Photos:
1. Sun Yat Sen Gardens
2. View from our room at Fairmont Waterfront
It is now 2 days since we were introduced to Vancouver.
When we entered our room we encountered a window with a spectacular view. A view of Canada place, the water, Stanley Park, the bridge and the mountains climbing into the distance.
We have watched with fascination as boats go by, seaplanes take off and the light changes from day to night and back again. Oh, we have ventured out into Vancouver and moved around by foot and trolley bus finding our Vancouver.
However, the window seems to define our 3-day stay. An opportunity to glimpse into Vancouver and catch a sight of what is there, and what we have seen is beautiful.
The window was reinforced as we toured the Sun Yat Sen gardens in Chinatown yesterday. The windows gave unique views into the gardens and into deeper things.
Mind you my business of the past 2.5 decades has been visible. Debates about putting dangerous criminals in minimum security prisons, exporting drug dealers east to their home town to face outstanding charges (and thus curtailing the leadership of a promising drug ring) and the problems encountered by a city church as it sandwich and soup service encounters the modern health bureaucracy.
