VanDusen Gardens
Posted by Kelly Adams on June 11th, 2006 
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Irene and I met my friend Chris, his girlfriend Billie, his Mom, his brother Rick, and two of his Mom’s friends for a walk through VanDusen Gardens.
We had a good time- Irene got her one to two hour walk that her surgeon wants her to get regularly, and I took a bunch of pictures. And we finally got to meet Billie, which I’ve been looking forward to for a while.
It was a good day- the weather held up well, and the gardens were quiet. We had a brunch/lunch sort of thing at the Shaughnessy restaurant at the gardens. That started out interestingly- the reaction from the restaurant staff when eight of us showed up without reservations was somewhat comical (”Oh my god, walk-ins!”). One of them actually came back to lecture us on how we shouldn’t arrive with such a large group without reservations…okay, gotcha. Make the customer feel small- that’s good customer service. But the meal was good, so I shouldn’t complain too much, I suppose, and the folks that actually served us at our table were nice.
August 9th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
[…] Back in the olden days (June, 2006), my best friend Chris came out to the coast for a vacation. We visited, and I posted some pictures from one day of the time he was here. […]