart move on their part considering the monsoon that hit us.
We decided to head out into deep Quebec to visit their grandmother and family. We hit the road around 10:30AM and even though we were running a little late, nothing could stop what would be a great impromptu road trip.
In Alfred we stopped in a yard sale and I scored an entire box of comic books for $15. I was perusing the box and picking out a few Wolverine comics that caught my eye and after ten minutes this guy comes up and says “Tu veux un ‘deal’?” I asked him how much and he said $15 for the whole box. Steal of a deal! There are quite a bit of older Uncle Scrooge, Flintstones and Yogi Bear type comic books that I’m not OVERLY interested in reading but you never know if someone will be. I did get a good pile of Wolverine comics and a few Spider-Man comics as well.
We then kept trucking along, hitting some traffic in Montreal and stopped into A&W for a taste of poutine (not recommended). The trip went by fast as we played Highway Hypotheticals for most of the trip and around Quebec City we got NAILED with monsoon rain for a good half hour. It was insane.
We took a wrong turn off the highway but it was a blessing in disguise as we stumbled upon a life size replica of Johnny 5! What a coincidence that we had been talking about it the week before! Vero jumped out of the car and got a picture with the only robot she will associate herself with.
After readjusting our navigation, we rolled into St-Jacques de Leeds to find her grandmother in good spirits. I ended up taking a nap before Vero’s cousin Valerie showed up with her baby Gabriel. We then had supper along with Valerie’s boyfriend Stephane who is always a good time. After a few drinks and watching some wedding videos we let their Grandmother sleep and we headed over to Valerie and Stephane’s place for a night cap and watched their great video from Cuba. It was quite the miserable night outside due to the weather so I was fine with hanging out inside for most of the night.
The next morning we awoke to find that their grandmother was still asleep even though she had told everyone breakfast would be on at 9AM! I perused my comic book finds and then Vero and I took a drive around the country which turned out to be a little longer than we had planned but we didn’t have a map with us and got misdirected. I really love this area of Quebec as there are rolling hills and forests all around for miles. It’s quite nice.
We arrived home and we started helping out with breakfast when Vero’s aunt, uncle and cousin showed up for breakfast. It was a good feed and we chatted for awhile and then around 1PM we figured we better hit the road soon enough as it’s a five hour drive back to Ottawa. Along the way, we stopped into Alfred to get a poutine and Vero ended up buying this amazing leather biker jacket at a yard sale!
It was a fast impromptu road trip but it was nice to go see her family again.