Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Victoria in August

From Mount Doug, as the locals call it, you can catch a million different views, all gorgeous.


I saw the young fellow below pondering the scene (above) and took his picture. Hopefully he doesn't mind being sacrificed to art. Mount Douglas is a must-see place. Our son-in-law has done some of his bicycle workouts going up and down this mountain road in the rain. Can't imagine it!

Along the inner harbour of Victoria, just in front of the famed Empress Hotel, buskers abound. We stopped to watch this one but lost our enthusiasm when he did a hissy fit with the crowd because not everyone wanted to be a guinea pig. And his trick which failed about 20 times wasn't too impressive, either.


Paying tribute to BC's wonderful native people's heritage are the spectacular totem poles throughout the city.



And here I remember our most favorite moment in Victoria this time. Our daughter and son-in-law announced we are to be grandparents and, for a few moments at least, we were stunned silent. Then the tiny tears came and I wasn't the only one crying. We were quite a table of four dabbing happily away. So imagine here the first picture of our grandchild, although you can't see much, and we'll have quite a long wait till we can.

We are delighted to be facing this next phase and can hardly wait to spoil the wee one. Life is truly great!

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