Coming to you from the west coast of Canada

Victoria, B.C., has a totally different feel to Ontario!  The weather here has been rainy and a little cool, but no snow.  Yesterday morning's Remembrance Day commemoration took place under cloudy skies, the rain held off until later in the day.

We have been having a great time meeting up with our friends, and with friends of our house sitters.  Yesterday afternoon we visited Goldstream Provincial Park to see the salmon run, something we don't have in Australia - it was amazing, and so interesting!  Thank you, Cathy and John, for an experience we would not have had otherwise.  Our visit to the park ended up with all four of us slightly dripping, but not quite as wet as the fish.

Today we had another good day out with friends including a visit to Sidney, B.C. which, if you haven't been there, is a very pretty town; then we headed to Butchart Gardens for a visit.  Our one-and-only visit to the gardens was six years ago in mid-summer when the roses were in full bloom; now the trees are dropping their leaves and the colours are very pretty.  The gardens has fun decorations for Christmas, some are already in place - we saw swans a-swimming, geese a-laying, maids a-milking, pipers piping.........no prizes for guessing the theme!

When we left Toronto to fly to Vancouver it was very foggy, just as well the plane and the pilot knew where they were going.  Here's hoping for an uneventful flight from Vancouver.....if only it weren't so long......the flight leaves at 11.45pm which is not a good time to start a 15-hour flight.......

Next time we all meet in blogland will probably be after our arrival back in the Small Smoke (there are a couple of Big Smokes to pass through beforehand), and you will hear about the rest of our adventures then.

Enjoy your days!