Going On Holiday Countdown

The Westin shuttle took us to LAX, where we joined a long line of people as keen to see the back of Los Angeles as we were, we boarded our flight to Victoria via a stop over in Seattle, which looked really lovely, next time, we will come and visit, and I can then be sleepless in Seattle..we had a walk a bit of breakfast and then it was time to board our flight. the flight o Victoria was only short, but oh how spectacular, the scenery was amazing, snow covered mountains beautiful islands surrounded by blue seas,
Truly it was a wonderful sight. Entry into Canada was easy, and very soon our Scenic rep met us and escorted us to our waiting transfer, which was a very beautiful Lincoln car, OK we can do Royalty..what a beautiful car, felt a bit like the Beverly Hillbillies had hit that oil !! the drive to our accommodation was very pretty, yep, love this place, warm weather gorgeous scenery and a fancy car, what else could you ask for ???? But wait, there is more...our car turned in to a drive and Warren said, hey, look at that joint, must be some Government place, no Wazza, it's our place, the Fairmont Empress fairly took our breath away, within 3 hours I think I had a zillion photos...Oh my gosh, are we really here or is this a dream...?? We are in the Faimont Gold rooms, but took us 10 minutes to make it look very un gold as we scrambled to get ready for our welcome dinner, and have a quick run around outside the hotel. The welcome dinner was lovely, we met some great people, had a beautiful meal, then hit the streets to check out this city. Found a couple of lovely pubs to have a drink, The Sticky Wicket and Big badJohns peanut bar were great fun. Really the other end of the Fairmont Gold scale, but us to a tee...Canadians are really very lovely people. Home to get ready for another awesome day. Good morning Victoria at 2 am again, but this time I managed to go back to sleep for a while...such a shame to have to slee when there is so much to see and do....