Be A Tourist In Your Cousins Home Town

We went to Victoria this weekend. The girls skipped school Friday and we hopped on a ferry over to the island to do some sight seeing. We had Darcy's cousin pick us up some "Be a Tourist In You Own Town" tickets - for $10.50 we got to see lots of things for free or for reduced prices. Even the hotel was cheaper.

The first thing we went to see was Miniature World. I remember going when I was 12 or so and knew the kids would like it. Jaden loved watching all the choo choo trains.Even the weather cooperated with us. It was sunnyish but still not very warm. On Saturday we went to see the Parliament building. Amazing how they built with such detail so long before all these fancy machines we have now. We couldn't go inside because they are closed on weekends.

We went to the Undersea Gardens and got to hold some Sea Stars

and then we went to the Royal BC Museum. We spent hours here just looking at all they had to see. We also saw an IMAX about horses.Sunday was our last day but we didn't need to catch the ferry until 3:00 so we had lots of time for fun. First we went to the Beacon Hill Children's Farm.

They had some cute baby goats Rachael fell in love with.

Then we went to the Victoria Butterfly Gardens. They also had birds, fish and flamingos there.

And we even had time to go to the Scratch Patch in Mineral World where the girls each got to pick out some pretty rocks to take home. Unfortunately we were too busy chasing Jaden around to get any pictures. We had lots of fun on the weekend, but chasing a two year old around everywhere doesn't exactly make it relaxing. Good memories, though.