Victoria - Capital of BC, on Vancouver Island

We went out looking for somewhere to have breakfast, so we drove into towards the harbour area. We parked the car at the wharf and walked up towards Bastion Square. We found a great little place called The Blue Carrot. We all got a cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and potato pieces for $7.95 each. Pretty good value.

We then headed towards the Royal BC Museum. We purchased a 12 month family pass, as we hope to get back a few times during the year, and then spent a couple of hours going through the exhibits. The First Nations exhibit is very interesting. As we left the museum we walked through Thunderbird Park where there are about a dozen totem poles.

One of Daniel's memories from 2001 was eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory, so we headed across the road for an early dinner. As we were eating it began to snow. The tourist books say that, "in February, the local Victorians can be found at the sidewalk cafes, and counting the blossoms." Well not this year, and this was mid March. It was nice sitting inside, watching the snowflakes fall on the bowling green next door, and the roofs and trees nearby.

After having an early dinner we were trying to decide what to do with the rest of the evening. We decided to go to the movies and watch Slumdog Millionaire. When we arrived in town this morning we parked down by the wharf. We paid for a ticket through till 6 pm. I headed down to get another ticket for the evening, or move the car, while the others decided to walk to the theatre. When I got to the car park it was about 6:15 and the parking attendant was booking cars that didn't have an evening ticket. Luckily our car was quite a way away from the pay booth, and this was where he had started. I got to the car ..... luckily no ticket, got in and decided I would find parking closer to the theater. Afterall it was after 6 pm. and most of the street parking was free. Kerrie had already seen Slum Dog Millionaire, so she went to something else while we all enjoyed it.

There are some really interesting shops around the city and it is fun just walking up and down the streets window shopping. On the way to the car we passed a few shops that we thought would be good to come back to tomorrow, and then we headed for the motel.