Montreal Trip - Day 9

We checked out of the Holiday Inn Select, Quebec Centre-Ville at 1010 and headed towards Montreal.  To get there, we used a route on the north side of the Saint Lawrence River. When we were nearly half way, we started to see the huge and beautiful shrine of Saint Anne. We had to take a look! It seems to be relatively new and is amazing inside - awe inspiring. This Saint Anne is apparently the Patron Saint of Canada. There was a "Stations of the Cross" with life-size people on a very steep hill. After we had seen this beautiful place, we drove across to the Isle d'Orleans and toured the farmlands and open air produce markets. It was very small and there were few people. At the end of the day, we made it to Montreal - just in time for a huge rain storm! We had a reservation at the Four Points by Sheraton on Rue Sherbrooke but, when we arrived (1900), it was very hard to get a place to park.  Nicky and the kids got kind of scared that we wouldn't be able to get out of the car. I was double parked for a bit but eventually parallel parked my way into the "quiet" area of the check-in zone. Luckily, the hotel had some great service (done with check-in by 1920) and we soon forgot about needing a car again... Tomorrow, I am going to explore the old town and check out the Cemetery "Cote des Neiges" for Coogan ancestors...