Sunday, October 28, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Butchart Gardens (Winter secret)
It may seem that we missed all the flowers and we missed out on everything. Well we did miss that, but what we got was a tour only given in the winter months of the home. They set out old photos and items of the Butchart family that tells a great history. Something we never would of seen if there was flowers everywhere
Monday, March 05, 2007
Victoria's Craigdarroch Castle (Craig-Derrick)
I love castles and had to take a tour. Very beautiful wood work done in this home. No hauntings of any kind. It was built by Robert Dunsmuir (a very wealthy coalworker) for his wife Joan who would only live in Victoria if it was in a Castle. Before it was finished Robert died and Joan lived in it until she died a long time later. The kids were left with it and did not want it. The eldest son decided to build his own castle and moved out. The kids tried to sell it and nothing, they tried to sell furniture inside and some sold. They eventually raffled it off for $1 a ticket and made more that way then they thought. A fur trader won it for a dollar and moved in boarding himself up in only one room since it costs so mujch to heat it with six fireplaces. He eventually lost the castle and all of his money to it, and over the years it eventually became a historic site and the furniture sold before was either bought back or re-donated. Very well restored and a great story.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Onward to Canada
I lived in Toronto, Ontario before, some coming to Canada felt like going home :)
We took the Victoria Clipper to Victoria, BC. Once here we saw The Empress Hotel, the Parliment Building, Rogers Chocolates, China Town, and Fan Tan Alley in China Town (made famous from the movie "Bird on a Wire"), also we took a city tour and stopped off to see the Marina to see wild Seals.