Day 6: Moncton,NB: amazing Magnetic Hill and huge Moncton zoo - Riviere du loup,QC

We went to check out the Magnetic hill in Moncton this morning. This place is so amazing. We put the car in neutral going forward, then the car was automatically moving up. We were so excited; we tried again going backward. Hubby said that the backward trial was more interesting ;)

After the Magnetic hill, we went to the Moncton zoo which is one of the top 10 largest zoo in Canada. This zoo is huge and we saw a lot of animals that we didn't see in Winnipeg zoo. The only two animals that we didn't see in Moncton are red-head birds and Polar bear. But hubby reminded me that that Polar bear has died for a year as he was too old. Poor that bear !!!
At Moncton zoo, we were also impressive by the way they named the streets walking around the zoo.

We also came by Moncton shopping mall in order to try to find some more souvenirs at the last minutes. But we couldn't find any thing specially representing for Moncton. And we left Moncton to Riviere du loup, QC at very late afternoon (because we had to wait for a hour for lunch in a Vietnamese restaurant in downtown, and also took another half an hour just for my coffee at the busiest Timothy coffee shop :(

On the way back to Riviere du loup, we also stopped by Hartland, New Brunswick to check out the longest covered bridge in the world.

We couldn't bid the hotel on pricelines.com for hotel/motel at Riviere du loup because there wasn't any 3 stars hotel listed on the website. We didn't want to bid any 2 stars or 1 star hotel/motel as we had experienced from the horrible motel at Fredericton,NB on day 2 of the trip. Hence, we decided to drive to Riviere du loup and then drive around the city to find the hotel. But as I mentioned above, we left Moncton so late and also came by the covered bridge, we were worry that by the time we were at Riviere du loup, all the hotels closed already.
While hubby was driving, I tried to call many places based on the tourist guide and Google listing to compare the price. Finally, I reserved one room in a 3 stars motel with the reasonable price ($89/night without breakfast).

This was a small sized motel (only 16 rooms), but the room was clean and well-equipped (had a small fridge, Internet wireless and AC). Honestly, I had to say that we were so lucky to be able to book this motel at the last minute :)