Bright Nights at Stanley Park

It passed already a few months from my last post. It is Christmas time,the most wonderful time of the year. I would love to spend holidays with my family but could not visit them this time. I hope I can be with them for next Christmas. Christmas in Russia and Canada is celebrated on different dates, January 7 and December 25 accordingly. For me, it is so weird that I should work on my Christmas on January 7. Anyway...Merry Christmas to everybody! :)

We could enjoy beautiful lights at Stanley Park that was open from November 27th to January 4th (except December 25th).In order to see the lights, you just give donation on the entrance.
Also, you have the opportunity to go on the night train around the Stanley Park that cost $11 what we did not do. It must be beautiful. As always, some pictures are below.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

At once I decided to continue to post photos from our trip at the end of March, 2014. We visited a place located in South Dakota with sculptures of  famous faces of US's presidents. There are four faces of following presidents on Mount Rushmore: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. It was a nice weather that day as you see from pics and without snow.

Yellowstone National Park: Mammoth Hot Springs

We were moving back to British Columbia from Ontario and visited on our way a few places in US. One of the interesting places that recently caught attention thousands of people is Yellowstone National Park. Although we were not so lucky with the weather, it was pretty nice to see different colorful formations.

We were there at night on March 29-30. That day in the morning it was earthquake magnitude 4.8 and we were sleeping when it happened. I read that this earthquake was the strongest one since 1980.

The pass ticket to the park costs $25.

I was surprised that many bison walk near buildings in Mammoth Country. It is supposed to be wild animal anyway and I don’t how local people deal with this.  There are also many elks and mule deer. Also we saw bighorn sheep.

In this time of year there are many parts of roads closed at the park and it is understandable. You would see the weather!  The visibility was very bad because of the snow. One of the opened ones was Hot Springs in Mammoth.

There is many discussion about this place lately because of the supervolcano located right there. Especially after some video with running animals that was posted on the internet in the middle of March.  As you can see my photos, animals go nowhere.  If you have some comments related to this topic, please feel free to leave them.