Night of 2007 Lights -- Lantern Festival

I went to the Lantern Festival in Deer Lake Park with a friend last night. This is the first time I joined Lantern Festival in Vancouver. It is really fun!

When we got there, the drum circle already started. Too bad, I had a workshop to attend during the daytime so we missed part of the festival.

But luckily we had chance to see the beautiful sunset on top of Deer Lake. It is breath taking!

There is a very large lantern labyrinth with lots of people having fun inside.

And there is shadow puppet show as well. This is the first time I see this preformed. It is amazing!

We walked around to look at different lanterns before we sat down and chatted while we watching the procession going around us along with the drumbeats. It is a very cool night. One lady came by gave us a candle because she said it is lantern festival, every body should have a lantern. Most of the people, especially kids, have lanterns with them. It reminds me the moon festival in China when I was a little girl.


The most wonderful part of the night is the fireshow. I saw fireshow a few times before, but this one is the most amazing one and involved the most performers.

I really enjoyed the night!

BC Parkway Trail

On last Sunday, I went for a really long walk along the BC Parkway Trail under the Skytrain line. The BC Parkway is an existing pedestrian and cycle path that roughly parallels the Expo SkyTrain line from Vancouver's Clark Drive area through Burnaby to New Westminster. We started around 10:45am at VCC Clark Station and ended around 5pm at the New West Quay.

The trail

Now my feet still feel sore, but the scenery we saw along the trail makes the long walk under the sun worthy it. The trail is along the skytrain track as long as a old railway.

Skytrain Track and old railway

A specially decornated house beside the trail

I'm so proud of myself to be able to make it all the way the end of the trail. The first time I tried this trail last year, I gave up at metrotown in Burnaby. But this time I finally made it!

Arrive New West

It was so hot walking on a big part of the trail where is not shady. But I have to enjoy the nice sunny summer days since it won't last too long.

Filming Motorcyclists on the bridge in New West

New residental area near New West Quay

And the tasting of black berries is another thing to be remembered and the Gelato at the end of the walk at the New West Quay.

Black Berries

New West Quay

Walk on the Lions Gate Bridge

During the Labor Day long weekends, I went for a walk from Vancouver downtown Coal Harbour, to the Stanley Park Seawall and then cross the Lions Gate Bridge to North Van.

The walk in Stanley Park is great.

And the scenery on the bridge is awesome.