Every year I like to take my daughter to the Botanical Gardens and the
Chinese Lanterns. There is always a story, and the lanterns are always glorious. Normally we go in October and visit the rows and rows of decorated pumpkins, and run the obstacle course that they set up near the entrance. This year we had more time than usual, and we wandered further than we had ever wandered before. We played some of the games in the pumpkin patch, but never did go back inside to see the jack-o-lanterns. We did find a mildly disappointing Odyssey, but it lead us to the coolest installation of animal and bird habitats, human sized!
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| Bears hibernate in small spaces |
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| Moth cocoon |
Entrance to this year's Chinese Garden of Lights
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| Snake and Tortoise (not a sign of the zodiac) |
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| Ox or dragon? |
This year the story is the myth of
He Luo Yu, a fish with ten bodies that transforms into a bird to escape the fisherman's nets. As usual, the preceding year was spend in designing and transforming the Chinese garden into a glowing delight. It is a thing of beauty, and is best seen in the day and then again in the night!
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| The centrepiece, He Luo Yu, with the ten-bodied fish metamorphosing into a bird. |
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| Cute crabs |
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