Susan booked the worldmark resort a year ago, all excited about spending another Canada Day in Canada!! She and her girlfriends stayed from tuesday til friday, but were supposed to stay on until tuesday! But Mike wasn't feeling well, so they cut their trip short and headed home.......leaving a perfectly lovely unit empty for the weekend!!
We weren't planning on going anywhere, but not to pass up a chance to spend some time at a worldmark--i packed up the kids along with friend and her kids and we were off!!
First stop was the Shaw Discovery Centre in Sidney.....
Touch pool......
Oldest friends......
the sun was in our eyes.....
Getting ready to go swimming!!!
Friday night Chris surprised us by coming to Victoria....we spent the evening down on the harbor watching Talula strut her stuff. At the beginning of her show, she was wearing a tight, nasty red Canada tracksuit with Canada printed across the bum.....at one point, she bends over to a stranger and says "hey, you want to touch Canada?"....and now by boys think its the funniest joke to bend over and ask if we all want to touch canada.....he really wanted to do the joke to max when he gets home, and that opened the conversation to appropriate timing....like, since max wasn't at the show, he would probably just think its creepy if isaac asked him to touch canada....so, always the thinker, says, "what if i put tape on my bum that said Canada?" Ummm.....again....still creepy honey.
Chris said for the first time in weeks, there were a few hours here that he didn't think about camp....being surrounded by his family, laughing on a beautiful evening, was just what he needed. He had a good sleep once we got back to the hotel and he was up and gone by 5:45am......back to work!
I love the Victoria worldmark...here is the view from the bedroom.....
Saturday morning, the Smiths left and we headed down to fishermans wharf to feed the sealions! Definate highlight of the day according to both boys!
That afternoon we had planned on coming back to the wharf so isaac to try his first raw oyster! After 3pm, it was a buck a shuck! So.....when Grandma and Grandpa came down to visit us for a few hours in the afternoon, we brought them down for a walk to show them the sealions.....
The before picture.....i didn't take an after....took video enstead...but he slid it in, chewed it around a little...and swallowed. When asked if he would do that again? He said nope.
Both boys got shark teeth to make into necklaces.....we will need to
wrangle kelly or rachel to help us make them at some point this summer!!
Victoria is lovely to visit, and its lovely to go home. We had alot of fun swimming, eating fish tacos, oysters, watching movies, walking....it was a nice mini holiday! Thanks Susan and Mike!
