Driving to Montreal

Since we had to drive from Quebec City to Montreal, we decided to take a couple of side trips. Here are some pictures to one of the most fun days of the whole trip:

Right outside of Quebec City were these waterfalls called Montmorency Falls. They claim to be larger than Niagra Falls. I have never seen those, but these were pretty impressive.
We rode a gondola up to the top of the falls. Here is the amazing view with the river behind us. It looked like it was completely frozen.
Here is my mom and dad with the falls in the background. The scene was so picturesque.
Here is Tyler and I a little bit closer to the falls. Our next stop was the bridge over the falls which you can see in the background of this picture.
Here is Travis at the entrance of the bridge. I was a little nervous. We were so high and I was just hoping that the bridge was nice and steady.

Here is a view of the falls from right above it. It was so cool!

I just thought this was a cool shot. Tyler is being very pensive. :)

Here is our family shot, sans husbands. We had such a good time being all together as a family.

We rode back down the gondola and my mom and I took one last scenic picture with the falls in the background.

We drove over to this little island where there was a small chocolate shop which sold the best homemade chocolate in the area. It was pretty good, but I have definitely had better.

Now for one of the highlights of the trip. We found this brochure for this place called Valcartier Valcances or something. It was one the most unbelievably fun places that I have ever visited. Imagine a ski resort but with inner tubes. There were all these different runs and they all had a level of difficulty, the highest being double black diamonds. It was so much fun! The best part was that I never felt unsteady on the tubes when we were going down. I was so nervous because I thought we were going to catch air or something and crash and kill ourselves! It was also fun because you could all hook together and go down the hills together. We went at night so we didn't get a lot of pictures but here are a few:

Here we are getting ready to go down our first hill. We were a bit nervous because we honestly had no idea what to expect.

Here is Travis and I on our tubes after coming down the hill. Luckily we brought our ski clothes so we could stay dry!

They also had these huge rafts that we could all down together. This one is called the Tornado which when it would hit the side of the run would spin round and round really fast. Here is everyone getting ready for take off.

The expression on Travis' face on the Tornado exactly fits how we were all feeling, terror and excitement!

Here are the boys after our last run. As you can tell, we all had such a great time!

Well, our driving trip to Montreal was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. We got to see so many amazing things and we definitely looking forward to the last leg of our trip.