Day 2 - Victoria, BC
The thing I loved most about this itinerary is how long we had in port each day since they are so close together.
We started our day as usual with breakfast in the International Café. I then headed out for the 2.5 km walk to go and pick up our rental car for the day. I am really glad that I headed out early as I was treated to a beautiful sunrise.
I really enjoyed the walk, the weather was nice in the fall colours were so pretty. I went by the legislative building and the port with some of the ferries.
I picked up the rental and headed back to Port to pick up B. From there we headed north out of Victoria we’re taking the opportunity to go and have lunch with my aunt, she lives about one hour away from Victoria. We enjoyed the drive so much and I’m kicking myself that we didn’t make more stops along the way. We’ll have to make sure we stop more next time.
We had a lovely lunch and visit. Also got to catch up with one of my cousins. I really enjoyed the afternoon. We headed out around 2 PM to head back to the ship, we also had to have the rental car back by 4 PM. We did also have to make a quick stop at Costco so we could look for a new suitcase since hers had broke on the way here and I filled up the rental with gas.
Well, waiting for her. I opened Facebook and saw on the crown Princess page that they had made the decision to cancel Astoria. I was sad but also understood. Luckily we had visited the area in 2019.
We got the car returned, and the guy behind the desk told us he called us a taxi, but I never heard him speak to anyone on the phone. We stood outside and waited for about 20 minutes. It had started to rain and it was getting quite cold. I finally gave up on waiting and we decided to walk over to the Fairmont hotel and caught a taxi right away back to Port.
Back on the ship and out of our wet clothes, we got ready for dinner and went for a drink again we had a great dinner with a great table mates in the main dining room. I don’t really remember what we did after dinner so it must’ve been really exciting lol