Day 3, Oxford, England

Breakfast was one of our favorite parts of the trip! Phillipa treated us in style with a full English breakfast every morning. : )



Bus tour of Oxford! Benjamin was again less than thrilled but it was way to cold and windy to walk. ; )

I will tell you I was confused when we went to Oxford. I didn't realize that Oxford University was the whole town of Oxford and that it consists of tons of smaller colleges. There isn't just one building that is Oxford University.



The picture to the bottom left  is Christ Church College, Oxford. Like Bath, the town of Oxford has beautiful stone architecture. The buildings are just beautiful and much more well built than anything we have here in the States.



We did make a quick stop by Alice's Shop which was inspired by the original Alice In Wonderland. Alice Liddell's father was a dean at Christ Church and that is where she grew up. The author of the book, Lewis Carroll, went on a picnic with Alice and her family and that is where he got the idea for the stories about Alice. The original manuscript is still in the British Library.








To the left is the Radcliffe Camera Library. To the right is another picture of Christ Church. Remember the cafeteria scene in Harry Potter? It takes place in this building! They were currently doing construction on the building so we weren't able to go inside, but we were able to peek in! ; )








The traditional British fish and chips! I could totally eat this more often!








The pictures below are from C.S. Lewis' and J.R.R. Tolkien's favorite hangout--The Eagle and Child. It is such a quant little place with super yummy food. Inside you can actually sit in the little corner where they sat and talked for hours.



Can you believe Benjamin ran into someone he knew?! In a Starbucks. In Oxford, England. On the other side of the world. Pure craziness.

Matthew Crawford is a dear college friend of Benjamin's from Union University. He and his family are currently living there in Oxford while transitioning between jobs.

I LOVED the cute little market places. Such a fun place to hang out!





















Who drives in Oxford?  All of these bikes were parked outside of the train station at like 9 o'clock. Can you see the building in the back? They were stacked all the way to that building. I have never seen so many bikes in my life. Where are all these people at?!