Visit to Victoria

Early morning of the twenty-fourth about 5.30am, I got up, took a bath, and got dressed and walked to New Westminster station.I arrived at New Westminster station at 7.15 am,my friends while A. Kate and A. Pui, were waiting for me. We took the skytrain to Main Street station at 7.45am and met Mrs. Melanee Yip at Pacific Central station, Vancouver, which is located across the Mian Street station where we took off the skytrain. Of course, we would visit downtown Victoria.
She drove us to Tsawwassen ferry terminal which sails every hour. It approximately took 30 minutes to there. We got on the 9am ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island. It took one hour and 35 minutes. We had breakfast on board. We had to say one hundred thank you to Melanee because she paid for us all the journey. Wow! Do you know we can take the ferry from Vancouver Island to Washington State, U.S.A. (hahaha! )if you have Canadian passport.
After that she drove us to the Butchart Gardens which is 21 kilometres far from Victoria. The ticket is $ 25 per each person. It borders on Tod inlet, close to Brentwood Bay. Covering 55 acres, The Gardens began with an idea by Jennie Butchart to beautify a worked-out limestone quarry which had supplied her husband Robert Pim Butchart's nearby portland cement plant. Through the skillful mixture of rare and exotic shrubs, trees and flowers, often personally collected by the Butcharts during their extensive world travels, the now famous Sunken Garden was created. The Gardens, started as a hobby, constantly expanded, spilling over into the Japanese, followed by the Rose and Italian Gardens. In a gesture toward their visitors, the hospitable Butcharts christened their estate "Benvenuto", the Italian word for "Welcome". By the 1920s more than fifty thousand people came each year. Today, the horticultural excellence achieved by the Butcharts is viewed by over a million visitors each year. In 2004 The Butchart Gardens, in bloom for 100 years, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
We visited and took a lot of photos there and came back to Victoria - China Town. Victoria is the capital city of the British Columbia and the hub of of provincial politics. Established in 1843 by James Douglas as a fort for the Hudson's Bay Company, Victoria has a fascinating history preserved in the city's many museums and heritage buildings. (See more at http://www.victoria.ca/visitors/about_hist.shtml)
We had lunch at Don Mee Chinese restaurant and went shopping ,just window shopping. And Melanee drove us back to the ferry at 4.30pm. Unfortunately, the ferry would depart at 7pm, so we had to wait for almost two hours. Oh! My Buddha!
We had dinner aboard and arrived at home at nearly 10pm. I have nothing to say, just how wonderful, awesome, and impressive it is! And I said to Mrs. Melanee again and again, " I hope to see you in Thailand soon." Also, I want to one thousand thank you to her. Thank you indeed! Melanee.

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