No more pics :(

Rest Stop Just East of Montreal.  Last Stop for Camera :(

As we're leaving Quebec City after the delicious made to order breakfast from the hotel, we realized that the reason I didn't have my camera last night was because we most likely left it at the rest stop the day before.  I was devastated.  Fortunately, I had downloaded all of the photos before our lunch break.  Still, now I would be left with Kim's little pocket camera.  You'll notice a lack of pictures now.  I was trying to take a picture of a groups of ducks along the Miramichi river, and almost had to sit on them to get a close up picture. 

While Kim liked Quebec City, he was happy to be heading east to New Brunswick.  Apparently the lack of length in their merge lanes was getting to him.  I called 511 to see about my camera, but nothing had been found. :(

We stopped in Edmonston, New Brunswick for lunch at Mcdonalds.  I have been proud at our lack of stopping at fast food joints on this trip,  However, still bummed about my camera, I didn't feel like a picnic.

This had to be the busiest Mcdonalds I'd ever seen.  Who would have guessed??  Kim couldn't resist trying the local McLobster!  It arrived and looked nothing like the picture, but Kim did acquiesce that it was actual lobster.  I giggled at the thought of Mcdonald's serving lobster.  Such fine diners we are!

We then turned onto highway 108E for 200 kms.  We should have known better when the GPS said it would take 3 hours to arrive to Miramichi.  The road was beyond terrible.  Thank goodness Kim slept for half the way, or I would have gone bonkers listening to him fret about the condition of our van after driving such a potholed, crumbling road.  I also said a prayer of thanks that we weren't in the Mustang!

Miramichi, which had been my choice to come, was okay, but certainly not worth the two hour middle of nowhere ride.  The river was grand, and our  room at the hotel was right along side it....but Miramichi itself still did not impress.

As I sit typing here in the morning before departure, I tell myself that today is a new day.  We're leaving earlier and our early drives have been better.  We start the Cabot Trail today.  Kim has wanted to do this drive. (although to be fair he envisioned himself in his Mustang convertible, not a minivan filled with wife and kids)  Ingonish, please don't disappoint!!