Wednesday was another day when Latham had a full day of conference obligations. And Lillian and I had a full day of obligations to fun.
We breakfasted on a Donut Spezial and then immediately lunched on a chicken sandwich.
We walked to the Botanical Gardens and on the way there we collected chestnuts, left our initials in the leaves ...
... and discovered an outdoor library.
The Botanical Gardens were huge and insurmountable by us in one day, so we decided to explore just a few key parts.
We saw a lily pond ...
... that had this weird green sculpture in the middle. Lillian threw stones at the sculpture until she got twelve hits.
We saw a giant sequoia and touched it's soft bark. It is said that you can punch through the bark with your fist - but we didn't think it was prudent to try it just then.
We also found what we thought were crazy long pine cones, but later we figured out that they were dried branches of bizarre evergreens.
Lastly, Lillian was really excited to see how beautifully symmetric some giant leaves can be.
And then we went back to the playground and Lillian became even more brave and did some spectacular acrobatics.
Before we went home, we also made giant skulls in the playground sand.
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