Lord Stanley Park

When you first walk into Stanley Park, you see a statue of Lord Stanley checking to see if it's raining.

This is, of course, if you enter Stanley Park at the entrance near the statue. If you enter somewhere else, you'll just see some trees and maybe a raccoon that's been fed by tourists so often that they'll just walk up to you with their tiny little hands out and follow you for half an hour. The homeless in Vancouver will just sit there and tell you to have a nice day when you walk past, but the raccoons don't take no for an answer.

Anyway, Jen took the kids for a full day in the park, including a visit to the aquarium to see a 10 day old Beluga whale. At least, that's what they told me they did. I haven't seen a single picture of a whale or an otter, so maybe they just sat on the fountain outside our building and drank $12 pints of maple syrup.


The kids have highly advanced balancing skills. It didn't take them very long to do this, either.


At one of the playgrounds in the park they were giving driving lessons to kids. The kids had to pedal these little carts around a course, following directions on street signs and parking correctly. This was apparently much more fun than it sounds. I wasn't there, but I found it hard to believe - it's not like the kids wake up every morning begging me to design and create street signs for them to obey. Anyway, Hughston can't really pedal, so the 7 car was a huge disappointment for the fans.


If you click on the picture above to enlarge it, you'll see that my daughter has plowed over a stop sign.

Women drivers! Am I right?


After a long day, it wasn't hard to get the kids to sleep.