The Botanical Gardens

Today we mosied over to the Botanical Gardens, which was quite a treat. Acre after acre of exotic plants were all around, and suprisingly the weather cooperated. The sun came peeking out after lunch! The wind had died down and it turned out to be a lovely day.

The most beautiful part was the rose garden....a little boy was following a duck all around the little winding paths. He was so cute with his blonde curls trying to catch up with that duck. I believe the duck was enjoying it as well. It was as if he were being walked. In the pond a baby duck was zooming around and I managed to get one picture that wasn't too blurry. He was really scooting across the water!

So summary of Botanical Gardens is (1) Lovely flowers and (2) Cute Duckies.

On a different route down to the city, through yet another park (so much green space) I discovered a cemetary. Now this is fascinating stuff! It was such a serene walk down, coupled with my macabre desire to read every headstone. It seems that everyone died young, and there were many bad years in the 1800's. Ironically, I found out that if you walk up that very hill just after dark with a flashlight to the main garden, you can see glow worms. This is another fun thing to do!

So in summary, if you walk uphill through a graveyard after dark with a torch, you can find glow worms. No I did not make this up....Only in New Zealand!

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