Day at the park

Parents seem to be adjusting well to the different timezone and slept pretty much until the morning. I had made my poppy seed cakes yesterday - because some recipies said it would be better next day - and we enjoyed them for breakfast, and the rest with the afternoon tea. The were pretty much spot on how I wanted them, but I just realised I forgot to take photos of them... which is a shame as I just got these new little cake molds that are just the cutest - well, another time then.

Meanwhile, enjoy the photos taken in the park today. On your left is a starfish - we noticed a young seagull eating something strange, and after it had left this not so appetising looking morsel we went to have a look. We didn't think it was alive - at least it didn't show any signs of life (life as we know it anyway) so we left it as it was. When we were leaving the young seagull came back with another starfish and tried to swallow it - of course with little success, and we left it standing there looking quite stupid with one starfish arm in it's throat and four pointing out. Silly thing, if you can't eat the starfish, stop trying!

The other photo on your right is from Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, with some turtles basking in the sun. I'm not sure if they are indigenous to the area of it they are runaways (I'd suspect the latter), but they seemed to enjoy the weather as much as we did.

Before leaving home we were thinking about if we should take the bird book with us - but I assured that I "knew all the birds in the area anyway", and the book is quite heavy. Turned out they had changed all the birds since I'd been there last time, and we had to try to remember all the characteristics until we got home. My favourites were probably the woodpeckers that we saw in the forest - they seemed to be quite used to people and didn't mind us coming quite close.

Have I told you that this is one of the things I enjoy about Vancouver?