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Preston and YaoDan: 2018

Dani really likes Hallowe’en and really enjoys seeing the costumed children at our door. However, last year, YaoYao and I explained to Dani that saying, “I love you” and hugging the children can be inappropriate and upsetting for the parents who are standing by. My wife is such an ingenuous sweety! But this year, Dani was in Vancouver for Hallowe’en. A couple of weeks before Hallowe’en, we visited the Hallowe’en store and Dani had a blast. She play-acted at being the victim of animatronic zombies and screamed in the haunted house for the pure pleasure of feined terror. During the fall, Dani and I also visited the Maritime Museum which is home to the St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America and the second to complete a voyage through the Northwest Passage. Afterwards, we took some time to explore Stanley Park. We harvested the garden which yielded way too many beans, lots of tomatoes, bags of potatoes, onions, cucumbers and more apples than we could possibly use. Next year, my struggle to defeat the Codling moth will be redoubled; this year, my ignorance left the apples open to a major assault, sadly. We twice enjoyed the Richmond Night Festival, and we frequented the rivers looking for spawning salmon.

Twice we went to the Richmond Night Festival, once with YaoYao and Mimi. A hundred or so vendors offer a huge variety of foods and novelty items. The crowd becomes so thick that movement can seem impossible. Still, we enjoyed the treats!