We started by walking through Chinatown. As we passed a few of the 'hands of time' on our way, I told Iris about them and we decided to try and find all of them (or rather just take pictures of all of them since I already knew their exact locations). Thus, we ended up walking along the harbour in the direction of Beacon Hill Park.
After we found the statue of a hand located in Beacon Hill Park, I wanted to show Iris my favourite little beach, which was located South of the park. While walking down the stairs to that beach, I slipped and hurt my arm a little bit by holding on to the handrail, which was just a bit annoying so I mostly ignored it. Even though it was still raining, the rather remote beach was really impressive.
We still saw and took pictures of a lot of squirrels and ducks on the way back through the park. By the time we arrived in Downtown Victoria, it had more or less stopped raining and I was showing Iris the gift store where I had worked.
As it was already 2 PM, we decided to go to the Bay Centre to have some lunch. As poutine was the most Canadian dish I knew, we decided to have some for lunch. Just like me, Iris felt like poutine tasted a lot better than it looked (which really isn't that hard considering that it looked gross). Afterwards, I really felt like eating some ice cream so we went to a nearby ice cream shop where we both had a cone of ice cream with two flavours and a lot of toppings (like strawberries, brownies and coconot macaroons).
Next, we decided to take advantage of the good weather and walked to the hand furthest away from Downtown Victoria. To do that, we had to cross the bridge to Esquimalt and then walk along the harbour shore for a while, which offered really nice views of the harbour. The hand we found at the end of our walk was the 11th statue of the 12 statues of hands in the set. As the weather was still really nice and the sky was starting to look more beautiful every minute, we decided to do another short trip.
While Iris and I were chatting about our plan for tomorrow, it became obvious that I wasn't really used to long conversations in German anymore and that I had started to mix up a lot of German and English words - the best example being 'Leuchthaus' instead of 'Leuchtturm' (German) or 'Lighthouse' (English).
We took a bus to the University and there, I walked with Iris through Mystic Vale. Just like me, she loved this huge forest right next to the University of Victoria.
On the way back to the hostel, we stopped at Save on foods so that Iris could buy some snacks. I helped her bring her bags back to the hostel. After arriving there, the two of us still played some 'Pokemon Go' before I left in order to give Iris a chance to get some more sleep.
Back at home, I took a shower and then watched some 'Suits' and 'Better Things' with Katrina.
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