2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Daylight Shot of School Building

Could not resist a few parting shots of the school building and environs as we boarded for our last night of the cruise, including this daylight photo taken with the Bigger Cahoona.

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, House Boats

Saw these houseboats on our way back to the ship after the tour.  Seems like a neat way to live, but not cheap...these guys cost several hundred thousands of dollars apiece.  When I taught at Clear Creek High School back in the day, one of my fellow teachers and his also-teacher wife lived in a boat nearby, which I thought very intriguing.

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Falling Ice Sign

Don't see many of these around Houston...

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Closer Look of Boardwalk Hotel

A closer look at one end of the hotel...

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Boardwalk Hotel

Toward the end of our tour we walked down a long boardwalk, where I finally got the view I'd been wanting of this hotel.  What an incredible structure, and if you fork over enough cash it's possible to spend the night inside!  A little above our station in life, but it's pretty to look at.

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Black Statues on State House

Getting closer allows a better view of the black statues in each alcove.  Looks like the one below might make a good bookmark:

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, State House with Fountain

Now this one is a government building.  Normally it would be open, but there'd been an attack in the not-too-distant past, so it was heavily guarded and closed to tourists.  Still, got some good exterior shots of this awesome state house.  Wider view below:

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, City Street with Apartments

A pretty neat street...all those colors, then a steeple at the end.

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Open Fountain

 

2025 NE Cruise - Québec City, Touring PE Class in Session

Our guide told us he was going to show us something interesting, but we'd have to be quiet when we got there; said he's been kicked out of the place more than once.

After seeing this it was no wonder.  He nervously scoped out the area, then we stepped inside this entryway that opened into a courtyard.  Another guide in period costume had a group already in progress, but the kids appeared oblivious to their presence.  Still I backed off some lest the clack of the Bigger Cahoona's mirror draw unwanted attention.  Evidently this place has great historical value, but don't remember what it was...