Victoria, Canada!

Next stop was Port Angeles to catch the ferry to Victoria, Canada.  I was amazed that two semi's drove onto this ferry, with the trailers as well.  I mean they were huge!  What they can't do these days.  After we drove on, we parked the car and walked up to the deck, and found seats.  The kids were very excited.  Actually we were all excited!

 When we got out to the open sea it got a little wavy!  We were rocking back and forth pretty good.  I was starting to feel a little woozy.  The kids were having a great time though, because it was hard to walk strait! 

Bret and Keaton out in the front, It was a little cold and windy!  As you can tell from Amber's hair.

This was our view of Victoria as we came into the bay.  I must say this city is magic!  It was so beautiful, and had lots fun things to do, and see!  Great seafood!  Lots of boardwalk stores along the bay and friendly people.

 After we got our hotel, Bret went to the store and bought us some frozen pizza and some sandwich meat, grapes, bananas, milk, cheese, cookies, chips, and other assorted foods.  We had to bring our own lunches onto the boat in the morning. We walked to the marina were our fishing boat and guide were waiting for us at 7 am.  We got on and the first thing the boys did was explore the boats lower cabin. Adam, our guide, was very nice and seemed to really know what he was doing!  I was amazed at how fast he could get all the poles ready.  We were trolling for salmon.  Don't ask me what that means.  We drove out of the bay and out to the ocean, we drove about 40 minutes to get to where the good fishing spot was.  It was bumpy fast and rocky!  We all took a sea sickness pill before we started, so we didn't have any trouble with that. 

 Amber caught the first fish!  They were hard to real in, because you had to be soft so the hook wouldn't tear through the soft mouth of the Pink Salmon.  But you also had to be strong to pull it in.  It was quite fun. 

 Then it was my turn.  I must say it was a very slimy fish, and I was happy to have it in the boat. 

 Ben got a nice big one, and wasn't shy about picking it up for a picture. 

 On the other hand Keaton didn't like touching his when he finally got it in the boat.  He said it was yicky.

 Sam had a hard time bringing his in so we did it together.  Nice big fish!

 Riding back we all bundled up and some of them fell asleep.  We were out there about 4 hours.  We caught 7 Salmon, and just had a great time. 

But we were glad to see the marina again, and put our feet on solid ground.  I also noticed that for the rest of that day, and part of the next, I still felt like I was on the wavy ocean.
That night we went to eat at this Italian place, and walked around and looked at all he shops and buildings and things.  Everything was pretty much with in walking distance from our hotel.  The kids found some souvenirs that they wanted to bring home.  We had all day Saturday to spend in Victoria, but we had to have our car in line for the 7:00pm ferry by 11 am!  It was filling up fast.  So we just walked around again and went to the natural history museum, and had a nice lunch at McDonald's!  Yuck!  All those great places to eat, and we let the kids pick.  Couldn't believe it. About 6:15 we went back to the car and had a snack, and got ready for the return trip back to the USA.