Vancouver Island - Day 7

Another great start to the day, with a coffee and an ocean view.  After breakfast and packing up, our first stop was the nearby market and tourist attraction called Goats on the Roof.  It is a market in a building that has grass and goats on the roof (surprise!).  We spent some time shopping and wandering the area and buying some doughnuts from a local shop, as Sandra loves finding local doughnut shops.  I found the row of shops on the highway very interesting, as at one point they had a hippie shop beside an army surplus shop, with a red fire truck in front of it.  Straight out of Radiator Springs.

Once we were done shopping, we then drove down to Duncan to meet Mike and Sharlene and have lunch.  Duncan was having a street fair, so it was busy downtown, but there was live music as well as a lot of street sales.  We spent a couple of hours visiting over lunch in a nice outdoor deck before heading into Victoria and our final destination of the day, The Butchart Gardens.

Obviously, this stop was primarily for Sandra, and we must have seemed quite out of place wandering the flower gardens with three older boys.  There were some very pretty flowers, and Evan even liked the dragon fountain and Japanese garden.  Once we had walked through all the various gardens, we spent a bit of time shopping and then headed back to our hotel for the evening.

Tomorrow we plan on exploring Victoria a bit and then we'll take an evening ferry to Washington, leaving Vancouver Island (and Canada) behind.