End of Trinity: Family Visit

A couple days after Geoff, my parents and Alex arrived in Oxford. It was especially exciting to see Alex after his crazy travel plans. He was flying from Tennessee to Newark and Newark to London...unfortunately his passport was in Nyack. With Geoff and my help, we managed to help Abe find Alex's passport and get it to him at Newark Airport so he could get over here. Don't ask me how that worked.

We went to Jamie's Italian:

They had truffle chips. Need I say more?

The next day we went up Saint Mary's Cathedral tower, to get some great views of Oxford.

Wrong way, guys. You need to look over the edge for the view...(duh)




Then I had to go to my last tutorial of Hilary Term. We met in Cafe Nero and chatted about absurd theater, celebration and figurative feasts. It was a good conclusion to our work over the course of the term. Then I went back to the hotel where I was presented with a cake from the cake shop in the Covered Market.

It says Congratulations! It has a graduation hat but since I wasn't graduating, that seemed a little premature. Let's congratulate me on an Oxford term well done, and just being generally awesome. I decided to share the congratulations around.


The next day meant freedom! I was done with my work for term so we rented a car and drove to the Hundred Acre Wood. Not exactly, but it was a big old forest.



Then me and the bros got silly:



In the forest, there was a giant chair. No joke. Pics or it didn't happen? Ok. Here goes.


I'll explain. There was a walk through the woods with a bunch of these sculptures. Only it rained on us and this seemed like the only cool one so we kind of gave up on it. The chair was neat, though.

We got back to Oxford just in time to head over to New College for Evensong.





Evensong was beautiful and sung by a pretty impressive boys choir. After that, we met up with my friends for dinner on Cowley at an Indian restaurant called Aziz.


Charlie wanted to sit next to Momsie so they could catch up.

Understandably, everyone wanted their picture with the Willinghams!


You know we were having fun because we're hot and sweaty and holding alcohol ;)


I can't think of a better way to end Trinity term.