Victoria, BC

We took the Ferry over from Washington to Vancouver Island and our good friends Nancy and Lucille picked us up at the Ferry Terminal. They were waving as we walked off the boat.

Nancy brought us on the most incredible tour of Vancouver Island ~ which we finally realized is different than Vancouver the city. I don't think Vancouver Island should allow Nancy to do tours . . . If you all had the tour she gave us, we would all be moving to Vancouver Island. Truly we had the most amazing day and the most amazing tour. We went to the top of Mount Tolmie and saw an overlook of the island and all the little islands around, and then down to the beach, we drove though the university grounds and saw the most amazing bunnies (more on the bunnies later) we walked around Fishermans Wharf and fell in love with the little house boats homes, we walked though the tourist part of town and ate chocolate at Rogers Chocolates (amazing) www.rogerschocolates.com, we saw the Victoria Government Parliament Buildings and the local juggler.

We went to both Nancy & Don's and Lucille & Ken's homes. Nancy made us a wonderful lunch with homemade potato salad and a carrot cake better than we've ever had in our lives.


I had the most miserable time going through border patrol after our relaxing day . . . apparently I have an outstanding parking ticket in New Mexico from 3 years ago and that was enough for the Border Patrol to give me the biggest hassle. We almost missed the ferry because of the whole interrogation . . . Nancy we almost became your new long term house guests. I'm a little leary about going back up to Canada again today . . . the Canadians are wonderful with you visiting their country but getting back to the US is really unpleasant!

Our ferry made an extra stop and had a delay because of another ferry crossing and we didn't get back to our car until 10:00PM. . . . met a couple on the ferry who needed a ride down to the docks where their car was . . . it was only a few miles but we're using that as our pay it forward from the Fog City Diner! They were really nice people and we may have scared them with the condition of our minivan. . . . it looks like we've been living in it for a few years. Got back to Bellingham at 11:00 and snuck onto Martyn's boat . . . we were ever so quiet crawling on board.

Thank you Nancy, Don, Lucille, & Ken for a great visit . . . please come visit us in San Diego soon!