Day of walking

So we spent a great deal of time walking today.  We went to a cool museum that had things from all sorts of different cultures (Roman, Greek, Chinese, Japanese....etc).  Had some cool stuff.  Took pictures of some nice old instruments.

We ate a park behind another museum.  Had a cool little river that we ate by.  Some ducks came over and were begging for some scraps.  We gave them NUTTING!!!

After that, we went to the museum we were by which had quite an assortment of "prehistoric" animals as well as plenty of exotic animals from around the world.  Saw many nice little bits with astronomical numbers for age.......but hey what do you expect?

 

 I like the art they have here.  Instead of random shapes of metal, paint, wire and such, they just put an uprooted tree in the front lawn.  Portland could take a lesson from these English.

Our last event of the day we ate a little pub called the Eagle and the Child.  Now some of you nerds may have heard of this.  It's claim to fame is not that of amazing food.  In fact, our gracious hosts vehemently suggested that we stick to fish and chips.  Back to the point.  What is it's claim to fame?  For about thirty years, there was a specific group of authors that would meet there every week to discuss books.  They called themselves "The Inklings."  This group included both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.  We actually ate at the same table as them!  The aura was so thick that I stabbed at it with my fork and it stuck there momentarily!  So here are a couple few pictures of the table and plaques and us standing here all studly out front.

In one of the museums there was a weapons exhibit.  Scott had never seen little hand canons like this.  They had several barrels.  Twas quite impressive and he wanted to show people that they really do exist outside of the movies.

This was a cool stained glass window in a chapel within one of the colleges.

I leave you with your greedy capitalism and your rude American manners and your right way of driving and your lack of accent and your affordable prices and your big houses and your need for nonconformity ........Scott says I need to stop.  By the way, this is yesterday's

bye