Ron and Nancy came to visit in July 2016. A bit unpatriotically, we spent Forth of July weekend in Canada! Ginger has always wanted to visit there, after her family's 1998 trip there (in sixth grade).
We took the ferry from Port Angeles.
The best place in Victoria is the Butchart Gardens.
We walked all over downtown Victoria, including China Town.
On the ferry, we bought tickets to tour Craigdarroch Castle. It reminded us of our many house tours in Newport. One unique aspect of this tour was the multi-level focus on the different lives of the house- a family home for a coal baron, a hospital during the World Wars, and a small University. They decorated different rooms to represent different times, and had a large collection of anecdotes from the house's history.
We ate at the Fisherman's Wharf, and got to see seals close up!
Nancy has family in Seattle, her cousins and their family. Cynthia and Jim and their daughters Brynn and Michaela. Cynthia's twin sister Marilyn.
We visited the Boeing Factory- the largest building we've ever been inside!
(You can't take photos inside the factory, but the small museum next door has a green screen photo area.)
Marilyn lives right in the rainforest! Nancy and Ginger enjoyed a walk near her house.
We even made time for one house project- painting the marigold yellow laundry room with some cool greys.
Stephen even treated the concert floor with acid to repaint it.
Our last Tacoma tour was the Food Forest, a different kind of community garden where Theresa does her Master Gardener work. This pile of logs will become a hugulculture garden bed, where new plants grow out of burned wood.
