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awesome mom weekend
May. 13th, 2009 08:16 amI had a really great weekend in Victoria with my mom!
We got a super deal through the Clipper website...about $300 for both of us to take the Clipper up and stay in a decent hotel. While the hotel wasn't in the fanciest part of town (there were a ton of panhandlers and it was a bit dead at night), it had free bicycle rentals (which we never got around to using) and free pool passes for the local Y (hooray! a nice pool, too).
We did high tea twice, which was a bit of a mistake. Lovely food and atmosphere, but way too decadent on the tummies. Buchart Gardens was a long city bus ride (be careful to watch the schedule for leaving...we missed one by 5 minutes and had to wait almost an hour to get back to the city) and while very pretty...a little too groomed to "perfection" for my tastes. Miniature World was kinda neat (especially the tiny circus exhibit). But mostly we wandered around doing a bit of shopping and just checking things out.
Plus, we went and saw two movies. The Soloist was better than I had hoped, with some really great perspective on a person dealing with synesthesia and schizophrenia. Plus I love movies where you feel like the place is a character in the story, and Los Angeles really came through in this one. We also went to see Star Trek, which I found astonishingly delightful. The casting was just great, and the movie was tremendously funny without being overly campy, and still very entertaining. Plus some amazing action sequences. Great stuff.
We ate a lot of good food over the weekend, too. My favorite spot was a little neighborhood joint called John's Place, where I had lamb marinated in maple and discovered I really like Bloody Caesars. We also had some awesome crepes at a place called True North Gelato.
Overall, very relaxing weekend and nice to hang with my mom. Will post photos on flickr soon!
We got a super deal through the Clipper website...about $300 for both of us to take the Clipper up and stay in a decent hotel. While the hotel wasn't in the fanciest part of town (there were a ton of panhandlers and it was a bit dead at night), it had free bicycle rentals (which we never got around to using) and free pool passes for the local Y (hooray! a nice pool, too).
We did high tea twice, which was a bit of a mistake. Lovely food and atmosphere, but way too decadent on the tummies. Buchart Gardens was a long city bus ride (be careful to watch the schedule for leaving...we missed one by 5 minutes and had to wait almost an hour to get back to the city) and while very pretty...a little too groomed to "perfection" for my tastes. Miniature World was kinda neat (especially the tiny circus exhibit). But mostly we wandered around doing a bit of shopping and just checking things out.
Plus, we went and saw two movies. The Soloist was better than I had hoped, with some really great perspective on a person dealing with synesthesia and schizophrenia. Plus I love movies where you feel like the place is a character in the story, and Los Angeles really came through in this one. We also went to see Star Trek, which I found astonishingly delightful. The casting was just great, and the movie was tremendously funny without being overly campy, and still very entertaining. Plus some amazing action sequences. Great stuff.
We ate a lot of good food over the weekend, too. My favorite spot was a little neighborhood joint called John's Place, where I had lamb marinated in maple and discovered I really like Bloody Caesars. We also had some awesome crepes at a place called True North Gelato.
Overall, very relaxing weekend and nice to hang with my mom. Will post photos on flickr soon!
