1. Travelling with toddlers requires alcohol.
2. Because of number 1, travelling with toddlers while pregnant is undertaken at your own risk.
3. Seaweed is scarey, starfish are scarey. Goats that eat your clothes and hair are not scarey.
4. Two year olds can learn their way around a new city in 2-3 days, men on the other hand cannot.
5. Victoria is a GREAT city to visit with kids.
6. Massage therapists in BC are not required to be registered, even at overpriced spas such as the Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Empress which renders your reimbursement via Health Spending Account useless in covering the massage that is you paid double the price you would have paid anywhere else.
7. Massages are wonderful, especially the overpriced ones.
8. Do not assume a hotel that cost $300+ per night has air conditioning and a shower that can maintain a consistent temperature. If pregnant and travelling to hot places, always ASK if they have air conditioning, do not assume because we live in a first world civilized country that we would have the basic amenities that one can expect in second world south east asian countries. Never assume.
9. You can pay $60 for a couple of slices of bread with veggies and a mini dessert and some tea and not feel ripped off.
10. It's hard to relax on a boat when you are the mother of a lively toddler.
2 comments:
I fully endorse you rule of travelling with toddlers and the requirement of alcohol. Let me assure you, travelling with pre-schoolers ALSO requires copious amounts of alcohol...
Um, duh? I totally ould have warned you about the WillowStream thing - I was sucked into it in January! And the damn hotel has no A/C - that we learned as well. Best facial ever was there though. Steve spent way more in the spa then I did.
I totally want to take the dictator to Victoria - he would love it.
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