Okay the title may be a bit over the top, but in all honesty the trip got off to a rocky start. We left off with our family getting pictures taken by a friend, and we booked the photo time around a ferry, giving us lots of time to make it from pictures to ferry. When we got back from the beach the night before we had an automated message from BC Ferries letting us know that the ferry that we had a reservation on was cancelled due to a ferry breakdown. So we scrambled to make another reservation, and we booked a 12:00pm ferry.
We get the pictures done, hit the road and fly to the terminal. In order for your reservation to be valid you have to be there at least 30 minutes before your sail time. We were 1 minute late. They would not let us on the boat. After I yelled at a bunch of people the best they could do was get us on the 2:00pm ferry to Shwartz Bay, meaning we still had a 2 hour drive once we got to the Island. so we did all of that and pulled up to our 'Resort' at about 6:30pm, tired, hungry, and whiny, and that was just me.
Our room was super expensive and a complete dive (never rent a room without seeing pictures first...mental note, there is a reason they don't put pictures on the website). So we told the boys not to touch anything and started phoning around for alternative sleeping arrangements ( I would have been happy in the van), but the best we could was find something for the next night. So we ate, slept, all woke up with ear aches and runny noses, and got outta dodge ASAP.
We went to the town park (very nice), had lunch, and attempted to check into our SWEET (and I mean sweet, probably the nicest place I have ever stayed) Resort (Tigh-Na-Mara) as early as possible. Our room was available, we unloaded our stuff and hit the beach!
before we hit the park we played a round of mini golf
We get the pictures done, hit the road and fly to the terminal. In order for your reservation to be valid you have to be there at least 30 minutes before your sail time. We were 1 minute late. They would not let us on the boat. After I yelled at a bunch of people the best they could do was get us on the 2:00pm ferry to Shwartz Bay, meaning we still had a 2 hour drive once we got to the Island. so we did all of that and pulled up to our 'Resort' at about 6:30pm, tired, hungry, and whiny, and that was just me.
Our room was super expensive and a complete dive (never rent a room without seeing pictures first...mental note, there is a reason they don't put pictures on the website). So we told the boys not to touch anything and started phoning around for alternative sleeping arrangements ( I would have been happy in the van), but the best we could was find something for the next night. So we ate, slept, all woke up with ear aches and runny noses, and got outta dodge ASAP.
We went to the town park (very nice), had lunch, and attempted to check into our SWEET (and I mean sweet, probably the nicest place I have ever stayed) Resort (Tigh-Na-Mara) as early as possible. Our room was available, we unloaded our stuff and hit the beach!
before we hit the park we played a round of mini golf
my daredevil Tyler on the climbing equipment (I was quite nervous for this one)
JJ trying to be like his big brother, I was so proud of him!
We beached from about 1 - 5, hit the playground which included a bouncy castle, then went back to our room, put both the boys in our 2 person soaker tub, added some sunlight and turned on the jets...they loved it. Then we ordered pizza to the room, had a great family night, and rented an inroom movie (Meet the Robinsons, very good, I highly recommend it!). The boys passed out in the murphy and Kellee and I went and enjoyed the soaker tub. The rest of this story is very X rated, and I mean very!
my two princesses on the beach
JJ trying to be like his big brother, I was so proud of him!We beached from about 1 - 5, hit the playground which included a bouncy castle, then went back to our room, put both the boys in our 2 person soaker tub, added some sunlight and turned on the jets...they loved it. Then we ordered pizza to the room, had a great family night, and rented an inroom movie (Meet the Robinsons, very good, I highly recommend it!). The boys passed out in the murphy and Kellee and I went and enjoyed the soaker tub. The rest of this story is very X rated, and I mean very!my two princesses on the beach
Tyler and dad 'way out' deep in the water
the boys on the bouncy castle
the boys passed out in the murphy bed
The next morning we went back to the beach and the tide was out. It was ridiculously far, it took about 30 minutes to get to where the water was. We saw tonnes of cool stuff, shells, sand dollars, crabs, eagles, geese, jelly fish. When we got back to our room we packed up, hit some retarded little shopping village and then drove to Victoria to enjoy some ice cream, government buildings and the 9pm ferry.
us with the tide out. the houses you can see is how far we have to walk
the jelly fish we found
Kellee and JJ on a horse in Coombs Village
Tyler and Kellee on the same horse
It was the best holiday I have ever had.
Emilee being a princess
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