August 16 Mom, Dad, Kyle and I went to Victoria.
We stopped to visit Dad's aunt Eileen in the resthome
Waiting for the ferry
The view from the room in Victoria
I took this picture while we were eating at a yummy fish & chips place down by the houseboats.
More views from our room... Beautiful sunsets!
View of the houseboats at night.
View of the houseboats from the room.
We were in town the weekend of the dragon boat races.
Before the races started, some of the water-taxis got together and performed a synchronized water-taxi dance.
Kyle enjoying the Victoria view.
Some of the houseboats were pretty cool...
But for a few reasons we decided we'd still probably never want to live in this particular "neighborhood" of houseboats...
None of us had ever seen a flower like this before... It looks so alien! If anyone knows what it is please leave a comment, I'm still curious about it!
This seal has been around Victoria for at least 3 or 4 years. His name is Charlie and he's recognizable because he only has one eye.
At the beach
When Mom and Dad were in Victoria one time they wandered around a massive graveyard for 2 hours trying to find Dad's grandparents (on his dad's side). We drove past the graveyard this time and saw someone there so we stopped to talk to him. He had several big books (originals) with every name in the graveyard handwritten in them. He looked up my great-grandparents first by date, then by name and finally found their plot. The grave marker is fading and sunken into the ground but it marks my great-grandmother, "M.A. Shepherd 1849-1936" (for Mary Ann). Great-grandpa is buried here also but he isn't marked. He died when he was 80 from complications after being hit by a car. It must not have been going very fast since it was in 1922!
We were walking down one of the streets near where Grandma used to live and I stopped to look at some paintings through a window. I think I gave Mom and Dad and Kyle a heartattack when I started yelling... The big one and the little one on the above left (you can't see that one very well) were painted by Dad's nephew, Keith.
And of course no trip is perfect without Starbucks...
A gorgeous sunset on the ferry-ride back
2 comments:
Hey Kari-Looks like a beautiful trip. Did you stay at the worldmark in Victoria? Just wondering.
I'm also happy that I can tell you that the flower is a Passion flower. Its named "passion" after the crucification of Christ, not love, because someone thought it looked like a crown of thorns. The ten petals represent the ten faithful apostiles. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora
Oh hmm wow that is really interesting! Thanks! Yeah we did stay in the Worldmark penthouse.. It was nice. :) Mom and Dad stayed the whole week but Kyle and I just for the weekend, he had to get back to work. Victoria is so much fun tho!
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