Day 7: Last stop of the honeymoon trip: Montreal,QC: nice meeting with close-friends

As hubby decided to drive all the way from Rivere du lop to Ottawa, we left the motel early.

We stopped by one of the little town near Quebec (I forgot the name of the town) to have lunch. The restaurant is named Valentine, what a beautiful name !!! Having lunch in this restaurant, we've met the kind and hard-working owner, and we also discovered how the hand-made french fries were made. She peeled off the potatoes' skin and put them into a "hand-metal presser" (sorry, I don't know what that machine is called). Hubby enjoyed the home-made French fries a lot :)

After lunch, we decided to visit one of our close-friend family who currently moved to Montreal to settle down. After a lot of out-going and in-coming calls, we did meet that family at their place. I were so happy to meet them (although they did come down to Ottawa to visit us in June). And we did have a good dinner together in China town in Montreal. The husband and his wife tried to convince us to stay one night in their place, but hubby wanted to go home (he was saying that he had missed the home a lot already, yeah "home sweet home")

By the time we got home, it was another day already (12:15AM). Hubby scared my sister by going to the back door and knocking many times. Poor my sister, she was so scared and run to close all the windows' curtain and about to call us on her cell phone. ;)

Generally, we did have a very good honeymoon. And I had to say thank to my hubby for the very loooooong drive (Ottawa-Halifax-Ottawa + stopping at many places on the way = 3200 kilometers). Love you much Hubby.

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 :)