where you invest your love, you invest your life...

old quebec city wasn't exactly like i expected. i'm not going to sugarcoat it and say that 'omg, it was so fantastical and we loved every minute of it and we didn't want to leave' because that's just not true. while it was definitely beautiful to look at, a lot of things were up for sale/not open, and i found that it was mostly restaurants, and not really little shops like i thought there would be. so that's why we extended our trip to 2 nights and after checking out at 11am, we went to old montreal. it's on the way home anyways (3 hours away from old quebec), so it made sense.

saturday morning, our alarms were set for 3:20 am and we were out of the house by 4am. we stopped for coffee (to go) at a cafe that's open 24/7 365 days a year. then, we were on our way! the rental car we ended up getting was a black mitsubishi rvr, and it was a pretty nice little drive. we stopped in montreal around 10am for some breakfast and then got into old quebec around 1:30pm.

seeing it for the first time.

 our room at hotel sainte-anne.

out the window.

 the cards.

 now that's what i called a christmas store.

the fairmont.

and that right there is the first part of our anniversary weekend.