So the next day was our final day in Victoria, and we wanted to make the most of it before getting on the ferry so we booked a bus tour of the city. It wasn't just any old bus tour, it actually included stops at Craigdarroch Castle, the lookout point where you can see everything from, and down at the marina where you can feed the seals. So the tour was cool. We got to ride on an open top double decker bus and drive through Chinatown and past school campuses and historical buildings, all while getting the running commentary from the driver. Then we stopped for an hour and took a tour of the castle which was beautiful. It's basically all wood and it's so well preserved. Four floors and some souvenir purchases later we were back on the bus headed to the point. You can see the ocean basically everywhere you look from that spot which was super cool and let you see just how far we were going on the tour. Then back on the bus and taken a long route down to the marina we ended up passing the petting zoo on the way where peacocks were just chillin. So we get to the marina and think "oh we don't need to buy fish to give the seals." Get down the dock and eight heads pop up giving us sad faces at the lack of fish...so we bought some. I only ended up throwing in one piece because my mom turned into a tiny excitable child, but I fed the seal that showed up last and therefore had gotten next to nothing compared to the others. He seemed to appreciate it, although I hated touching the chopped up fish. Touching fish is fine but when cut into pieces like that it's all blood and guts that you're touching... good thing I put hand sanitizer in my purse before we went on our trip. After that it was back on the bus and to the hotel. We got our stuff packed up and headed to the Butterfly Gardens which are actually very close to the Butchart Gardens. It was our last stop because it was about halfway to the ferry from our hotel. So walked around in there for an hour, got stalked by some flamingos and were back on the road. We showed up early for the ferry again and got on an earlier one which was actually a blessing because we screwed up the times and would have had to wait three hours for the next one. So by about 5 pm we were across the water and back on the Vancouver side. Rather than spend the night somewhere we decided just to drive back then, so we drove until we hit Golden at about 1 am, took a power nap in the parking lot of the Husky gas station with all the truckers and were back on the road by 5 am. We got home by 7 am, but I didn't have a house key so I slept on my mom's couch until 10 when my grandma goes for breakfast so we could surprise her and she could give me my key back. All in all a good trip, despite the fact that I managed to sunburn my entire face in overcast weather. Anyway Victoria is a good trip to go on at least once, but plan carefully because we lucked out and got in and out before most of the tourists showed up which made it infinitely more enjoyable.
Peace.
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