A Weekend in Oxford

Our run through University Parks in Oxford

Wycliffe Hall

On Friday afternoon our trip to Oxford started with a trek across Cambridge to catch the megabus, on which you submit your stomach to endure an obscene number of roundabouts for the next three hours. We arrived at the Hardins' shortly after 5pm for a delicious dinner. Saturday morning we started our day with a run through University Parks, which lay directly behind the Hardin's house. Wycliffe Hall, an evangelical hall of the University of Oxford, where Justin works, sits just in front of their house. After the run we all went to watch Drew Hardin's football (soccer) matches against the "well-organized" Abingdon team. During the afternoon we went for a walk through Port Meadows, which also included foot races, posh dog petting, and a little game called "piggy in the middle." Afterward we went home for a nice English meal: duck, brussel sprouts, asparagus, & potatoes. On Sunday we attended a lovely service at St. Andrew's church. Our weekend also included Justin, Drew, Ethan, and little Drew determining to contact J.K. Rowling concerning their brilliant ideas for a new youth literature series, English cooking tips from Jill, skipping rope in the living room, cheeky conversations with Drew's friend Felix, picking flowers and reading The Potty Book for Boys with Annie, late night conversation with Justin and Jill (ranging from nostalgic phrases created by the musings of curse-free TV to SBO's [soil-based organisms], filtering chlorinated water, and the not so recent news of BPA free plastic drinking containers), and many more memories we will hold dear for years to come.