Christmas in Canada!

This Christmas, my parents took the whole family for a vacation to Canada! It was an amazing trip and we had such a great time. We left on Christmas Day, spent three days in Quebec City and then spent our last four days in Montreal before coming home on New Year's Day. We took about a million pictures between all of us, so I am going to spare you and only post those that I think are important. So, here we go!

These next bunch of pictures are from Quebec City which was very similar to a small city in France. Hardly anyone spoke any English and we all agreed that we the plane had actually taken us across the Atlantic Ocean and dropped us off in France. It was so great!

Here is proof that it was freezing!! We spent the entire trip bundled up. There was a lot of snow and it was like a winter wonderland. :)
Quebec City was a small, quaint city. Here is a picture of a ice skating rink right in the middle of the city. It was so much fun!
This is my brother Tyler, my sister's Emily and Amy, and I posing for a cute picture. This was the first family vacation that we have all been together at in a long time! It was so much fun to be all together.
Here is Travis and I on one of many cool tiny streets in Quebec.
We went to this hotel called Hotel Frontenac which is the most photographed hotel in the world. Right outside of it was this huge toboggan ride. Here is Travis and I on our toboggan getting ready for this ride. I was actually quite nervous.
This is the top of the hill. It looked a lot scarier in person.

The boys had a big race and Taylor and Nate were the big winners. But then I pulled out the proof that Taylor cheated!! I declared Tyler and Travis winners by default!

The must do for when you visit Quebec City is to walk this great little street called le Petit Champlain. It has all these amazing little shops and they are making maple candies outside on tables of snow (hot maple that they pour on ice and wrap around a stick, i didn't really like it but my sister's loved it). We had so much fun walking around and then we had an amazing dinner at one of the local resturants.

To get down to the Petit Champlain, we had to take a funicular. The tracks can be seen in the background of this good looking picture of Travis.

Since it was around Christmas, they had lots of market that sold all sorts of different things. We went to a huge inside market that had so many people selling some cool crafts. Here is a picture of one of the booths.

My mom, sisters and I found a new boyfriend! Unfortunately we couldn't figure out who was lucky enough to take him home so we had to leave him there. :)

We took this huge boat across the river and we actually were breaking through ice as we traveled. It was so amazing. I have never done anything like it!

Going across the river was a perfect picture taking moment!

Here is a picture of that Hotel that I talked about above from across the river. It is a pretty bad picture but you can see how huge it is. It is definitely the focal point of the whole city.

Well, Quebec City was amazing. We had so much fun walking around and seeing all the sights. There are many more pictures to come!