Victoria, BC

We started out the day at the Bug Zoo in Victoria. It's a great little place where a guide shows you all sorts of cool insects to look and and pick up. Julia is holding a walking stick


Mirissa decided to hold the walking stick too. This is Julia holding a millipede.

A millipede moustache!




















Mirissa holding a millipede!















Chris holding a tarantula.
There will be NO picture of Mirissa doing this.
They don't allow kids to hold tarantulas because if you drop it they will die because they are somewhat fragile.
Mirissa and camera disappeared when I held the scorpion! So no picture.

On our way back to our hotel we took our only family picture with one of the bears that are up around the city. We've taken pictures with four of them and Julia is determined to find them all.












































On to Butchart Gardens....

The girls had a blast at the gardens and it turned out better than we thought. We went in the late afternoon and they pretty much had free run of the place. Which was good, since Charlotte decided to wander off on her own and Julia had to stop and smell every flower and comment on what she would do where if she lived there. We pretty much would've alternated between backing up traffic and running past everyone to keep up with Charlie.