As I mentioned and as you can see in my previous post from the pictures, we had a great time yesterday at the zoo. This zoo has an impressive amount of space especially considering it is in a country where everything is normally squished together and small. They have award winning gardens and many places that I could envision us sitting down to have a picnic. We did actually eat in the café while we were there and found American favorites like chicken nuggets, pizza and french fries and we fed our family of 4 for 18 pounds. They did also have another café with all traditional British fare – I saw that one first and was really concerned we would not find anything we would like and then fortunately we stumbled across the Americanized one. I did find one really odd thing about the zoo though, it was worth taking a picture of it and hubby and I both looked at each other and said –this needs to go in the blog. The picture on top is a mini-sculpture of a rhino with water squirting out of his back end. Odd, but true, and not really sure what the point of it was? In any case, one thing I found extremely uncomfortable yesterday was the driving. We have really not had much reason to get on the motorway (freeway) since we have been here. Most of the places we go are back roads. However yesterday, to get to the zoo, we had to jump on the M56 which is a larger motorway in England. I am still jumpy about driving, so I was riding shotgun –in the seat that I would normally be sitting in to drive in the US. It was an odd feeling shooting down the motorway at the National speed limit of 70 mph feeling like I should be in control of the car and knowing that I am not. All your distance judgments are out of whack and everything feels backwards. The picture below might give you a good idea of what this looks like. Take note of where I am sitting in the car while taking it and the cars on the other side of the motorway coming towards us. (if you click on the picture it will enlarge it). Looks really unnatural doesn’t it?
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