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Sunday, October 28, 2012 – We woke up on the ship in port at Saguenay. After a very leisurely breakfast on the ship we left the ship for a day of sight-seeing. The Hop-on Hop-off buses seemed the best way to see the most of this charming city.
Our first hop-off point was near a small church, a soap-making factory and glass-blowing factory. We wandered inside the church and then walked to the soap-making factory. We missed the tour so we walked across the street to the glass-blowing factory. The tours were $5.00 each so we decided to pass as neither of us is that interested in learning about glass blowing and we have both seen plenty of demonstrations.
We then walked to the biggest tourist attraction in Saguenay – the Pyramid. Okay, it's not a pyramid that we think of in the traditional sense – it's a huge pyramid made of aluminum. More specifically, yield signs that were purchased for $10.00 each.
There was a flood in 1996 which wiped out much of Saguenay. In an effort to avoid another disaster of that magnitude the townspeople erected a pyramid. They purchased 3,000 traffic yield signs from the government and arranged them to build a huge pyramid to unify the community after the disaster although we were told that many people here believe the pyramid will actually ward off another flood. After walking all the way around the structure we went inside the pyramid. We wondered why there was a gap near the top of the pyramid and then when we went inside we saw a stairway going up to the gap we had noticed from the outside allowing a nice view to anyone ambitious enough to climb up all the steps. As a side note – neither of us were feeling that ambitious.
We got back on the Hop-on Hop-off bus and rode it to the craft market in town. We left the market with a wonderful jar of local honey to take home with us. When we got to the port there was another craft market inside the port building. We left that market with a tasty jar of Saskatoon berries jam.
Back on the ship – a trip to the pizza bar for Bill and the afternoon buffet for me and a cup of hot chocolate for each of us. Our ship, the Emerald Princess was the largest ship ever to dock here so the community was fascinated. Thousands of locals from the city came to the dock to take pictures of our ship and wave good-bye to us.
(If you read the words from the layout rather than this description you will see I goofed - I put that it was in Quebec City rather than Quebec. Correcting it now on the actual layout.)
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