Hello Victoria

We actually intended for this all to be one post, but we were too quick on the "publish" trigger!

Anyway, here we are in Victoria.   We arrived in Vancouver this morning at 9:00.   Our train ride from Jasper was a bit of a disappointment.  Not the train ride, but the views.   It was so cloudy, foggy, and rainy that we could hardly tell we were in the mountains!   Can't do much about the weather when you are traveling, so we made the best of it and had fun on the train anyway.   We got to the Helm's Inn here in Victoria after rides on the Skytrain, bus, ferry, and bus.   Only took 7 hours!   It was surely worth the trip.   The Helm's is wonderful.   We dropped our bags off and then headed to the nearby grocery store.   You can see we enjoyed beer and pizza as we watched the Badgers play  Nebraska.   Yea, Bucky!   Even scurried out during halftime to get the picture below.   It is one of legislative buildings right down on the inner harbor here in Victoria.   What a beautiful city!   We will have a good weather day tomorrow, so we plan to make the best use of our time that we can.  We will surely have some great things to share tomorrow.   Bob thinks life is pretty good right now.   He was able to follow the Brewers victory online as we cruised on the ferry today, he is enjoying the Badgers romp over Nebraska right now, and just checked the paper to make sure we can catch the Packers tomorrow.   Doesn't get any better than this-traveling and Wisconsin sports combined.

Good night to everyone back home.  

Bob and Deb