Slept in, of course, because of a latish night and because I'm kinda on holidays. I did some work on my paper in the morning, hoping to get some of it done. I wasn't that productive. I was also starting to feel kinda sick with a headache and plugged nose. I was lucky enough to get chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast because I don't get those at home. But for lunch, we went to Fujiya: my favourite cheap, near-home takeout sushi place. So nice to have fresh fish!!

For the afternoon, we decided to go out to Langford to look at a couple shops out there. The drive out on Metchosin highway is very pretty for a highway. It weaves through the Esquimalt area with the inlets. There's one little strip of green by the highway that it looks like the Victoria bunnies have congregated in. I miss the cute little bunnies at UVic, but it seems weird that they've somehow found a little island in the middle of the highway to multiply.

Out in Langford, we first stopped at a fabric store. My Mum and I had gone looking through old fabrics before we left because she's going to make me a quilt with all the fabrics she still has from clothes she made me when I was little. We were just going to look and see what kind of fabrics they had for backgrounds. We ended up getting a pretty blue flower panel that my Mum wants to try and Marvel fabric that she's going to make into pillows for Zach for a Christmas present.

After the fabric store, we went out to an antique store my parents had found. At least, the top floor was nice antiques, but we were more interested in the basement. The basement was full of, I guess junk is a good word for it, but the better word is probably odds-and-sods. It's all the weird, sometimes useless pieces of things you get from foreclosed houses. There was some really interesting things like stained glass windows, and old doorknobs, but also little gears and metal pieces and transistors and buckets of keys. Sure was interesting to just go look around in.

On the way home we stopped up at Mt. Doug to look at the sunset. It's one of my favourite paces to look at the city. We didn't go all the way to the top, just to the lookout at the parking lot because it was kinda cloudy. But it made the light nice and purple. Went home so I could do a bit more work on my paper, and then sent Dad to get fish and chips. Zach doesn't really care about fish and chips from Naughty Nellies, but I love it, even if it is a little greasy. When on the coast, have fish. After dinner we set up the tree and decorated it. That tree has to be 40 years old I swear. But it's nice to put up a tree because we didn't bother with one at home, unless you count the fairy lights I put on our Rosemary bush. (I then spent a few hours sitting in the living room with tea and an almond tart writing my paper.)