Easter Weekend

I got some quality goat time on the Easter weekend! We went to Vancouver Island and spent a day in Victoria, then went to Parksville and Nanaimo visiting friends and family. We walked along the waterfront in Victoria and looked at the BC Legislature:

                                      


We visited Roger, the yellow-belly marmot that lives at the Empress Hotel. This is a very swanky hotel and Roger hitched a ride here about 5 years ago from his native land in the Rockies, presumably to enjoy a warm-weathered retirement.

Roger and some bee boxes outside the Empress Hotel

Then we went to a park where there was a (children's) petting zoo! You could go right into the goat pen and the only rule was that you couldn't pick them up - it is tempting with the little kids (kid goats, that is, not random kid humans). I chased away some young children and got some quality goat time!

 

There were other animals too, including peacocks and mice. The mice were alive and moving around and some were brown and black, all things I'm not used to.

The mouse enclosure

Mice safe in their kleenex box

We did visit people too, but we didn't get any photos of them...

We were lucky enough to stay at the Paradise Seashell Motel in Parksville where you get free mini-golf on their world-famous pirate-themed course with your stay!