Found my dream house!

Thursday 18

I had almost completely finished my nice, long update, and then the stupid thing closes by itself. Grrrrrrrrr.
Breathe in.........
Breathe out..... (don't start, Kavidha :P)

Ok, I'm done. Let's try this again.


We went to Kew Gardens for our Science class... Kim and I were a tad bit late (soso sorry). We forgot it was earlier than the regular classtime. Then the whole class got mixed up and we boarded the wrong train (that line has 3 different routes and we didn't notice, heh). Anyway. When we got out of Kew Garden station, several of us fell in love with the area. I found a couple of houses I now claim as mine lol It's so beautiful there, so quiet, the houses are charming and it's just so....green XD


Once inside the gardens, we set off to the Evolution House, since we needed to go there for our Science class. We went into the wrong building at first -Temperate House- because they were right next to each other and because the Evolution House was...tiny. Anyway, the Temperate greenhouse was full with plants from all over the world, but I kept seeing mostly from Japan and Southeast Asia. I think I missed an entire section, I don't remember the African ones. My camera decided to be difficult, so all my pictures of the flowers there are blurry and useless. Therefore we shall borrow Kim's photos. And speaking of Kim, we found two groups of Japanese students, so for a while we kind of went off wherever they were, just to see if we got any of what they were saying XD coughstalkerscough teehee

The Evolution House was a disappointment. Very simplistic, small and directed to a much younger audience.... which is why Dr. Pohlmann told us to write the essay on the whole trip, not just that one section. Even if it was only a two page essay (double-spaced), it still would've been a pain to try to squeeze that much out of it. That's how bad it was.

After that we went to the Japanese garden section...which again was a little too small for my taste, but at least it was there. Can't have gardens without a Japanese section XD. From there we went off towards the 'Queen's cottage' and the bamboo garden. Not very impressed with the bamboo garden, but by then we were running out of time so we only took a glimpse anyway. We took pictures every five steps, I swear and I even walked slowly *gasp*. The world could've ended, just for that lol.

We ended up missing like half of the gardens, but we were limited in time. That place can only be fully appreciated by spending at least half a day there, strolling and just relaxing. It is one of the most peaceful places I've been in. Loved it.

I picked up a real estate paper...because I'm totally going to have a house here...somehow....someday.... >___< They are ridiculously expensive. Sigh.

They have a store by the train station that has a lot of organic products... kind of like a mini 'whole foods'. I found one item I needed, so I was quite pleased. I'd been worrying I wouldn't be able to find that darned thing. Anyway, I.... hmm I can't remember what we did after we came back from the trip.... I think we just came back to Metrogate and were lazy. I think we might have gone to an used-books store... and you all know what must've happened then XD I'm going to donate some of the books at the end of the trip to Metrogate...or try to sell them back... I don't know, but I certainly can't bring them all back. Just a couple...