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Happy 4th of July!
4 July 2006 21:38Hope everyone had a nice day where ever you are.
4 July 2006
Just back and slowly recovering from two weeks of fun in the sun.
Me and a group of 8 friends which included 3 young kids took off for a tour of the Northwest - visiting Seattle, the HOH Rain Forest and then over to Victoria, Canada before returning to fly out from Seattle.
Seattle was cool - saw the Space Needle, the Science Fiction Museum (could have spent more time there!), took a ride on the Ducks of Seattle (quack, quack), took a hike around a waterfall, visited the Asian Art Museum, the Doll Museum, toured the underground, shopped in Pikes Place and took in the Tillicum Village Salmon roast and show.
And not a single drop of rain. Not even a cloudy sky!
Then it was off to the HOH Rain Forest, where we stayed in a Hostel for three nights and did the Rain forest and several cool windswept beaches in the area. Again, not a drop of rain. Not only no rain, but it was a sweltering 92 degrees and soaking humidity the day we were in the rain forest!!!!
What's all this? did we bring the heat with us?
Then off for the ferry for Victoria where it was time to do a whole bunch of gardens and more shopping! :) I was light on the museums here. I did the Undersea Gardens, the Butchart Gardens, the Butterfly Gardens and Craigdarroch Castle as well as a horse carriage tour of the harbor. Then celebrated Canada Day with a whole lot of happy Canadians with fireworks at Victoria Harbor. I had wanted to do the BC Musuem, but the entrance fee was a bit offputting coming as it was at the end of the two weeks.
And no, it didn't rain here either.
I've got a lot of photo's to download and print up now :)
Me and a group of 8 friends which included 3 young kids took off for a tour of the Northwest - visiting Seattle, the HOH Rain Forest and then over to Victoria, Canada before returning to fly out from Seattle.
Seattle was cool - saw the Space Needle, the Science Fiction Museum (could have spent more time there!), took a ride on the Ducks of Seattle (quack, quack), took a hike around a waterfall, visited the Asian Art Museum, the Doll Museum, toured the underground, shopped in Pikes Place and took in the Tillicum Village Salmon roast and show.
And not a single drop of rain. Not even a cloudy sky!
Then it was off to the HOH Rain Forest, where we stayed in a Hostel for three nights and did the Rain forest and several cool windswept beaches in the area. Again, not a drop of rain. Not only no rain, but it was a sweltering 92 degrees and soaking humidity the day we were in the rain forest!!!!
What's all this? did we bring the heat with us?
Then off for the ferry for Victoria where it was time to do a whole bunch of gardens and more shopping! :) I was light on the museums here. I did the Undersea Gardens, the Butchart Gardens, the Butterfly Gardens and Craigdarroch Castle as well as a horse carriage tour of the harbor. Then celebrated Canada Day with a whole lot of happy Canadians with fireworks at Victoria Harbor. I had wanted to do the BC Musuem, but the entrance fee was a bit offputting coming as it was at the end of the two weeks.
And no, it didn't rain here either.
I've got a lot of photo's to download and print up now :)
