Botanical Gardens and "The Turf"

England's been a bit uneventful lately, since we are all adjusting to the weather, the living conditions, and basically pretending like our world hasn't just been turned upside down. But yesterday I took an excursion to the Magdalen Botanical Gardens that are basically in the backyard of our house here.

The garden is beautiful, and full of flowers and plants from all over the place. I went walking around with my friend Shana and my roommate Juliana. It's not a very big place, but you can tell that the gardeners here are proud of all the neat plants they grow. My favorites were venus fly traps, the "palm tree" greenhouse, and the cocoa plant.

Later in the evening, my friends and I went out to icecream (I got Kenyan Coffee...delicious) and then to a pub called "The Turf" which is apparently where Bill Clinton "did not inhale" during his time here as a Rhodes Scholar.
It was a pretty happening place, although the ceilings inside were about 6' and I totally didn't fit. The Turf is really old and has all these funny posters around making puns about alcohol and kegs. The types of "blokes" hanging out there ranged from 60 year old men (when they passed by our table, Shana exclaimed "Has Parliament just been let out?") to young hip kids that were apprently our age. I ordered my first legal beer (Stella Artois) and sat in the rain with my housemates laughing loud like typical Americans, before we called it a night.