Kew Gardens

Yesterday we had a relaxing day at Jane and Steve's and Jane cooked a wonderful Sunday dinner for everyone.  There was a good number of counsins, significant others, uncles, and aunts and after dinner we dropped in Ruth and Phils to see everyone over there as well.

Today we got up at a decent time and then did some laundry and the like.  We headed off to Kew Gardens (which is just outside of London, actually very close to the airport ;) around 1pm.  We had no trouble finding it and got excellant (and free) parking as well :)  Here are some photos from our afternoon - we spent from about 2-6pm there and saw a godo amount of the gardens.  I think it is around 300 acres so it is hard to tackle all in one go ;)

From the butterfly room

Enormous Lily pads

Geoff and Sam :)

Big greenhouse with Palms in it

Pagoda in the distance

Kelley with Sam

I loved this bridge :)

This bench was under and in a tree - it was really neat and perfectly shady :)