A Beautiful Autumn Day in Kew Gardens

The theme of this album is red, orange, and yellow for Fall!

The Gardens hold over 14,000 trees spread over 326 acres, and we decided to wander through the Winter Wonderland area to see all the different Christmas trees!

Butterflies in the Princess of Wales Conservatory

He wasn't too cooperative to get his photo taken, but I finally got a good photo of him!

Inside the Orchid House

Cacti like in Texas! Now I feel more at home. I don't believe I've ever written the word "cacti" before...

The Palm House

We went into the Palm House mainly to get to the Waterlily House, and as it is set to Tropical Rainforest climate and we were in our clothes dressed to walk around in 45 degree weather, we couldn't stay in there too long...

Inside the Waterlily House with the biggest lily pads I've ever seen!

The Temperate House which I thought was pretty boring.

The Xstrata Treetop Walkway that gets you 18 meters above the ground (no I don't know how many feet that is).

Just saw this guy roaming around trying to eat some berries!!

The Pagoda

What's better to end a great Autumns day than a jug of Mai Tai's with my new friend Lauren in Clapham Common? It even carried on the color theme of the day!

So we spent about 4 hours roaming around the Gardens, and only made it about halfway through (granted we ate lunch, stopped for hot tea, and went into the giftshop-well two of those). The weather said it would be a completely sunny day, but of course, they were wrong as usual, and right as we decided to leave around 4 or so, it started pouring on us. Despite the rain, it was a perfect, very brisk Autumn Day roaming around the gardens!

Tube Engineering Works, Buses Only-Clapham Junction

Loved the old cameras and ceramics!

A teeny tiny sewing mahcine and foot pedal?

So this weekend, the tube is closed for engineering works. This means that if I want to go anywhere, I have to walk or use the buses. The buses are confusing, but I know a few routes, so I took one to Clapham Junction to walk down Northcote St. which seemed to have some cute shops (from my view on the bus). I found some cool antique shops, but nothing that really appealed to me. As the rain was holding off, I decided to walk the 45 minutes back to Bob's through Clapham Common, only stopping a few times to watch thedirection the G1 bus was taking back to the Common.