Wednesday, August 31, 2005
victoria city
today we went up to victoria city on vancouver island. it's about 3 hours from downtown vancouver - 1 hour from town to the ferry terminal at tsawasskan, 1.5 hours ferry ride 50km over the georgia strait, and another 0.5 hours from the terminal to the inner harbour city.
the weather today was a bitch. i think you can call it london weather. a light rain; light enough such tt you can walk in it, but heavy enough to be annoying and to make it so fucking cold tt even with my thick fleece pullover i can't stop shivering.
we first went to the butchart gardens, this really gorgeous flower garden with all varieties of flowers of all shapes, all sizes and all colours... i haven't seen anything like this in a damn long time. trust me it's so so pretty. it's even more beautiful than standing in the middle of a florist shop. because all these flowers are uncut and vibrantly alive.
above and below: flowers from the garden.
above: a large fountain in the garden.
above and below: roses for the way i love him.
and me! :) yeah. it's raining. cute plastic umbrella.
so after butchart garden, we walk into victoria, the inner harbour city, for lunch. the pace of life here is really slow. it's like a retirement village for the elderly canadians and even some americans. victoria's very quaint.
it has a wharf. :)
and the fairmount empress hotel is the oldest building in victoria as well as the most prominent.
um... more victorian landscape. reminds me of singapore's supreme court, before they went and did the whole spaceship thing with it.
and how the shops in the town are arranged.
lastly, that is my lunch. all of it. a whole buttered atlantic lobster, served with buttered sauce and rice.
and this is my parents' lunch.
wash this all down with a tuxedo chocolate truffle cake, and a tiramisu... and you can forget about eating for the rest of the day.
P.S. the day before we went to richmond, a city by the vancouver airport. but it was just shopping and eating so i didn't see anything worth mentioning. and yes, whole thing with the parents is still on. i'm damn sian, but hey. it's only 6 more days. thank god.
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
the weather today was a bitch. i think you can call it london weather. a light rain; light enough such tt you can walk in it, but heavy enough to be annoying and to make it so fucking cold tt even with my thick fleece pullover i can't stop shivering.
we first went to the butchart gardens, this really gorgeous flower garden with all varieties of flowers of all shapes, all sizes and all colours... i haven't seen anything like this in a damn long time. trust me it's so so pretty. it's even more beautiful than standing in the middle of a florist shop. because all these flowers are uncut and vibrantly alive.
above and below: flowers from the garden.
above: a large fountain in the garden.
above and below: roses for the way i love him.
and me! :) yeah. it's raining. cute plastic umbrella.
so after butchart garden, we walk into victoria, the inner harbour city, for lunch. the pace of life here is really slow. it's like a retirement village for the elderly canadians and even some americans. victoria's very quaint.
it has a wharf. :)
and the fairmount empress hotel is the oldest building in victoria as well as the most prominent.
um... more victorian landscape. reminds me of singapore's supreme court, before they went and did the whole spaceship thing with it.
and how the shops in the town are arranged.
lastly, that is my lunch. all of it. a whole buttered atlantic lobster, served with buttered sauce and rice.
and this is my parents' lunch.
wash this all down with a tuxedo chocolate truffle cake, and a tiramisu... and you can forget about eating for the rest of the day.
P.S. the day before we went to richmond, a city by the vancouver airport. but it was just shopping and eating so i didn't see anything worth mentioning. and yes, whole thing with the parents is still on. i'm damn sian, but hey. it's only 6 more days. thank god.
# posted by Kitana @ 8/31/2005 03:59:00 PM 
