{"id":21456,"date":"2009-01-19T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=800"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:09:08","slug":"stanley-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/stanley-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Park\">Stanley Park<\/a> is located at the northern tip of the city of Vancouver. It is the largest city-operated park in Canada and the third largest in all of North America. \u00a0It is a 1,000 acre (405 hectare) urban oasis and the only thing I&#8217;ve always known I&#8217;d want to see if I ever made it to Vancouver. Among its many attractions are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seestanleypark.com\/totems\/page6totems.htm\">totem poles<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanaqua.org\/home\/\">Vancouver Aquarium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the weather&#8217;s been improving and been alternating between sun and fog, so I decided that today was going to be The Day. I was going to brave Vancouver and visit Stanley Park!<\/p>\n<p>First decision to make was how to get there. I really wanted to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.translink.bc.ca\/Transportation_Services\/SkyTrain\/\">Skytrain<\/a>, but Stanley Park is huge and its shuttle doesn&#8217;t run in the winter. If I wanted to see anything, I&#8217;d have to go by car.<\/p>\n<p>The drive wasn&#8217;t that bad, actually (thanks, Majel!), and I had a lovely morning in this beautiful park. I&#8217;m going to go back on a nicer day so I can get some proper shots of the city. The fog over the ocean was really thick this morning!<\/p>\n<p>The aquarium was okay. I had a nice time and saw some cool things but I&#8217;ve been spoiled by some of the best aquariums our continent has to offer, so it takes a lot to wow me now when I visit such a facility. I think that what I will remember most about the Vancouver Aquarium is the beluga whales!<\/p>\n<p>The most memorable moment of the day was when I came across a couple arguing in Mandarin about what they were seeing in the fog:<\/p>\n<p>Lady: Shi Lionsgate Bridge! (It&#8217;s the Lionsgate Bridge!)<\/p>\n<p>Man: Bu shi Lionsgate Bridge! (It&#8217;s NOT the Lionsgate Bridge!)<\/p>\n<p>Back and forth for a whole minute until I had enough and exclaimed: &#8220;SHI Lionsgate!&#8221; Then, off their stunned gaze &#8220;Wode hanyu pu xin.&#8221; (My Chinese sucks)\u00a0Whodathunk my 15 weeks of Mandarin lessons back in 1997 would come in handy one day? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Please check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/stanleypark\/stanleypark.html\">Stanley Park page<\/a> for pictures. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World famous Stanley Park is located at the northern tip of the city of Vancouver. It is the largest city-operated park in Canada and the third largest in all of North America. \u00a0It is a 1,000 acre (405 hectare) urban oasis and the only thing I&#8217;ve always known I&#8217;d want to see if I ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,5,1375,3,759],"tags":[791,624,802,707],"class_list":["post-21456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel","category-vancouver","tag-aquariumszoosbotanicalgardens","tag-lighthouses","tag-parksgardens","tag-statuesmonuments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}