Dr Sun Yat-Sen gardens
Author: Jared
One of the things about being home with newborn (or in our case, newly arrived home, as they were born 11 weeks ago but only came home last week) is that it’s hard to get out of the house. We managed to get out of the house the other day for the twins very first adventure out in the real world, and we took them to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, which happen to be just up the street from us and quite a nice walk.
These gardens are one of the little not-so secrets of Vancouver. There is a free section of these walled gardens, then there is the main part itself, which you have to pay cash to get into. Needless to say that I’ve only ever been into the free section but for me this part is great to get away from the city a little and just check out gardens from another culture. There are turtles (tortoises) and GIANT goldfish (carp?) flitting in between the lilys which flower if you’re there at the right time of the year. A pagoda occupies the center of the gardens, but there are various gravelled strolls throughout the garden where you can check out the abundance of flora… just watch out for the tourists…
Roaming the garden paths
Token shot of the boys 
Ohh, look at the cute little goldfish...
AAAAGH, the Zombie Carp are swarming!
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