Day 17 Newark to Quebec.

Woke early to answer emails and pack before breakfast. After breakfast I stripped the bed and took my luggage downstairs. Charlie took some photos of me around their house

and then Christa drove me to the airport. We had a good run and I was at the airport a little after 11, bag check in, through security and into the gate area. Waited at gate 21 my original gate for an hour while I typed up yesterday’s diary and watched a pigeon walk around the floor- no sure how it got through security?

My original flight was for 1:30. At 1:00 they changed the gate and then the departure time to 2:15 at exactly the same time I ran out of credit on my phone and there was no WiFi. I fail to believe that small airports like Lincoln and Cedar Falls have free WiFi, but Chicago and Newark do not. Well Chicago did, but you couldn’t connect. So I sent a text to Sarah not knowing if she is still using her phone or not and had no other means of contacting her.

So more typing and then more issues. When I went to read my book on my computer I discovered with 120 pages left to read, that it had run out of time and I will have to get it from the E-library again. I went over to Hudsons. On the way I noticed a huge queue for the women’s toilets. Continued on and bought a book and the queue had gone so I stopped there on the way. Sat down and discovered that I had read it and took it back and exchanged it for another book. Back to discover they were boarding.

Straight on board along with the other 17 passengers! Seat 3A for me. We taxied out and straight off up in the air.Took lots of photos and read on the “long“ trip at just over an hour. I was so surprised to see the number of rivers and lakes on the way.

New Jersey

Coming into Quebec

Landed and quickly taxied to the terminal.

Into the terminal at 4 pm. and laughed out loud. Four customs/ immigration officers to serve us! I had problems with my officer. She spoke English and needed to know what I was leaving behind in Canada. (Troy’s quilt and some biscuits ) She had trouble understanding the word “Quilt” and “bed” which apparently sounded like bear? Finally out of that section into the baggage section. The bags took about 15 minutes to come out of the chute. Through to the customs man who was just standing there at the end of the room to collected the form and out the exit.

No Sarah to be seen and I had no way of contacting her. I walked up and down for a while. Then sat to wait and tried my computer which picked up the WiFi at the airport. Just as I was writing to her, she came through the door with Lachie.

She had been caught up in traffic. We drove to pick up Tim at work. There were lines of cars on every road. The roads as described by Sarah previously were not in excellent conditions in some places.

It was interesting to see the difference of architecture between here and Newark/ Iowa. Very French influence evident. We drove the long way home to their wonderful apartment, which had once been a monastery. All rebuilt and very well appointed. Lovely place and so close to the restaurant area.

I gave Lachie his quilt and Sarah her boxes of Shapes biscuits then we walked down to the restaurants and had dinner. I had a lovely roast chicken, beans and mashed potato, Sarah had ribs, Tim had a kind of pizza. Lachie had a kid’s meal. We walked back through the park to see the lovely reflections across the river.

Back at the unit at 8:30. I sat down to download but it wouldn’t go through. I needed to transfer photos so while that was happening I finished typing up today’s diary.