Today began much like yesterday: breakfast at the Imperial College Cafeteria. It’s included with our room after all. Today, however, we didn’t have any solid plans, so we woke up late, ran to get breakfast before they stopped serving it, and headed back to the room to get ready for the day. While Daniel was in the shower, I fell back asleep! And, once I was asleep, I did not want to wake up. I talked him into giving me “5 more minutes”, and then he got occupied taking care of business with emails and arrangements for our housing. The next thing I knew, it was 2:30. (But only 8:30 in Austin, which isn’t so late!!) I felt so much better after sleeping. I realize it’s a pretty lame way to spend a vacation day, but I think I was able to fully enjoy the rest of the day, because I had rested.
And, with the rest of the day, we headed out to get dinner (a.k.a. lunch). We ate at a neat place called Giraffe on High Kensington, and then headed into Hyde Park for a 2 ½ hour walk. It was so awesome! The park is gorgeous, the weather felt like Fall, and the light was amazing in the hours prior to sunset! We even had some dramatic clouds to make for interesting pictures. We stopped to watch some ducks, and they were cracking me up, chasing each other, quacking and splashing! Daniel said he’d heard someone say that ducks were the silliest of God’s creations. Everything about them just makes you want to giggle! The quacking, the way they walk, and particularly one specimen who was turning his whole body perpendicular to put his head in the water to get food – leaving his tail sticking straight up. I should have taken a picture. In addition to the ducks, we saw a pair of swans and their “ducklings”. (I wonder if there’s a special word for a baby swan.) Having never seen baby swans in person before, I couldn’t help but think of “The Ugly Duckling”.
I am already planning for picnics and walks in the park as often as possible! This was my favorite outing so far.
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