Sidney by the Sea

My really good friend Elaina is visiting from Denmark so we decided to do a day of tourist activities, even though she grew up here. It was so fun to do things that both of us remember doing as kids and loving! We went out to Sidney, which is such a cute little town. We went to the Ocean Discovery Centre and checked out some of the local sea life. It is really amazing to see up close what is lurking in the ocean that surrounds our beautiful island. The abundant life and vibrant colours are so incredible it is almost hard to believe they live in the bottom of the ocean that is a block from my house. It was a really fun thing to do with Lily and I think it will be a great place to go back to when she is older and can really understand what she is looking at. After our aquatic adventure we walked along the pier at the harbour, went to Mineral World (which we were both crazy about when we were kids!) then checked out some thrift stores. We headed over to Saanich to a restaurant called The Roost, a super adorable little farm house with tons of locally grown pumpkins all carved up and little checked table cloths. We had a lovely lunch of sandwiches and soup topped off with some tea and home baked goodies. The perfect ending to a perfect day.