Back in Quebec by Ann Wood
Leila and her family back to Quebec and found a place where to park their RV. They arrive early in the morning on Monday, have breakfast, and go to bed to have a rest after the long journey. When they get up, it was after two in the afternoon and outside it is raining. They have lunch and watching a movie on Netflix. Alex made some sandwiches and salad for their lunch. After the video finished, Michelle and Margaret start cooking for dinner, and the rest of the family go out for a walk and get the weekly shopping done. They buy food, water, soft drinks, and cleaning products for the house, also some flowers and new books. They get a taxi to go back to the car park. When they get home, they put the shopping bags away and go out again for a walk in the nearest park. They get back home at seven o'clock and have dinner, after dinner, they play monopoly and kids go to bed tired after the long walk in the afternoon. When they left alone, they have made their plans for the next day. They want to go to visit museums and art galleries, also to take the kids to the playground for the rest of the day. They will have lunch and dinner out in the city and in the evening to take the kids to the circus. When they go to bed, it was very late at night. Leila checks on the kids before she goes to bed.The next morning after breakfast, they take the bus to the city center, visit a few museums and art galleries. For lunch, they go to a small French eatery place near the last gallery they visit early on. After they finish lunch, they go to the playground. Kids were so happy running around and playing. They meet a young couple with their kids also playing in the stadium. At six the go for dinner in Maggie and then to the circus. The circus finishes around ten o'clock at night they call for the taxi and go home. When they get back home, Michelle and Margaret help the kids with shower and put them to bed. After that, they all sit in the lounge and have a glass of wine and watching telly. They watch Easy A on Youtube when they go to bed; it was one o'clock in the morning.
The next day they go to visit the nearest town and will stay there for a few days. They start traveling Merge onto Pont Pierre-Laporte / Autoroute 73 S in Sainte-Foy from QC-136 O for 15min 12.8km. Then they go straight head south on Quai Saint-André / QC-136 O Street View for 10m, then turn left at the 1st cross street onto Quai Saint-André / QC-136 O for 450m. After that, they Use any lane to turn right onto Rue Dalhousie / QC-136 O 12.0km and Continue onto QC-136 O. On at the roundabout, take the right path to merge onto Pont Pierre-Laporte / Autoroute 73 S at the junction with Autoroute 20 / Montréal / Rivière-du-Loup for 400m.
Parts of this road may be closed at certain hours or days. Then follow Autoroute 73 S to Route du Président-Kennedy / QC-173 N / QC-218 E at Saint-Henri for 24min 34.2km. At the roundabout, take the Pont Pierre-Laporte / Autoroute 73 S and Continue onto Autoroute 73 S. for 2.5 km, and use the middle lane to stay on the Autoroute 73 S for 300m. Keep left to stay on Autoroute 73 S for 15.7km then take exit 115 for Québec 218 to Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon / Saint-Henri / Saint-Gilles / Saint-Bernard for 650m. Then turn left onto Rue du Pont / QC-218 E and Continue onto QC-218 E for 11.6 km. After that turn left onto QC-173 N / QC-218 E / QC-275 N (signs for Québec 173) for 400 m and continue straight onto Route du Président-Kennedy / QC-173 N / QC-218 E for 3.0 km. They arrive at Saint-Henry Quebec G0R 3E0, Canada around lunchtime.
They stop in the car park near the town center and shops, have lunch and take a break before they go out for a walk. For lunch, they have homemade chicken soup and macaroni cheese with salad, and for pudding, they have fruit salad. When they finish eating all get a short nap in their rooms. At four o'clock in the afternoon, they go for a walk and have dinner in Denise's place. They go to the park where the kids can play, and they get some outdoor gym exercises. When they arrive in Denise, it was almost eight o'clock they order their dinner roasted lamb with vegetables and mint spouse, salad and after that, they have Pavlova cake with ice cream. There was have live music, and they stay until late enjoying themselves. When they get back to their RV, it was one o'clock in the morning. Margaret got home with the kids after they finish supper and put them in bed. She was fast asleep on the sofa in the living room with telly still on. The three women get to bed and fall asleep. It was a hectic and beautiful day, and they all enjoy it. They stay a week in Saint Henry, and then they go back to Quebec using the same route.
When they back to Quebec, it was late afternoon on Monday. They stop on the front of Pamela's house, a woman they meet last time they were in Quebec, she invited them to stay with her for a few weeks. She lives in a big city home near Quebec city center. They park in her back yard, and she serves their lunch in the front garden it was a sunny day. After lunch, they have a shower and take a rest. In the evening they made a BBQ in the garden and play party games. Leila and Alex help Pamela with the BBQ when Margaret and Michelle play with the kids in the pool. They have late-night again, but they are enjoying the lovely weather and company. When they finally go to bed, it was after midnight. On the next day, they sleep until late. Pamela makes breakfast, and after breakfast, they all play a monopoly in the garden. In the afternoon, they swim in the pool and use the home gym. They have late lunch, just sandwiches, and fruits with cold drinks. In the evening they go for a walk in the near park. After they back to Pamela's home, it was around nine, and they have dinner and after that a movie night. At ten, they put the kids in bed and back to the cinema room for their movie night. At one o'clock in the morning, they go to bed.
They have a lovely time with Pamela and her family. She takes them to visit different places and for shopping. Leila and Alex want to go and look around to get land for the new care home they want to build in Quebec. They also will buy property in Nova Scotia. They want to grow their business outside of Vancouver. Pamela helps them with the research and show them properties nearby Quebec. They found a lovely place, just outside Quebec City, and go to buy it. They meet the lawyer to make the purchase and transfer the land in their name. They pay 500,000 Canadian dollars for the nation. Leila's sister, Mellanie, is helping them to buy property in Nova Scotia. She found ten bedrooms house with three living rooms, five bathrooms, a large dining room, and Kitchen. Outside with big gardens and swimming pool and tennis court. They pay for the house 2 000 000 Canadian dollars.
Mellanie will hire an interior design that will decorate the house and renovate all the rooms by adding a toilet with a wet room in each room. They will start to build the care home in Quebec in two weeks. They plan to have twenty beds on two floors as each floor has a dining room and a living room with a shared bathroom and each room with a toilet and wet room. On the ground floor, there will be a large kitchen, with a closet, a laundry room, a library, and a games room. Also, the cinema room and activities room, private gym and hair salon.
On the side of the care home, they will have a guest house with a dining room.
They were very busy the past few weeks when they back to Quebec. But happy whit the results of what they did. Soon they have to back to Vancouver and get ready for the winter and the twin's first birthday. They have such a lovely break in Quebec and the other place they visited. They are happy that they take this long vacation. Pamela will go with them to Vancouver when they go back there.
Short story by Ann Wood
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Written on 2020-06-24 at 23:45
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