Brain Freeze

In Quebec City for business. Spent the whole day in committee meetings today (not so fun) but managed to get out in the early evening to check out Vieux-Quebec seeing as it's just outside the hotel door (good fun!)

I started strolling down rue Saint-Louis and had to turn up my collar and shove my hands into my coat pockets. Brrrr.... It was a bone chilling -5. I couldn't figure out why it felt so bloody cold here. It was a lovely 6 or 7 degrees when I left Toronto this morning...

A few paces later, it hit me. (And then I actually hit myself on the forehead for my stupidity.) It's colder here because Quebec City is considerably much further north than Toronto. Clearly sitting in those committee meetings all day had short circuited my brain somehow...

So it's a good thing tomorrow is a "free day" - no meetings and no stale conference rooms. Need to rejuvenate the old noggin'! I've made a list:

- consume crepes (Breakfast perhaps? I could get that one out of the way first thing!)
- check out the 'Picasso at the Chateau d’Antibes' exhibit at the Musee National des Beaux Arts
- travel down the Casse Cou stairs to Quartier Petit Champlain
- be really touristy and ride the funiculaire
- find some good Quebec artisanal cheese for sampling (In the name of cheesemonger research.)
- perhaps pop by the Musee de la Civilisation (Worried I might spend too much time there...)
- oh, and shop