We went up to the Huntington Library over the weekend. Mainly we went up to see the new Chinese Garden, 流芳园。Work on the Chinese Garden is still ongoing, but what they have so far is certainly very nice, and when it is all done, it should be spectacular.
My main regret was that they didn't serve wine at the snack shop, then we could all hang out by the edge of the lake drinking, composing couplets, and practicing our calligraphy. If they don't want to serve wine, at least they could sell 二锅头 like the refreshment stands at Beihai Park, just the thing you need to take the edge off of your morning.
We also spent some time at the Japanese Garden and the Desert Garden.
The weather wasn't too cooperative. It was cloudy much of the day. The sun broke through occasionally. Fortunately it held of raining until we were leaving.
I had our new Garmin ETrex Vista HcX with us and it performed extremely well. Check out the Smugmug map view. I had the GPS in my pocket most of the day, yet it never lost a signal, even when there was tree cover. This is a HUGE improvement on the Garmin 70cs that I used to use. That had a habit of losing the satellite signal if you looked at it funny.
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