Tuesday June 23rd

6:00pm

Today we had a very nice Breakfast and started out on our way to the Museum of Anthropology which I had been really looking forward to. I wasn’t too fussed at first about the Museum in Victoria, but obviously during THAT visit, I had changed my mind!!

Now, we knew the Museum of Anthropology had recently undergone lots of renovations, so we knew that some part may not have been accessible. So when we arrived and got in, it looked really nice and we started looking around. Lots and lots of totem poles which I really liked, then through a temporary exhibition on Samoan Tattoos, then of course Bill Reid’s famous Raven and Clamshell sculpture which I loved. After that, we just that the ceramics gallery – that was it!

I really thought this Museum had a lot more in it – probably in the galleries which were yet to re-open, but I honestly thought that this Museum as a whole would be SO much larger. But no, sadly I think my expectations were very high after having visited the Museum in Victoria – I expected similar exhibits in Vancouver. As a result, I was unimpressed and felt let down. Still, the totem poles out the back were very nice indeed, with reconstructions of Native houses and how they would look in context. We did go on a guided tour around the Museum which was free and definitely worth doing. The ceramics gallery turned out to be a little odd because a LOT of the things on show weren’t very old........or at least not old to us..!! I had to remind myself yet again, that 100 years is OLD here in Canada......!!

Next we went on a “walk” which was in part of Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Neither of us knew what this walk would be like, but it turned out to be 390 steps down (my ankles were quite painful after that!!) and the path was uneven PLUS walking on the beach which was uneven and very pebbly. Not particularly good for a pair of painful but flexible ankles, clumsy feet and a pair of crocs...! Well, we stayed on one apart of the beach for a little while to let my legs recover, but we soon decided it was probably a good idea to get back to the B&B....

....390 steps later, we finally made it back to the top and hobbled back to the B&B for a nice rest in the “Evil bed of softness!” before heading out to dinner. The bed was a normal mattress, covered with a spongy thing which just let you melt down into it, and it was hard to get out of the bed!! The bed was quite low, the opposite of Harvey House’s bed!! The “Tree House” bed was comfortable but once you were in....you were in!!!

We managed to get off the bed and went to have dinner at “Minerva’s” – nice to finish off with Spumone Ice Cream which was a mixture of pretty much everything!!