Daaquam on Friday

Incredibly we have wifi here at the lodge so I will be able to talk to you again tomorrow.

Left Bellerives at 10am stopped and got a few groceries in Charette then traveled through Quebec city to cross the St. Lawrence - got a bit lost for a minute when I couldn't read the gps as fast as I needed to read the signs and we got off on the wrong exit= I give her credit; Dorothy/gps got us right back on the right track!  We took a slightly different route (recommended by Dorothy....) because we thought we remembered from 5 years ago that the shortest route was extremely hilly (we are in the northern part of the Appalachian mountain) so we thought the gps might have a better route..........not!!!  It was just as hilly if not more and so many frost heaves!!!  every time I would bounce with the bump the seat belt would cut me in the shoulder!  It was fun to see a different part of Quebec, but the road was not better.  So we got here about 4 hours 15 minutes when we thought it should be 3.5 hours - went very slow - like 20mph over the frost heaves - and drove right to the place where we had raced before.  Bellerives left at 11:30 so we thought to see them about an hour after we got here - come 4:15 they finally arrived and the second dog truck break a automatic transmission line and had to find a place to have parts and fluid to fix it!

They are parked right next to us and on the other side is a couple from France who now live in Quebec that we remembered from the last time we raced here.

Bellerives invited us to dinner in the lodge so I had the salmon and carrot soup (I have to try making this - it was excellent!!!)  and Randy had steak- lots of people that we knew from 5 years ago stopped by the table and it was like "old home week"!!!!

Back to the trailer at 9:30 only to find out the generator had quit and so it was 25 degrees in the house!  Randy got it fired up again after we dropped dogs and it's already a balmy 44 in here!!!