Ziplining at Adrena Line adventure tours in Sooke, about 20 miles West of Victoria. We had a great time! Ethan and I have a new goal of zipping in every local there is a zipline available. We are already planning on going in Maui...and I hear there is one in Costa Rica, so I guess we must go there someday.

Ethan and I after ziplining, and a couple pics of Ethan and Eric modelling the beer cooler/backpack they bought. Eric was Molson man, about to leap off the 11th floor balcony to......give someone a beer?? Not quite sure there.

We went on a guided tour of the Parliament building, which is actively used by the BC legislature. Very cool building!! We saw the building in 2002 when we went to Victoria with Sabrina and Matt, but never went inside. We had no idea what we were missing!

Some beautiful architectural details in the Parliament building, including the BC coat of arms, some columns, a view up from the first floor into the rotunda and one of many amazing stained glass windows

More details from the Parliament Building. The little touches were just beautiful!

The legislative room and some of the many stained glass windows

Royal British Museum

Located right on the inner Harbour, an awesome museum experience. We spent about 3 hours wandering through it, then went to an Imax show called Dinosaurs. A great way to spend an afternoon. Makes me want to go to other museums so I can compare them...

More pictures from the Royal British Museum. They had this totally cool area where they sorta remade olde towne Victoria from the 1800s and had exhibits showing what life and times were like back then. The whole place was kinda dark (to protect the antique items from light damage), so pictures were tough to get, but it was very cool. Worth going back and seeing again. But I wouldn't bring Mom. The whole time, I was thinking about how DARK it was everywhere!!

Yesterday, the Sonics and the city of Seattle announced a last second deal. The Sonics go to OKC in exchange for....pretty much nothing. The deal makes no sense.

After a week of 90+ degree weather, hot, sunny and muggy; they announced this deal and the clouds rolled in and the sky opened up and the rain poured down. Almost as though the city was crying; mourning the loss of this 41 year old franchise. The rain came down, then thunder and lightning flashed and boomed overhead. It continues today.

This is a truly sad time. To have a beloved team ripped away like this, to hear the gloating coming from OKC. It just makes me think back to a year or so ago when Lauren Jackson (before the Storm was sold to local owners) said that if the team moved to OKC, she would retire from the WNBA. The best female player on the planet. She says Seattle reminds her of Sydney, she is accepted and loved here, and she is not going. She was still under contract and could have moved to try to be traded, but she flat out said she was retiring. Much love for that, Lauren.

A fine meal on a fine day in a beautiful locale.

Darling Harbour itself. Very touristy, GREAT people watching. I came here again our last night in Sydney with Mom, Lynn and Pat for a nice dinner overlooking the water.

A cool park leading from the Garden of Friendship down to Darling Harbour. It had this waterway that curved and twisted along with a variety of water features that changed every 20 feet or so.

I tucked these next three collages of pictures behind the waterfall pics in the previous layout. I didn't want to do layouts of ALL of them, but wanted the pictures included. On the back side, I have a description of whatever is in each picture.

Beautiful waterfall