It’s safe to say Victoria, BC is known for its moderate climate. Canada’s westernmost provincial capital is typically light on temperature woes and if it does get “bad” it usually blows through in a day or so. This said, we recently experienced a rare snow day and we definitely made the time to celebrate and get out and play.
Recently, Jimmy was at a first aid course that spanned the entire weekend. We had some great weather so I took the kids on a fall adventure to Elk Lake. We packed along some binoculars to look around and have a nature walk. Rhys particularly enjoyed playing in a swampy area with his dinos. It was really fun and after the long walk we played on the beach with a bunch of dinosaur toys. A great day 🙂
We love Hallowe’en! We had a lot of fun this year getting costumes together, carving pumpkins, school dance for the kids, doing hallowe’en crafts and going trick or treating.
Rhys went as a werewolf and Claire a witch. Jimmy was a punk rocker and I was a bat. Wendy, Chris and Senna (who went as Cleopatra) joined us as we ventured out on a cold night to a great neighborhood where almost every house was taking part in the hallowe’en fun. The kids received way too much candy and all-in-all had a great time.
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We hosted thanksgiving this year which was great since last year we did not celebrate it in Africa. The Miller clan met up at Galey’s farm for some pumpkin patch fun. They have a giant corn maze and a train that goes around the property. You even get to take a tractor hay ride out to the pumpkin fields to pick out a pumpkin. It was great fun!
We then came back to our house for drinks, appies, and a yummy dinner. It really is nice living close to family again 🙂
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Rhys loves dinosaurs! The BBC ‘walking with dinosaurs’ tv show is a bit hit in our house and Rhys has watched it many many times. When we heard they had a live performance based on the show & it was coming to Victoria we just had to get tickets to surprise the kids. Show tickets were SO expensive but worth it.
Claire & Rhys were super excited to see a live show… the lights, noises, and giant dinos were a huge hit!
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Hard to believe we are at this stage but we are and it is going awesome.
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Sunday seems to be our go-to day of the week to do some fun adventures. The kids are enrolled in a sports class on Saturday mornings and after a busy work week we like to relax on Saturdays.
This past Sunday we drove to Shawnigan Lake to visit the historic Kinsol Trestle. It is a wooden railway trestle located north of Shawnigan Lake which is about a 45 minute drive from our house. A description on the parks website is:
“The Kinsol Trestle is one of eight trestles along the Cowichan Valley Trail route and by far the largest and most spectacular. The Kinsol Trestle is one of the tallest free-standing and most spectacular timber rail trestle structures in the world. At 614 feet in length and standing 145 feet above the salmon bearing Koksilah River, the Kinsol is an incredible structure and was worth preserving.”
We had to walk along a trail for 1.5km to get to the trestle from the parking area and it was amazing! The views were really pretty with a river down below. There were hiking trails that led to the river and we could see some people swimming in the river. The kids had a tonne of energy and we ran races the whole way to the start of the trestle. We had packed a lunch and snacks and sat at one of the available picnic tables and enjoyed the beautiful day. This was a great spot to take kids.
