Day 21 Costco and Domaine de Maizerets

Lachie had a restless night and got up at 5 ready to start the day! Unfortunately that meant we were up to start the day. I read my book on the history of Quebec until 6, then I went out to the lounge. Tim worked from home today, so after breakfast we left him working and drove to Costco to get some supplies. Lachie was asleep in the car within five minutes and it is only fifteen minutes away! We drove over the St Charles River, which is tiny compared to the magnificent St. Lawrence and past the huge ice hockey stadium. We woke up Lachie to go shopping.

Statues to commemorate Irish immigrants

The usual structure in Costco, but the cost of Canadian beef was really surprising. Cheap cuts were still $40.99 per kg. The more expensive down to $36.99, but in larger quantities. I loved seeing duck on display. It bought back memories of France. GF and LF food available. What I was cranky about was a display of “Aussie Bites” which were made in California! We bought our items and headed back home.

After lunch Lachie finally succumbed to sleep on the couch after many unsuccessful tries. We woke him up at 3:30 and headed back down to a lovely park called “Domaine de Maizeretes”. The oldest of the buildings is Chateau Ango des Maizerets .Once a 16^th century seminary built by the French stood here and was subsequently rebuilt twice after being destroyed by fire. Once during one of the invasions of Quebec City. Many of the large trees were planted in 1853 and it now offers 11 kms of walking trails. I would love to see the gardens in spring, or autumn with its huge deciduous tree, crab apple trees, lilacs and huge beds of peony roses.

Lachie had a wonderful time riding his bike along the paths, but you had to be careful not to go off the paths into the stinging nettles. It was lovely to see so many people using the park for walking, riding or playing petanque. We climbed to the top of the observatory tower and it was surprising how far you could see. We even went into the maze, but someone had cut a track right to the centre.

one of the "locals"

We returned home and Tim went to get his bike fixed while we got dinner and Lachie got crankier and crankier. An early bath for him and then an early night to bed. I typed, Tim checked out his phone and Sarah went to the gym downstairs. It took ages to try to research the history of the buildings in the gardens because so little was written about its history and the translations were poor.

in the maze centre