Fall Break 2008 - Canada (a)

This year for fall break Brighton and I went to Canada with Brighton's parents. We spent a whole week there and had an awesome time! Canada was so beautiful and I am missing it already. We got there late Sunday night, slept in Monday morning, and relaxed most of the day. It was raining Monday and Canada's Thanksgiving, so we visited the Mall, the beach, the visitors center, and learned British Columbia's roads. This is a picture from the first day and it is of the waterfall right out side of our hotel balcony.

This is a picture of a beach we went to. It was raining while we were there but it was so gorgeous!! The ocean was everywhere (I guess because we were on an island) and it never ceased to take my breath every. Even in the rain.

Totem polls are everywhere in British Columbia and this was our first encounter with one. I think Brighton and his dad are doing a sweet job to try and look like the totem poll.

On Tuesday the rain had let up and the day was perfect. We went to the Butchart Gardens which are gardens that more then 100 yrs old. Unfortunately, my camera battery died 20 minutes after we got there!! So I have a couple pictures on my digital camera and the rest are on a disposable camera. I am going to get them on a CD because Butchart Gardens was one of my favorite places we visited and I want to share the pictures!! This picture is of the entrance to the gardens. It was how it was October and they still had a lot of flowers blooming!

After this picture is when our camera battery sign started flashing however, we still got a couple more pictures in. This place was called the hanging gardens. This picture does not do it justice but I hope you get at least glimpse of what we saw.

I took a picture of these flowers at Butchart Gardens because I planted some of them in a flower pot I have here. However, mine have died already and their's are still flourishing. I was trying to take notes.

Later that day we went to downtown Victoria and the saw the Parliament building and walked the streets. While we were walking we saw this awesome street sign. (For any of you who don't know, my maiden name is Yates.) What are the odds there's a Yates street in Victoria?

If that wasn't cool enough there was also a Yates Street Shoes there also. However, we did not go in. I do not need any more shoes. These were the last pictures taken before our camera battery died. The next day we got our camera battery charged for $7.00 at the mall so I am still missing another days worth of pictures.

However, do not worry I still have a lot of pictures to show. Our adventure does not stop there. But it will continue on another day. I have a lot of homework to do and way too many pictures to share. But I thought I would at least get our Canada adventure going...

to be continued...