We planned to make today an easier day for Mom because she was rather tired from the past two days. She's also been fighting a bit of a cold.
However, we were still up by 6:00 AM and had our breakfast at 6:30. It was promising to be a beautiful day for our little outing to Stanley Park. "We'll come back by lunchtime," we told Mom.
We arrived at the Stanley Park Aquarium by 9:15. It opens at 9:30. We sat beneath this gorgeous cherry blossom tree and couldn't stop taking photos of it.
"Would you like me to take a photo of all of you," said Terry as he walked by. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I love Canadians. I manage to always meet teachers on all our trips.
After taking a photo of us we talked about teaching, places we'd been, etc. Terry is a retired teacher after 34 years, does substitute teaching, is working for the Olympic Games, has a brother who is the grounds keeper for Stanley Park, does a lot of jogging, ETC. After a half hour, it seemed like we'd known him forever. He also asked us if we were Obama supporters. When we gave him an emphatic, YES! he began talking politics with us. Canadians often know more about American politics than Americans. Eventually, we had to say goodbye because the Aquarium had long before opened.
We saw a demonstation of a bald eagle flying and eating.
Here's the culprit that caused some trouble for us. Yes, they did say you could be splashed, but we never expected this little beluga to drench us completely! Art is even having to do laundry for us tonight because we have salt water over all of us.
We ate lunch out in the hot sun so that our clothes would have time to dry, not to mention our hair, shoes, socks, jackets, etc. Good grief!
It was now later than we planned to be out but was having too much fun to return to the hotel.
The totems are like our family crests.
On the way out we caught a glimpse of a beautiful garden. Art had to use a roundabout to go back.
Beautiful cherry trees graced the park.
With each gust of wind we were showered with cherry blossom petals.
Mom said she'd always heard about hana fubuki which means blizzard of flowers, but she'd never actually seen it. She stood there mesmerized and then said, "I can die now. I've seen it all." We assured her that there was still much more to see.
Back at the hotel around 3:30 (ummm...a tad later than we promised), I was glad we brought our multi pronged outlet because we had to use it to charge our cellphone, our rechargeable batteries and laptop computer.
Art has just about finished our laundry now and we're off to dinner.
Guess what? I might be able to see Chuck after all! They have it in Canada... I hope.
However, we were still up by 6:00 AM and had our breakfast at 6:30. It was promising to be a beautiful day for our little outing to Stanley Park. "We'll come back by lunchtime," we told Mom.
We arrived at the Stanley Park Aquarium by 9:15. It opens at 9:30. We sat beneath this gorgeous cherry blossom tree and couldn't stop taking photos of it.
"Would you like me to take a photo of all of you," said Terry as he walked by. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I love Canadians. I manage to always meet teachers on all our trips.
After taking a photo of us we talked about teaching, places we'd been, etc. Terry is a retired teacher after 34 years, does substitute teaching, is working for the Olympic Games, has a brother who is the grounds keeper for Stanley Park, does a lot of jogging, ETC. After a half hour, it seemed like we'd known him forever. He also asked us if we were Obama supporters. When we gave him an emphatic, YES! he began talking politics with us. Canadians often know more about American politics than Americans. Eventually, we had to say goodbye because the Aquarium had long before opened.
We saw a demonstation of a bald eagle flying and eating.
Here's the culprit that caused some trouble for us. Yes, they did say you could be splashed, but we never expected this little beluga to drench us completely! Art is even having to do laundry for us tonight because we have salt water over all of us.
We ate lunch out in the hot sun so that our clothes would have time to dry, not to mention our hair, shoes, socks, jackets, etc. Good grief!
It was now later than we planned to be out but was having too much fun to return to the hotel.
The totems are like our family crests.
On the way out we caught a glimpse of a beautiful garden. Art had to use a roundabout to go back.
Beautiful cherry trees graced the park.
With each gust of wind we were showered with cherry blossom petals.
Mom said she'd always heard about hana fubuki which means blizzard of flowers, but she'd never actually seen it. She stood there mesmerized and then said, "I can die now. I've seen it all." We assured her that there was still much more to see.
Back at the hotel around 3:30 (ummm...a tad later than we promised), I was glad we brought our multi pronged outlet because we had to use it to charge our cellphone, our rechargeable batteries and laptop computer.
Art has just about finished our laundry now and we're off to dinner.
Guess what? I might be able to see Chuck after all! They have it in Canada... I hope.
