We began our day with a 4 course breakfast at our B&B. We had yogurt with granola, dragonfruit and melon, orange poppyseed scones, raspberry and pineapple bread, and a hot plate of salmon, cheese, polenta cakes and a frittata. We were stuffed!!

We then headed out into the rain in our rain gear and umbrellas. Our first stop was the Victoria Bug Zoo and it was amazing! We got to hold huge bugs like walking sticks, catydids, cockroaches, praying mantis, and millipedes to name a few. It was sweet! The whole time I was thinking my sister would love this place. She’s always said she’d be cave tour guide when she retired from teaching, but I think this place would also be a good fit. :)

Then we thought we’d go inside the Parliment building, but they only do guided tours on the weekends and that didn’t interest us. So, by recommendation of our breakfast buddies from Calgary, we tried out the Royal BC Museum. It was nice to get out of the rain since it was soaking through my shoes, but I’ll have to say natural history museums are not for me. Too many taxidermy animals and old stuff to look at. We should have seen the Hubble IMAX narrated by Leo instead.

After the museum, we ate our leftover scones and bread from breakfast. I also had a bubble tea while Jeff enjoyed a chocolate covered waffle. This was our nutritious lunch since we were still pretty full from breakfast.

After these adventures, we headed to our room to dry out. Then, despite the rain we decided to drive out to Bruchart Gardens. Jeff and I both discussed how much our moms would enjoy this place. Lots of beautiful flowers and it finally stopped raining in time for the fireworks show. Let me just say this is one serious fireworks display choreographed to music. Dancing fireworks. Fireworks that shot sideways. Bug shaped fireworks robots. Crazy stuff! You’d have to see it to appreciate it, but I’d give it to thumbs up. Now it’s past my bedtime so we’ll see you tomorrow in Vancouver.