A walk on a lovely fall day........

and learning very important things like how to tell

your left hand from your right.

the one that makes the L is the left.

confusing at times for all of us....right?

Oh

CAN-A-DA

Our next stop was Victoria British Columbia.

As we got off the ship we were welcomed by greeters in old Victorian clothing.

Butchart Gardens

are over one hundred years old and occupy over 55 acres of land.

Having a bit of fun, eh!

The Japanese Garden was our favorite part.

Oh......presh

In downtown Victoria we came across the fiddling Darth Vader. Super cool and well worth tossing him a buck or two.

Caleb happened to be wearing his "Empire Strikes back" shirt,

Darth Vader was quite impressed.

Here is another interesting Canadian,

"Plaster Man".

If you put a little change in his bucket he would change positions, scaring the unsuspecting passerbyers.

Very Cool

getting a tight squeeze from the master of plaster.

We went into the Parliament building and sat in on a session.

It got quite heated between the two parties, too bad we didn't know what the issue was but it was still fun to see the same rhetoric goes on up north.

Vancouver.......
Our final destination



Stanley park had totem poles which were presented from many of
the different Indian tribes of the area.
This park was awesome, right in downtown Vancouver,
it has over 30 miles of walking trails.




Behind Mena is one of the wealthy areas of Vancouver,
we were told Oprah owns a home over on the hill.
Good for Oprah.






If you are ever in the area,
stop in at Tony's and get the fish and chips,
don't forget the clam chowder,
best chowda we have ever eatin'




After this we headed for the airport happy but exhausted from a fun filled vacation.
Thanks again Mom and Dad.
Happy 50th anniversary!!!!!

Skagway

is such a quaint little town

it was our favorite place that we visited.

We went on a hike and float tour.

Hiking through Skagway was like being in a magical and enchanted world.

Moss and mushrooms galore

I was obsessed with the mushrooms.

Rubber boots and life jackets?

good look

don't ya think?



Eating high mountain cranberries

and

seeing bear tracks

and

lots of bear poop

and...........



seeing 4 grizzly bears.

I was so excited

and I wasn't scared at all

well

we were in a raft at the time

much better than meeting one on the trail

Am I right?

It was amazing to sit and watch them catch fish after fish from the shore.

great fisherman those grizzlies.

Sailing through Endicott arm fjord.

We woke up early to see this.

What a sight to wake up to.

Later this same day we saw

lots of

killer whales

pilot whales

and

porpoises

Can you see why this was our favorite day?

One more stop.....

Canada