Cadavers and Cadences

C'est lundi àprés-midi, and j'ai pas des devoirs. SO, I'm blogging about the rest of the weekend here en Québec. Dimanche, j'ai aller à vieux Québec for some adventures.

After walking around for a while taking in some more sights, we found un petit restaurant that sold soup and sandwiches. It was fantastique! We also found a farmer's market with unbelievably good gelato style ice cream. Wow.

THEN, (after eating, lol) we went to an exhibition called "Bodies: L'Exhibition". It was pretty amazing. It is designed to be educational and to teach people about the human body. They use bodies that have been donated to science, preserve them, and essentially skin them to different degrees. You can see all of the muscles, bones, arteries and veins, joints, nervous system, brains, etc. in various models throughout the exhibit. It was slightly eerie, but mostly really cool. It would be a great field trip for a biology class...or really, any class. Trés cool. They would not allow photos or electronics of any kind in the gallery, so I've pulled a few photos from the Expositions website for your viewing pleasure:



For more info, you can check out the website at http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/, and some videos about it here and another one here.

Àpres ça, I carried on alone à La Festival d'Été du Québec. I had mes devoirs (homework) with me, so I settled down on a hill, while enjoying the music of a Québec rock band, and The Proclaimers. Half way through the Proclaimers set, it became too dark for homework, so I packed up and headed down into the crowd. They finished up with a crowd pleasing "500 Miles", and I waited in eager anticipation for the main reason for coming to the festival that night.



The wait was well worth it. The Brian Setzer Orchestra.


They were awesome. They played through about an hour long set, complete with three encores. I was alone and felt like Peter in Swing Kids when he goes alone to the swing club and does that solo dance on the dance floor. Everyone was vibrating and dancing, clapping and singing along. It was awesome. I got home and to bed about 1 AM, which was slightly difficult to wake up this morning and finish my homework before my 8:30 class...but what can you do.

That's it for today. Back to homework. The advanced classes have group projects to do. I can be thankful that I'm not part of that.

I think I'll take a nap and maybe fit in a geocache.

Bonne Journée!

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