Royal Bottanical Gardens

Last week I was looking for a fun family labour day activity that took advantage of being outside. I found it in the Royal Bottanical Gardens in Burlington.
Len and I thought that maybe we'd get to wander for an hour or so and see a couple of the gardens.
An hour and a half into a thus far picture perfect day we headed out to hike 1.2 km from one garden to another through a marshy area with Adara in the stroller. It was amazing! We got to see all kinds of birds on the way and people gave us seeds to feed to them so that they would come and land on Adara. And they actually did land on her hand.

We saw a muskrat and a hawk and countless chipmunks, cardinals, blue jays and chickadees. Adara got to pet a lot of dogs. The day was sunny and gorgeous and pretty much perfect. To top it all off after three and a half hours of wandering the gardens, Adara was still in great humour. So, we sat at a tea house under a big umbrella as it started to rain and had a lovely lunch and glass of wine while she coloured. Pretty much my ideal and perfect day.
So, what does one do when they find the perfect family outing? Buy a membership of course! Anyone want to join us next time?