Notice the sweet guitar our waiter Benito has! (Its a pepper mill and a plate coverOur 10th Wedding Anniversary: (Its only a picture of the cake because I was the one taking all the pictures!)
And Nick and Elaine's 40th wedding anniversary:
Elaine is singing "Let me call you sweetheart" with the wait staff! :) Awwwww!The next day we docked in Victoria,BC around 5pm. This is the view of Victoria from our balcony as we pulled in:
We headed out by bus to see the Butchart Gardens. Victoria is a beautiful city and just about anything will grow there. There are gardens and flowers everywhere! We arrived at Butchart with high expectations. (Elaine got lots of ideas for her garden next year!)
We were not disappointed. Butchart Gardens is truly stunning. http://www.butchartgardens.com/ There are 2 acres of beautifully, blooming flowers, plants and trees. (The garden is actually 55 acres, but a lot of the land is used for behind the scenes growing.) We made our way from the entrance of the park to the "Sunken Garden." This garden is the one that started it all. The Butchart Family owned Portland Cement. Mrs. Butchart decided to make one of their old limestone quarries in Victoria into a garden. That was 1904. This is the result:
Not bad for an old limestone quarry, huh?
That's me in the rose garden, which had hundreds of varieties of roses. It smelled so good! The Japanese Garden was added around 1908.
Not long after this it started to get too dark to keep taking pictures. I wish we could have stayed longer. Our bus headed to Church and State Winery for a little vino! http://www.churchandstatewines.com/
Back on the ship we went and onto Seattle tomorrow which completes our trip. All good things must come to an end! :(
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