Victoria: Day 2

I bought an audio file for my iPod that was a walking tour of Victoria. The cool thing about it is that it's like your own personal tour guide, but you can pause and go check out this or that shop, wander off course and then come back later.

Of course, the tour led us in front of the legislature buildings.



It was officially 1 1/2 hours long, but it took us much longer.

During the tour, we stopped to watch a street performer. He preformed such feats as stepping through a tennis racquet while balancing a golf club on his chin and juggling flaming torches while riding a 6 foot unicycle. Very entertaining!



Then we hopped on a little ferry and went to check out Fisherman's wharf. We had lunch at Barb's Fish & Chips.



Since we'd paid for hop on, hop off tickets for a tour bus, we hopped on and hitched a lift back to the downtown. We went in to the UnderSea Garden, which was ok, but not awesome. I did get a couple good photos though:




Then we crossed the street back to the legislature building. They seem much more approachable than the capital buildings in Sacramento -- there were people napping and playing frisbee on the lawn. We thought that sounded good, so we snoozed for a bit too. Then we pressed play and finished up the last bit of our tour.

I was still full from our Fish & Chip lunch, but Haley insisted she was starving. On the advice of the helpful hostel guy, we went to QV, a local burger joint. They have the 2nd best milkshakes I've ever tasted (Toni's truckstop on Guintoli holds my 1st loyalty!) They use the coffee syrups to flavor their shakes, which works *really* well! I had chocolate with a shot of caramel, and Haley had a root beer shake. They had the best-presented burger I've ever seen :)