Last weekend, some friends and I went out to one of the local tourist attractions outside of Victoria and while we were there, we took some pictures. I thought that I would share a couple of them with you. (Thanks MM, for sending them to me) If you so desire, and you think you know where we went (if you're familiar with Victoria), please leave your "guess" as a comment.

Even though it wasn't really that cold, one of our group had to check out the hot chocolate. This is not unusual for her to try the hot chocolate. After our tea break and our meeting with another friend who is working there, we embarked on our walkabout.

Here are a few of the things that we encountered along the way...

I found this one extremely fascinating. The colours were so different and the picture turned out really nice. There is also a restaurant at this place that has the same name as this one to the left.

And here is something we didn't really expect to encounter. We couldn't really figure out if it was real or a reasonable facsimile and it would have been difficult to get any closer to where it was resting.

After motoring around for a while, we ate lunch and then ventured to the gift shops. There are a couple of them and we checked them all out however, in the upscale one, we found this really cool water feature that was made from musical instruments and other interesting items. Not only was it beautiful but it also inspired me creatively. I've come up with some ideas but need to develop a few skills before I can work on them.

Funny, the idea of a creative co-operative came up in discussion again.

Anyway, besides the exorbitant admission fee, I think that the three of us can agree that we had fun and a good part of it was that we got there really early and avoided the throngs of tourists. There was one annoying part and that was the guy who spent a good chunk of time while we were paying for stuff at the gift shop chatting one of my friends up in Japanese. He assumed that he was the only one who understood but all three of us knew what he was saying. So I ask, what is it with these white guys who spend their time trying to impress Japanese girls with their attempts at speaking the language? I believe that usually, these types of guys are latently homosexual and they figure if they get involved with girls that are kind of androgynous and they're actually female then the guys can continue to live the lie. (This guy definitely fit that mould.)

It was a great day and fun was had by all. Except for the ones that got a little carsick on the bus. I'm so glad that I don't have that trouble.

Thanks M & S! It was a great day.

Have a great weekend everyone! (Oh, and any guesses where we were?)