Swings, Stars, Snow

One of my most favourite things to do here in Quebec is to go on random adventures. I live in the middle of nowhere, yet the number of tiny towns and beautiful discoveries that surround us are innumerable. Generally I pull out of our driveway and go a certain direction. Every fork in the road, we decide what way to go. In a way, it's like getting intentionally lost, but we always find our way back home. The goal is to find new fun towns, to discover fun spots and to stop and take pictures along the way.  So the other evening, when Jamie asked if I wanted to hang out, I decided it was time for an adventure.

Since Jamie love playgrounds, we decided to stop at one nearby. We had a heat wave last week where it was 25 degrees for about 5 days. It was glorious. And most of the snow melted. Except for the piles of dirty snow. Unfortunately you have to go through a pile of dirty snow to get to the playground and my entire leg may have fallen in a couple times. Thankfully I escaped and went to play.

This playground has the best rope/web thing. Not sure what to call it and I feel like it would be dangerous for actual children, since I even have a hard time stepping to the next level of rope. But climb we did and what fun was had.

The little town we were in has some fun old buildings as well as some beautiful churches, so it's a lovely view from the top as well.

If you look closely in the photo below, you will see Jamie on the swings, although from the blur you wouldn't be able to tell it was her.

Quebec used to be really Catholic. Then during the 70's, the Quiet Revolution took place and the church fell apart from within and the pendulum swung the other way to secularism. So now only .05% of the population is evangelical Christian, and although many people would still say they are Catholic, church attendance has severely declined. But as a result, there are a lot of beautiful churches in every single town. Usually each town has a church and if you look for the steeple in the skyline you will find it.  So we decided to stop at churches and take some photos.

So here are some pictures of churches to enjoy.

We spotted a Tim Horton's and although I'm not usually a fan, it is roll up the rim time right now, so we decided to get hot beverages for the next leg of our journey. In a span of three days, we won four coffees in a row, all from the previous free coffee.. it was quite exciting.

We took our warm drinks and drove down some random road until we came across Lac Noel (Christmas Lake). We found a dead end road where it was pitch black and opened the sun roof and enjoyed stargazing from the comfort of our seats, and later from the comfort of the roof. I especially love all the shooting stars!

After our adventures in Lac Noel, we decided to follow the signs to a town called "Mille Iles" (thousand Islands) and after driving through some hilly country, through the misty fog we came across the cutest little church. Across the road there was another church. I really want to go back in the day to take some pictures.. and then it won't seem so creepy being on the top of some hill surrounded by fog with random vehicles with people in them in the parking lot...

We found a few other towns that we would love to go to sometime during the day, and found some more lovely churches as well.

Later when we mapped out our journey, we went in a giant circle, around where we live. But now we know a little bit more about the area we live in and a few of the fun places to go.

Thought I would take you along on one of our random adventures. Hope you enjoyed the trip!