Anniversary Weekend

Last Friday, the 13th, was our 10th anniversary! It sure does fly by. We took that day off and took the Victoria Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, B.C. for the weekend while my Dad and stepmom graciously watched the girls for us. We stayed at our timeshare in Seattle (WorldMark--they are all over, not just Seattle) Thursday night so we'd be close because we had to be at the Clipper pretty early, so all together we had 3 blissful kid-free nights! That is the most we've ever had at one time, other than once or twice when the girls have gone to Crescent Bar with Paul's parents for like 4 nights but we were working during the day so it's wasn't really the same.

We got there around 10:30 on Friday and it was too early to check in so we just dropped our luggage off at our hotel (WorldMark again) and went to lunch and then took a bus to the world famous Butchart Gardens.

After that, we got checked into our room and went down to the pool and hot tub for a bit, and then went to dinner at a nice seafood restaurant on the water. Saturday we just walked around and went to the museum and IMAX theater and then went to dinner at a cute little Italian place right across the street from our hotel.

I was surprised and very disappointed to discover that my favorite attraction in Victoria, the wax museum, was gone! And the famed Empress Hotel is being renovated and all the ivy that covered its entire front had been removed. It looked so weird!

What we're used to

Huh?

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