We had a very early start this morning as we were due to be picked up just after 7am for a trip to Vancouver Island. The coach duly arrived on time and we caught the 0900 ferry across to Victoria - the capital of British Columbia. The ferry crossing took one and a half hours and we were lucky enough to see a pod of killer whales on the way over. The others on the coach were only on a one day trip - we are here overnight - so after a quick tour of Victoria the rest of the party were dropped off for their '3 hours free-time' and we were taken to our hotel to check in and drop off our bags.
This afternoon we visited the Royal BC Museum and then popped into the Parliament Building, the home of the BC Legislative Council, and saw the main council chamber. The building sits at one end of the inner harbour and is in a lovely situation
We again both feel pretty tired after a long day so we returned to the hotel early, and I am sitting blogging this in our very nice 9th floor room looking down a short street to the inner harbour where I can see sea-planes taking off and landing
Tomorrow we are off to the world famous Butchard Gardens, so fingers crossed for a nice day.
1 comments:
Hi Judy,
Welcome back to North America. Glad you made it safely. I hadn't realized you were going to be here so soon. Vancouver sounds excellent - that's what everybody says.
We're all doing fine - Emma would tell you that she has just five weeks left of school for this year. Amazing.
We're still very much enjoying your posts, and look forwards to reading more.
Bye for now,
Mike, Nan & Emma
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