Dim Sum

Today I met with Kathy, my coworker, and Robert, a friend of hers, in order to eat some chinese lunch. We ate 'Dim Sum',  an array of Cantonese style snacks, at the 'Don Mee Restaurant' in China Town. The food was quite good, we tried a lot of different dishes like ribs, spring rolls, rice with chicken, preserved egg congee (rice soup), egg tart and more. It was all quite tasty and the way they served the food was quite unique: Instead of ordering your dishes, you could just choose any dish from a trolley cart brought by your table by a waitress. So you could actually see your food before choosing it - although seeing your food didn't guarantee that you actually knew what kind of food you had chosen.
After we finished eating, we decided to walk to Beacon Hill Park. As we walked past one of the little statues of hands that I had found earlier, I told Robert and Kathy about them. They were intrigued and I ended up showing 8 of those statues to Kathy and Robert on the way to the park. Even though both of them have been living in Victoria a lot longer than me, they hadn't known about the hands before. As I was showing them around most of the time, they joked that I should become a tour guide.
We also had a really nice time at the park, Robert was telling us a bit about the local trees. You can find a lot of Garry Oak trees which preferably grow in dry areas in the Beacon Hill park.

As I still wanted to relax a bit at home before working the late shift again, we took a bus back to Downtown around 3 PM. I bought some milk and a few raspberries at the local grocery store before taking another bus to bring me straight home. As I arrived around 4 PM, I still had about two hours to relax and eat some dinner before I had to leave again for work.