Sugar Shack

On Thursday we went to visit a famous Catholic church. French Canada is still Catholic and their history is intertwined with their faith…their Catholicism. The famous church we visited is called St. Ann De Beaupre. This church is remarkable because of the amount of people, even in recent times who have been healed. The walls of the church have crutches displayed. People would abandon the crutches they no longer needed, once they had been healed.

After the church visit, we went to see the Chutes Montmorency, which are specatcualr waterfalls, 30 meters higher than Niagra Falls. This has to be one of the seven wonders of North America! Wow! You can understand why Quebec sells hydro power to the United States!

Last, we visited a “sugar shack” where we dance the traditional dances we had learned two nights before. We ate a typical Quebecoise meal….meat pie, beets, potatoes, sausages, ham, split pea soup, maple beans, and for dessert….crepes with fresh maple syrup! Then we watched a demonstration of a man teaching us how to take maple syrup from the tree. He explained this in French, and spoke very rapidly, but still we learned. Then we sampled another treat….maple syrup poured over ice, and then rolled quickly on a popsicle stick. Very good! This was on the Ile d’Orleans….an island 35 kilometers long that sits in the Saint Lawrence seaway. You can imagine the incredible views, spectacular.

We have happy PALCS students!! We will be home on Sunday!! We miss you all!!