Woke up to wind and cloudy skies. Looks like a storm wants to come to the island.
Larry and Renee made a wonderful breakfast and then we just lazed around for awhile. About noon we decided was a good time to get going. Larry, Renee and Michael went to the Royal BC Museum to check out the IMAX theater and the mastodon exhibit. I opted to stay “home” for my alone time. I also went to the nearby Thrifty Store to get a few things for dinner (as it is my turn to fix something). I was hoping to get some cash but it didn’t happen.
After getting back from the store, I putzed around and cut some vegetables for dinner tonight (pasta with tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and chicken). I also did a couple loads of laundry. Still can’t figure out how we can go through so many clothes. Seems like if we’re on the road or at home, there’s always a ton of laundry that needs doing.
The gang got home around 5 PM and told me about the museum:
Edie dropped us off at the Museum.
The place is huge and the entrance is grand.
All things old are inside. Renee wanted to see the traveling exhibit on the Mastodons and Woolly Mammoths.
It is right next door to the BC Parliament building.
Tickets bought and off to the second floor.
Family tree with elephants at the top center. Pretty much everything else has gone extinct.
Excellent displays.
Very nice representations.
Bronze models at kid height.
The star of the show, named after the herder’s wife that found the baby.
About a month old, she fell into a very sandy river and drowned, was then pickled by bacteria and became a part of the permafrost. All in very short order.
The real deal, about 42,000 years old, near perfectly preserved.
The rest of the display is built around her.
Full grown mastodon.
This made me relive the reading of The Clan of The Cave Bear.
There have been many findings of complete skeletons.
The food supply impacts size.
The elephants smell the bones and remember the loved ones that are gone.
Poachers
I was warm until I walked into this area.
An excellent display.
Mike here. We left the museum and made our way to the IMAX theater and watched about an hour film in 3D. It was totally educational and entertaining. After the film we went back and traveled to the third floor of the museum. We didn’t even come close to seeing half of it. We saw an extensive section on the First Peoples.
Some beautiful work, displayed inside and aging very well.
Really liked the inlay.
Woven arts are there as well.
Artistic detail on combs is beautiful
Very artful people.
Antler and bone art and tools.
Hammers that would wear a fellow out pretty fast.
Great display of fine small carvings with a microscope attachment.
Magnified.
Object.
Magnified.
This pit house reminded me so much of the kivas we saw in Mesa Verde, Colorado.
Almost identical construction materials and methods.
We left and walked the few blocks back to the resort.
Outside.
Past the Legislature we found this explanation of the rock it sat on.
The tracks of a glacier!
Renee found some topiary.
We enjoyed it.
Parrot!
Always beautiful flowers in Victoria. Then we made it back to the Worldmark.
I finished up cooking and we ate. The rest of the evening was spent talking and watching television. That was our day. Hope yours was great!
