The Norfwest / Soufwest Clowder
Victoria B.C.
July 2005
-- by Talisker Pippin
One day in July 2005, Auntie Renee (of the Renegades) came from Texas to Seattle on vacation. She stayed at the Inn at Queen Anne hotel.
It was her birthday, so she and mymom taked the Victoria Clipper to Victoria BC to visit Auntie Melinda and Unca John and the Royal Roads Greenhouse Kitties and Auntie Diane and Ember. It was a beautiful summer day.
They went through the Royal Roads University gardens where Unca John is the gardener. They saw water and trees and flowers and kitties and peahens and chicks and in the university museum they even saw a picture of Unca John playing rugby a long time ago.
Tom isn't sure about this!
Our furs match!
Royal Roads gardens
The Italian garden
Tranquility
John, Renee, and Melinda down the wooded path
Emma
Peahen (more popular with visitors than with the gardeners)
Days of rugby glory
Renee, Melinda and John on castle steps
Then they went to Ember's house, where Auntie Diane fixed them lunch. It was real exciting because Auntie Renee got locked inna hoomin litterbox room and Auntie Diane and Unca John hadda figger out how to get the door unlocked. It was a advenchur. (Auntie Renee said it was a real nice litterbox room and had pretty paint onna walls, but she didn't want to spend her whole birthday there. As somekitties said, hoomins should just leave doors open and then this wouldn't happen!)
Ember and Diane
Ember gets kist!
Melinda, Diane, Renee
in front of Ember's house
Sherry, Melinda and Renee in Ember's courtyard
After lunch, the Aunties went looking for shoppurrtunities. They went to the Royal BC Museum and bought all sorts of sooven-ears. They went to Chinatown and walked down Fan Tan Alley wif lots of mysterious little shops. They went to a street market and mymom bought a silver and lapis lazuli goddess to wear around her neck. They went to bookstores and teashops and bought books and tea and postcards.
Totem poles inside the
Royal BC Museum
Down Fan Tan Alley
Shoppurtunities!
Elegant tourist transportation
Sherry in front of the Empress Hotel
Diane and the
Inner Harbor
And they ended up at the Empress Hotel, where they met Unca John and had drinks wif umbrellas in the Bengal Lounge.
Bengal Lounge
Diane
Renee and Diane
The shopped-out Aunties lunge for their drinks
Drinks wif umbrellas!
All the clowderers together
And then Auntie Renee and mymom got back on the boat and went back home to Seattle.
It had been a gudgud clowder. And Auntie Renee brought me a beeyoutiful purpull croshayed blankie that I've been sleeping on every day cuz it's so soft and nice.