We All Scream for G&D's

It's our first weekend in Oxford and both yesterday and today I have slept in until noon. I wake up feeling conflicted; glad that I'm catching up on sleep, but not wanting to waste the day.

Yesterday my flatmate and I decided to combat the feeling of being prisoners of the apartment by going out to do some grocery shopping at the Tesco. It was hectic. In America, one grabs a cart, meanders around the store, stalking up for weeks worth of food. Here people grab a basket, speed walk to the item they need (only buying for no more than two nights worth of food), and race to the checkout counter so that they make it out in record time. While the English natives were practicing for Olympic grocery shopping, I spent about 10 minutes just looking at how expensive peanut butter is. Radonculous. SEND ME PB!

G&D's ice-cream!!

Once we returned to the apartment however we continued our lazy day. We ate dinner downstairs with Cameron, Adrie, and the other Olivia while watching Netflix. Adrie wanted to go on a walk and possibly get ice-cream so she, Britney, and I put on shoes and walked into town. I have decided that the best way to get acquainted with a city is to get lost. It wasn't intentional, but that's pretty much what we did. Penelope had pointed out where a G&D's was earlier in the week so we just figured we would walk until we found it. We walked all over, but didn't give up hope and finally came upon the restaurant which to our excitement was open until midnight. There we enjoyed our first ice-cream date of the semester.

After sleeping past noon again today, the five of us walked to Cornmarket Street where we got our pictures taken for our student id cards. Tomorrow when the Oxford Student Union is open we will go and get our id cards (and can then get all the student discounts here!)

Outside the Covered Market

The rest of the day involved a trip to the Covered Market for some of Ben's Cookies (triple chocolate chip). Since it was Sunday, there weren't many shops open. We were only a few streets over, so we then checked out Christ Church. The plan is to go back later with our student ids so that admission is cheaper, but we still walked around the grounds and made some swan friends. I'm interested in returning and making a day of it to see where parts of the Harry Potter movies were filmed as well as where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.