Stanley Park Vancouver

On Easter Saturday - it started to rain a lil bit. Vancouver apparently is famous for its rain! But as per a brochure we read - the April rain is responsible for May flowers! Vancouver is a lot different to Calgary, when it comes to greenery. As Calgary gets sooooo cold and continuously had snow - it makes it hard for plants to grow. Whereas Vancouver has minimal snow and a lot of rain - but has flowers and green green grass everywhere - the colours awaken the senses!

So we decided to battle the little bit of rain and walk around the waterfront to Stanley Park and get a horse drawn carriage ride! The park is over 1,000 acres and is 10% larger than NY's famous Central Park. The park is surrounded by a 9km seawall, which lots of people cycle around, walk/run/rollerblade around. We caught a glimpse of a few of the parks attractions:

- statue of Robert Burns - the national poet of Scotland, who penned Auld Lang Syne
- totem poles (Shan is in this picture)
- statue of "girl in wetsuit", the statue is a "copy" of the "little mermaid" statue in Denmark and is of a birl in a wetsuit, sitting very mermaid like on a boulder, which gets slightly covered by the ocean, depending on the tide

http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/stanley/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Park