Day: July 2, 2019

Capilano and VanDusen

The next morning we slept in and then drove to join Clark and Swathi’s crew at Capilano suspension bridge. After the bridge there are a whole lot of walkways and staircases built into the rain forest, and it’s all very impressive.

After this stop, we went downtown for some Thai food for lunch. After lunch we headed next door to a Korean shaved ice house for incredible shaved ice. The red bean was my favorite.

Then we went to VanDusen Botanical Gardens. I liked them even more than Butchart because there weren’t so many people. They were incredible.

Abe and I both meditated on this bench while Ammon slept on us. It was wonderful to be by a willow tree on the edge of a pond. The sound of its leaves trailing the water, the soft wind, the sunlight on green everywhere–it was magical.

Abe took this picture of Ammon and me on the peaceful bench.

The giant rhubarb plant! Abe was wowed.
Mary and Clarissa in the maze
I really wish this were a picture of just the maze, but we don’t have one of those. The maze was so awesome! Except, of course, for the minute that I thought I’d lost Ammon in it…
The giant chair in the middle of the vegetable garden. It felt very Alice in Wonderland.
That bark is natural!!!! My first thought was that it’s straight out of Game of Thrones and somebody must have gotten carried away carving the trunk…but those eyes are just the way the tree grows. Isn’t that insane?!

I am completely aghast that we did not take more pictures. The purple delphinium garden was mind blowing and we don’t have one picture! I think maybe I didn’t have my phone to take pictures and Abe was busy wrangling Clarissa most of the time. I don’t know, but I adored these gardens and feel sad we don’t have more pictures of just the plants. Oh, well. Guess we’ll just have to go back some time!!