A lot of pictures for this post, so I'll cut down on the minutia.
On this morning we docked in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. John would stay onboard while Norma, Todd and I had an excursion to Butchart Gardens and Craigdarroch Castle. We met Norma at her room at 8:45 then headed down our designated excursion post in the Palace Theater on deck 5. They grouped by excursion type, then when the time came we left the ship in groups to board the buses.
Our guide and driver took us through Victoria first, then on to our first stop. We arrived at Butchart Gardens at 10am, and it was incredible. We had 1 1/2 hours to tour the gardens, but in hindsight we should have spent all day there, it was that amazingly beautiful.
After the gardens the bus took us back to Victoria at 12:30 where we toured Craigdarroch Castle which is not really a castle, but a storied old house/mansion. It was interesting, but paled compared to the previous stop. We spent an hour at Craigdarroch then drove back through Victoria to the port.
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