Some of the sites around Quebec City over the last day or two – Winter Carnival 2008

This is the view from our hotel room – looking below

Another view below the hotel here on the St Lawrence Seaway

Old town area – Quebec City

Some very deep snow in the downtown area!!!!

Joey in front of one of the old churches in the downtown area of Quebec City

Ever hear of HUMAN FOOSBALL????  WELL NOW YOU HAVE!!!!  These kids were having a blast at
the Winter Carnival.

Check out the LARGE ice hanging from the roof.  Best to get out of the way of those icicles.

Joey and Beau in front of the Ice Castle – Quebec City Winter Carnival

BEWARE OF FALLING ICE SIGN 🙂

Joey in front of the armory museum.  HUGE icicles.

Downtown Quebec City – Old Town

Winter Carnival

This is the St Lawrence Seaway in front of our hotel 🙂  Lot of ice floating down the river.  Occasionally the ice
flows back up the river – depends on the tides. 

Winter Carnival 2008

  We walked around the "old town" part of the city last night.  Lot of nice shops and restaurants.  Wintery scene with a lot of snow on the ground and everything decorated for winter carnival.  The old town part of Quebec City is a beautiful area.  I can only imagine what it is like in the summer.  🙂  I am sure it would be the hot spot to visit.

Old town – yesterday evening.  Nice shopping area – nice area just to walk around.  We found an art store
that had some nice snow paintings.  I got two for our new house.  I think we will have a snow theme
going!

Joey next to a large Native American Ice Sculpture,  There are a lot of nice ice carvings around the city.

A Wintery Day In Quebec City, Quebec

  We had a great time up at the Ice Hotel cross country skiing.  This was my second time and Joey’s first time.  I think he struggled  a bit at first but then he did great.  I think he fell more times than I did but I think I feel in deeper snow.  lol  I was pretty much covered in snow by the time it was over.  The temperature was around 25 degrees.  No wind.  Peaceful area…lot of beautiful snow covered trees.  Perfect cross county ski weather.

Joey in the back…David up front

That would be me

Joey making his way up the hill…

  This is just incredible.  Almost unheard of.  A single tornado on the ground for over 120 miles. 
This was one of the killer tornadoes from earlier in the week.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1255 PM CST SAT FEB 9 2008

…AERIAL SURVEY COMPLETED FOR PRIMARY TORNADO TRACK OVER NORTH
ARKANSAS…

AN AERIAL SURVEY WAS COMPLETED LATE THIS MORNING FOR THE TORNADIC
STORM THAT TRACKED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS ON
TUESDAY. THE AREAL SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED THAT THE PATH OF THE
TORNADO WAS CONTINUOUS FROM YELL COUNTY… NORTHEASTWARD INTO SHARP
COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS EARLIER RATED AN EF4. BASED ON PRELIMINARY
INFORMATION…THE LENGTH OF THE TORNADO TRACK WILL BE AT LEAST 120
MILES LONG.

AN NWS GROUND SURVEY TEAM HAS ALSO FOUND THE STARTING POINT OF THIS
TORNADO TO BE 5.6 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CENTERVILLE…IN YELL
COUNTY. AN ENDING POINT…ALONG WITH A MORE DETAILED PATH LENGTH…
WILL BE DETERMINED ONCE THE TEAMS RETURN LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

THE AERIAL SURVEY TEAM CONSISTED OF JOHN LEWIS…SENIOR FORECASTER
AND BRIAN SMITH…FORECASTER. THE GROUND SURVEY TEAM IS JOHN
ROBINSON…WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST…AND RENEE
FAIR…METEOROLOGIST IN CHARGE. THEY ARE ALL FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK. THE WEATHER SERVICE WOULD ALSO LIKE
TO THANK THE CIVIL AIR PATROL FOR PROVIDING THE PERSONNEL AND
AIRCRAFT THAT WERE USED TO CONDUCT THE AERIAL SURVEY.