Day 30 Another busy day

Only one minor interruption to my sleep and it didn’t involve changing beds. Lachie woke at 6:15. Following the usual breakfast routine, we dropped Lachie at Day Care, Tim at work and drove to the Port Market. A huge difference down there from my last visit. All the boats were out of the water in preparation of the water freezing.

The market was quite different to the autumn season. Still some fresh products, but now most of the stalls were selling “gift” items: lots of products in jars and bottles, cranberry season so the cranberry and blueberry stalls were selling every variation of their products, bottles of all kinds of vinegars, wines, jelly and now stalls of knitted alpaca goods (gorgeous, but SO expensive). I bought a few Christmas decorations and a wreath for Sarah and Tim’s door.

Because we only had a short time to fill in, Sarah drove the long way round to the appointment with the nurse for Amelia. This time no leaves and tress wrapped in white sheeting that looked like duct tape. Past the demonstrators. (Quebec has a constant assortment of them) When we arrived I had a few snoozes in the rocking chair in the feeding room for infants while Sarah and Amelia had their appointment. Very comfy. Amelia had put on 400 gms in a week, grown 2 cms longer and 2 cms wider in her head! Obviously doing well. We crossed the road to the Patisserie- bread for me and a muffin. They forgot to grease the paper and I had to wrench it off the edges and even worse it was flavoured of frangipane. It might be a favourite of French people, but not mine.

We came home for lunch. Sarah fed Amelia, then went down to get a parcel at the post office and to pick up some decorations for the tree. She collected the apartment’s Christmas tree from the storage locker. Smaller than anticipated, but it will at least mean that this apartment is in keeping with the Christmas spirit. While she was gone, I packed my bags for tomorrow. Leaving behind my old backpack. I bought a new one yesterday, which has a specific water bottle holder and a place for my laptop. The old one was unfortunately looking slightly worse for wear after getting paint on it during the house painting and had done many overseas trips.

We collected Lachie, then Tim and on the way home went via the Old Town, so I could take photos of some of the fantastic decorations. Every day they put up more and more. My wonderful hosts drove me around and I got out as quickly as possible, climbing over Lachie, and snapped as fast as possible. It is so easy to take photos of night lights at 5:00 pm in pitch black conditions.

Home to prepare dinner. After dinner Sarah put up the Christmas tree and after the baths and feeding, we set up the tree and Lachie helped to instruct us in the placement of the decorations. Lots of photos. Sarah sat down to write Christmas cards for me to take home while I downloaded photos and typed up my diary, while we had “Elf “ playing in the background.

Amelia dreaming of a white Christmas.