Victoria, B.C.

We got up Monday morning from our hotel and inquired about a place for breakfast. We like to go where the locals go, so we were told that John's Place is a good place to go. We walked the few blocks through the little town to the restaurant and we had a very nice wholesome, relatively cheap meal. We liked it so much, we'll probably go back for breakfast again.

We then spent the day wandering around the town. Victoria reminds us of San Francisco and Seattle and the weather was just perfect, about 65 degrees. We wandered through shops and stores and we found a maritime museum, Josh had fun looking at all the models of old ships. Down by the water we found a charter plane that gives tours throughout the area, so Rico signed us up for a flight on Tuesday at noon, so we're excited about that.

Time goes by so fast, before we knew it, it was about 4:00 and we were tired, so we went back to our hotel, the Empress,. It's a very old, beautiful hotel located in the heart of the town of Victoria, it's located right near the water, so the view is very beautiful, but we learned during the night, it's very noisy. We heard babies crying and showers being taken and toilets being flushed. It's a beautiful old place, but so far, it's not our favorite.

At 5:30 we took a short walk to a restaurant we found on our travels earlier in the day and we both had a wonderful seafood meal. Rico had seafood risotto and I had Alaskan King Crab and lobster...we both loved our dinner! We had a little too much wine, so we took a walk before going back home, and since Josh didn't like his dinner at the restaurant, we found a McDonalds and got him a happy meal, and he ate every bite of that hamburger by the time we got back to our room.

The time goes by so fast, just like that, another day is done. Tomorrow a short tour on a sea plane. We're really looking forward to that.