Hangzhou Botanical Garden

Every Monday is family date day for the Holmes family.  Mike does not work on Mondays.  On Monday the 14th of March we rode the bus to the Hangzhou  Botanical Gardens.  We had purchased cards that allow us to get into certain parks for free or at a discounted price.  So we were able to get in for free.  The park is huge, we walked a lot.   It didn't help that we got off the bus at the wrong entrance of where we had planned to go.  Not all of the flowers were in bloom, which made some of the park not as pretty as it might be now. We really wanted to the plum blossoms, which were beautiful.  Sariah called it her fairy land.

Here is the first slide I have seen in China.

Unfortunately there was no ladder.

Sariah's fairy land.

Erika was given this balloon by the people in the background.

We had a hard time finding an exit.  I am not sure if the one we took was a real exit. They are reconstructing this area.  We walked along this road to find a bus stop.

Hangzhou doesn't have parks for kids but there are exercise parks.