If you enlarge the picture, you can see the boat up overhead.
After that we visited the museum which was once the chateau Ramezay. Ramezay was the first governor of Quebec and bought the land and built this house when he was appointed. It once had land all the way down to the water (about three or four blocks away) but is now nestled on a city street across from the government building. I didn't take many pictures. This picture is of a kitchen. The interesting thing is the big round thing on the right side of the hearth. 
It's a device like a hamster wheel that you could put a dog in, and the dog walking inside the wheel would turn the rotisserie to cook the meat. Since I've never seen one before, I would assume they weren't very effective,
By the time we did these things we just went and had a sandwich and some vegetables in the park -- to avoid getting frites again -- then decided we would like to go hear the street musicians at the 18th century fair again. This was a good choice, because they had a really good hurdy gurdy player as well as a nice ensemble of Von, recorder, harp and mandolin. The fiddle player also played gamba and had a dancing masters little fiddle.
Before we went back to meet our Road Scholar group we walked up to the Notre Dame cathedral (not the same as the Notre Dame de Secours) and looked at the outside of the church. This wall was on the way up there. 
Our new tour guide seems nice, and we met most of the people in our tour tonight. Looking forward to this new part of the trip. Tomorrow we get a history lesson, a walking tour of the old town, and free time in the afternoon when we may go to the botanical gardens.
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