Vancouver, Canada: Day 15 and 16

Day 15

The Vancouver Island ferry to Victoria departed at 9am, so we left the hotel at 7:30am. We drove for about half an hour to get there, and then we boarded. The ferry was like a giant moving building. I ate toast with cream cheese. After eating, mom and I walked around the topdeck of the ferry, it was very, very cold. We listened to a speaker from the Costal Naturalist give a presentation on the habitat of the area and surrounding islands, it was fun to hear. She told us about bald eagles and many of the local islands, including one called called Saltspring. We left the ferry and waited another 45 minutes to board a second ferry to Saltspring. It was a 30 minute ride, mom and I stood on deck and looked out at the islands. It was very pretty! It began to rain. We left the ferry and drove through the really, really pretty island toward Ganges, to a farmers market. Unfortunately it was raining so the three of us huddled together and walked around with our umbrella. It was sort of uncomfortable having all three of us under one umbrella. We bought berries, plums, pastries and chocolate. Next we looked for a place to eat and sat down at a little restaurant, the food took forever to arrive. I ordered curry butternut-squash soup, which was very good. We walked to a little yarn shop called “Stitches”, I bought two balls of a multi-colored wool. During the ferry back to Victoria, mom and I listened to HP7 while I began a new scarf. We drove into downtown Victoria and dropped our things off at the B&B we were going to stay at. Next the three of us strolled around the city. We saw the government building all covered in lights, it looked like an english gingerbread house. China town which was a little creepy. We found a restaurant called Rebar to have dinner, it was very very good. I ordered an almond burger and I ate some of Greg’s salad. I also had a peppermint tea. After an excellant meal we walked back to our B&B. All three of us decided to take a bath, at the same time because there were 2 bathtubs. halfway through filling up both baths, the water went cold. Mom and Greg waited about 20 minutes then filled theirs up again. They could only fill it up halfway though because there was not enough hot water. I worked on my blog then went to bed.

Day 16

Today I woke up, had a shower then went down to breakfast. There were a bunch of nice people there; Robin and Suzanne, Pat and Doug and a man named Dennis. We had grilled fruit, coffee cake and Spanish French toast with orange juice and tea. Once we were done we checked out. The 3 of us drove around the block then went to another yarn shop called The Bee Hive. I bought some really nice, green toned, fuzzy yarn and then we got some lunch. I got Chow Mien, it was okay. While eating we were watched by a big seagull, I guess it was hungry. We went to the house of Greg’s friend Ken who works at Rainmaker. Ken is a really nice guy, he is a storyboard artist. We talked for a while then he showed us the house, he made the door to his office look like a submarine door, it was really, really good!! It looked totally real!! His front door had a stained glass window of a deep sea diver in it. Where the helmet was there was a little window, so that the person inside could see the person outside. On our way to MacMilllan Provential Park we drove past a building with a live, grassy roof that has a goat on top! It was called “The We left and drove 2 beautiful hours to Cathedral Grove. It was a park with amazing, old growth trees!!! They were very tall and VERY pretty!! Some were covered in fur (moss). We walked around and saw some big black slugs! They were very weird looking. We saw a huge tree, which was spectacular, it was like 7 times the size of Greg!!! After we left, we had dinner at a restaurant called the White Spot. Mom and I ordered Caesar Salad with olive oil, lemon and salt for dressing. We left and drove to the ferry to go back to Vancouver but we had to get there at 10:15pm to get our reservation, we missed it by one minute, but still got on. Mom and I listened to Harry Potter 7 while I worked on my blog. Driving back home we got a little lost, but we eventually made it!