we rented our car and a GPS so we could find our way easier....
first stop... Food. This is where we parked, we saw this bronze statue, I'm not sure if his fingernails are supposed to be blue... but we liked them just the same!
proof that Dean paid for parking... you'll see why that's pertinent later...
pretty flowers everywhere in the courtyard.. can you find Maddie?
more where's Maddie pix...
We arrived too early to the restaurant there was still 15 minutes before opening. Maddie found a Vegan place she was so excited to try, it's not often she doesn't have to read or ask what's in everything.
a happy Maddie face
next stop the Bug Zoo, Maddie stops to take a few pictures, in which case, so did I
past the giant tulips...
Can't wait to go in...yikes!!
bugs freak me out... but within minutes our tourguide Avril, had us intrigued beyond my wildest imagination.... this little guy looked like jewellery, in fact some people do make pieces out of them, we even saw a CSI episode where they had done that, it was true!
next a huge cockroach.... eek I had the eeby jeebys just watching Maddie hold it!
a scorpion, you have to be 19 to hold it, so Maddie could only pet it
ok... that's seriously BRAVE a millipede mustache....arghhhhh
i forget this guys name, but the damn bugs kept getting bigger!!! If you saw Men in Black, this is the bug that the coffee drinking aliens were modeled after!
see!! bigger and bigger
Maddie wasn't the only brave one.... well ok still not so brave!!
our tour guide was awesome, she had tons of fun facts, and witty comments!! Very fun place, it surprised me how much I enjoyed the bug zoo!!
now onto the Royal BC museum. The first floor had lots.... and lots of stuffed animals.... oops sorry Maddie, it never dawned on me the museum would be full of them duh!! but what was really creepy was the bird section, usually you see stuffed birds in a kewl pose... well uhmm this bird display looked like what you see when a bird hits your window??? head twisted to one side and lieing on it's back.... okay ewww!! I'd much rather see them in a pose.... and they had a display of chipmunks with white bulging eye things??? glahhhg get me outta here. lol anyway then we went to the Imax theater and watched dinosaurs... so that was better, but there was one more floor of the museum to go...
Now we're talkin, this is more the museum-y stuff I like ...trivia and our history
don't even try and read this it's too blurry I don't want to make you dizzy, I'll tell you what it says.. #28 is the Jettson, a 1998 creation of BC shoe designer John Fluevog!! haha 2 months ago I wouldn't have known what that was but I do now :-) and the "New Coke" premiered at Expo 1986
those blue shoes are the fluevogs, and the New Coke can is obvious :-)
Did anyone else have this easy curl as a kid! I did lol
this part was so kewl, me and Maddie couldn't stop taking pictures this huge section was like walking thru time, you could go upstairs into the "house" or walk the shops, there was even Chinatown and a stable, and a seaside with seagulls waiting for fisheads from the salmon factory.
unfortunately when we got back to the car we had our SECOND ticket on it!! The first one was because we went overtime in the bug zoo not realizing we would be longer than 2 hours! and the second, the ticket dispenser didn't print out a ticket... welcome to Victoria!! P.S. the tickets are plastic... you know it's a rainy area when your ticket is plastsized!
on that note, we headed outta town, to Nanaimo. That's where the wedding is.. until tomorrow's adventures... c u then :-)
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