We got into Victoria in the dark and rain and promptly got turned around and found ourselves heading up the Trans Canada Highway heading for Nanaimo! So we got turned around and headed back the way we were supposed to be heading and got there and checked in and relaxed...................for all of about half an hour and then we headed for a tour of the hotel to show the girls around. We went and looked at all the shops in the hotel and then into the convention centre that is attached to the Empress and then checked out the pool! The halls and main areas have pictures on all the walls of times gone by at the Empress. All the visiting dignitaries and famous people from the 30's onward. Of course the Queen has been here several times. We had found ourselves a corner grocery and had pop and goodies so we went back to the room and got into our jammies and ate crap and layed around and laughed and read our books and went to sleep fairly early.
Saturday morning we were up bright and early drinking coffee and chatting and laughing. We had thrown the windows open and a seagull arrived looking for handouts. He stood on the window sill and ate potato chips and chocolates out of our hands. He stayed with us all weekend. If we went out he flew off and as soon as we arrived back in the room he was back and tapping on the window to let us know he was there and hungry!
October 30th was Lynnie's 60th birthday and my 59th was the 10th of November so this was a birthday weekend. We opened presents and gave each other cards. It was so nice and it's so nice to have a group of friends like we do. We've been friends for almost 30 years. We are sisters of the heart and we love each other and love to spend time with each other. We get together one night a week for girls night where we do crafts or go to a movie or just have dinner and chat. We've been on several girls weekend get aways too. We did the Alaskan cruise with my Mom in the summer of 08. We have a special little place in Hope we go to with individual cabins. We always stay in the two bedroom cabin with fireplace and full kitchen. They even let us bring our little dogs. Heavenly!
We went for a swim on Saturday before we headed out. The day cleared up and the sun shone. We wandered along the waterfront and headed for China Town. We found a nice little restaurant called Fan Tan Cafe and had a delicious lunch. We shopped and the rain came and went along with the sunshine. By the time we got back to the hotel it was getting dark. We went and had a bit of a rest and then made dinner reservations at the Keg that was just a couple of blocks away. We stepped outside intending to walk the couple of blocks and the skies opened and the rain came down in buckets so we hailed a cab and off we went. We had a lovely dinner. The Keg is in an old historical building and we sat near a window and watched the world go by. NO RAIN. We finished up and headed out to walk back to the hotel, got outside and the skies opened again and another downpour. So another cab ride back to the hotel!
Sunday we got up and pretty much had a repeat of Saturday morning - coffee, chocolate, laughter and talking, hungry seagull pal who brought a buddy, a last swim and back to get our stuff together and checkout at 11. We were looking for fish and chips for lunch so we headed over to Fisherman's Warf. Unfortuneatly Barb's Fish and Chips was closed for the season but we decided to wander along anyway. We were so glad we did. A pair of harbour seals were sitting in the water outside the fish store and they were so sweet. They were watching the store and the comings and goings and trying to figure out which of the many passerby's was going to buy them a fish. The one guy would lift himself out of the water and move back so he could keep an eye on that doorway. If it looked promising he would move right up to the dock and wait. He had a buddy/wife/girlfriend with him that was quite content to just float and wait to see what happened.
We got the vehicle and just started meandering our way towards the ferry terminal. We were keeping an eye out for someplace to have fish and chips for lunch. We found the best restaurant along the way right on the beach. We sat in the window and watched the waves roll in. Totally the best. The girls had eggs benny but they had fish and chips with salmon and it was soooo good. http://www.mcmorrans.com/
Brunch at Charters. Try it if you are out that way. Mmmm good.
We wandered along after lunch until we came to Sidney. We watched some people kite boarding but it was cold! Very cold. We didn't last long there. We got to the ferry in good time and went in and sat and read for awhile in the terminal till the ferry came in and we boarded. Another wonderful weeked. :)
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