Victoria's Inner Harbour

We spent the day downtown....something we should really take advantage of more often. In the background is the very elegant Empress Hotel. It's "Swift Sure" weekend in Victoria (an International Sailing Race). As you can see, the harbour was almost completely empty with most boats out on the water racing.

The Parliament Building overlooks the main area on the Inner Harbour.

The white structure on the water is the Undersea Gardens, where we saw various west coast species of fish, plant life and other sea creatures. The highlights for the kids were the Wolfeel and a very large octopus!

This was a small pool of star and sunfish that you could touch - very cool!

Lacrosse Season is Underway

Getting ready for practice.
It's game day !

He's ready for action (I will try to get some action shots sometime soon, it's very difficult because Taiya won't stay still for a moment and it's not indoors).

Study and Books

Taiya and Margaux (International Student from France), in the thick of studying.
It's one thing to really like books....it's another to look like a true book worm (seems that Taiya has an early start on this).

Even book worms can strike a pose with the best of them (notice the upside down glasses, she has no nose bridge to keep them up on her face).