Just as we were all freshly showered, fully packed and ready to head out to grab breakfast from the lobby on the way to the ferry, Cooper threw up everywhere (well, all over him and I both). After very quick showers and changing again, I was saddened to see the dirty laundry bag nearly full again after getting it all done yesterday for the trip home. We are now on the ferry about half way and are sitting inside as it is very chilly outside and none of us have any coats. Brooke and Cooper are playing on James' Iphone. I think we will come back in two years time to see my family again and maybe take the afternoon tea at the Empress :). In regards to our hotel: our room was small, but clean, and we were walking distance to my grandfather, a mall, and a Boston Pizza and it had guest laundry and a continental breakfast. The only negatives were that the wireless was very touchy and the signal weak on our room and not enough seating in the breakfast room. We would definetely stay at this Super 8 again and the price was great for Victoria, at 98$ a night plus tax. The ferry ride was not too enjoyable this crossing as it was rocking quite badly. One young lady was so seasick from the rocking she had to go lay out on the deck not caring what anyone thought (been there). We are now driving back through Washington on our way to an Olive Garden for lunch and then peek in the Target near it for that elusive white waffle shower curtain. Cooper is sound asleep in the back. Just pulling put after a nice walk through Target to stretch our legs and have hit heavy traffic. It is horrible. I did, however, finally get that shower curtain, except it is not a true waffle pattern which has left a lingering bit of shoppers remorse for caving in and buying it. I also picked up "Eat, Pray, Love" to read once we get home. Besides i had a little bit of extra money to spend there as i severely undertipped our waiter at lunch after he came back to complain about two Canadian pennies that had accidentally made it into our bill payment, and to ask for two American ones instead. We are tempted to pull out of this traffic and head for the nearest hotel and we would if we did not already have non refundable reservations at the Best Western two hours away (that would be two hours of driving and not two hours of sitting on traffic). I must admit we have been very lucky with traffic, as this is our only our second to time doing this on the whole trip......please be our last. Thankfully, three of us are filled up with soup, salad, and breadsticks (love you Olive Garden) and we have air conditioning and lots of movies :). Poor Cooper refused to eat anything as he is still feeling miserable. Phew! Lucky for us the traffic was due to a bottleneck of merging lanes and now we are hurtling along again. Cooper is showing signs of distress and I have wisely moved everything away that was in his vicinity. We finally made it to our hotel and I went ahead to open the room for us. I went back to open the door to our room and as I peek out to check progress I veer back in the room quickly to avoid a head on collision with James who was charging full speed into our room carrying Cooper who was throwing up....again. Lucky me got to go take up the squat position down the hall and scrub the carpet clean. Poor thing actually thinks he still gets to go swimming :). James is grabbing him a Popsicle from the Safeway beside us and then he and Brooke will go for a dip in the very nice looking pool. Today has felt so long because we caught the late ferry, but there was no way we wanted to get the only earlier one at 6:30am, even more so because you have to be an hour early. No wireless here, except in the lobby, but they have Internet connections on the rooms so we can use the laptop. Best room yet of any hotel we have stayed it.