Friday 12 August, 2005

Frogs and tea in Chinatown

Frog and a water lilyI'm having a day off today to entertain the guests, and they wanted to see Chinatown so off we went. Another gorgeous day in Vancouver, which wasn't so nice for poor Harro who seems to burn with a mere thought of going out, but nice for me and Laura who love warm weather. Chinatown was as busy and entertaining as ever, and we wondered around - bought some tea from my favourite tea shop in Chinatown, Treasure-Green Tea co, and watched frogs in Dr. Yun Sat Sen garden and had lunch at Hon's.

I love Chinatown, I could spend ages just lazying about and browsing there. If you want to buy something it won't break your bank, for example today I picked up a deck of Mah Jong cards (rules are the same as with tiles - only you don't build a wall but shuffle the deck) for few dollars. I think I could spend hours just in T&T, the funky supermarket.

Today we managed to spend our time exactly so that every time we had some time so that we could have gone for the guided tour in Dr. Yun Sat Sen historical garden, the tour had just started or was about to start so that we wouldn't make it. So the youngsters will probably come back some other day to do the tour which is a must if you want to see the garden - for now we just briefly visited the public garden which is nice too, and watched frogs sitting on the water lily leaves.

Posted by kolibri at 12 August 16:54, 2005
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