Butchart Gardens To celebrate our three years of marriage together, we took a weekend trip to Victoria BC Canada via the Victoria Clipper ferry . Leaving on the Victoria Clipper ferry Welcome to Victoria BC Canada We started our adventure in Victoria with a city tour bus ride to the Butchart gardens . We were both pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed the tour aspect of the drive where we learned about this history of Victoria. We learned that Butchart gardens used to be a limestone quarry and that the owners of the quarry, the Butchart family, decided to transform it into a garden after the limestone was depleted. Jennie Butchart herself actually planted a lot of the ivy found alongside the once quarry walls. Saturday evening we ate at Pagliacci’s restaurant. We got there just before a few large parties and were seated right away. The food was delicious. After dinner we had planned to do the Ghost Tour , but due to the heavy rain we decided to see th...