more tourist shilling

One of the attractions that draws tons of tourists here is Butchart Gardens. I remember my parents telling me that on one of their trips to England they spotted a big billboard advertising the place at Picadilly Circus.

We don't go too often because it's expensive, but three weeks ago we did the saturday night fireworks. I found out it was the busiest day of the year--the weather was amazing, so no doubt that helped. Never dropped below mid 70s all night and no mosquitos. They get 1.3 million visitors a year--probably more from the U.S. than anywhere else--and there were probably over 20,000 visitors that saturday.

Here's some random entertainment that you see while you're wandering. The little guy dancing is our nephew.



Interestingly, the guy on the left in the band is an employee who also works on the weekly fireworks show, which happened a couple hours after that previous clip:



I think it's a better show than the summer evening fireworks at Disneyland.

Here are a few more pics from that day: