Day 7 - Cruise

Last day. The time zone changed back, so we lost an hour, but we were at sea and there was no real schedule. We slept in, and ate in the nice dining room for the last time. Most of the day was at sea. We swam, relaxed, and took pictures of the ship. Lunch at the Lido deck. We arrived in Victoria by 5:30 or 6pm. We had our Last Supper early that night, 5pm. Then we were told that we would have to wait 30 minutes for another ship to get out of our parking space..uh, dock. Then we waited another 30 min or so for it to actually leave. We finally got in about 5pm. We watched the ship dock and the people to prepare the dock for us. They lined up the ramp, and brought over a beautiful lamppost with flowers on it, and an extension cord to plug in the light, and a red carpet. It was kind of funny. Finally people could get off. I felt really sorry for the ones going up to Butchart Gardens - it's about 45min-1 hr drive, and there is so much to see! It was getting dark soon, and they are pretty pricey. I would hate to have to run through the whole thing trying to see it all before dark.

After a bit we finally got off. We were a number of blocks over from the harbor, which is where Kipp and I thought we were going to dock. We showed the kids where Kipp and I had stayed before, and walked around the harbor. We went down into the shopping, but mostly we looked for a Starbucks. As we walked we found these Eagles all painted differently. It was fun to find them.

As we were coming back we enjoyed some street performers playing some fun music with xylophones (4 sets!), and drums. The kids danced, and it was neat music. We wandered back to the harbor.
By this time most of the tourist shops were closing and only the pubs were open. We had a long walk back to the ship. We were going to go in the hot tub, but it was about 10pm already. We had to pack up our suitcases and leave them outside the door. Our last towel creature was a crab. We put the kids to bed and went up to the Crow's Nest, a lounge on the very top floor with windows on the front of the ship. We watched the city for a bit, and then went to bed.