Flooding pics in Port Meadow

Well this has been a pretty sorry excuse for summer here in England this year! I was wearing a scarf and gloves sitting outside at the pub last night! (At least it was dry out.)

We did see some sun today, but it probably wasn't more that 65 degrees outside with the sun. Brian and I decided to take our bikes to the west side of the city to check out some of the flooding. We couldn't go south west where the really serious stuff was happening, but we could walk up to the Thames River along the Port Meadow and check it out. The Port Meadow is basically a huge open grassy field for anyone who owns cattle or horses to let them graze. There are running/walking and biking trails through the meadow, and you can just wander around along the cattle and horses while they munch their grass. Pretty fun!

We took pics of the field which now looks like a lake in the middle of the meadow. Typically this is all grassy fields.
We also walked up to the Thames to see it flooding over the trails and river walkways where the canal boats travel up and down. We think the flooding has gone down since today, so it was worse earlier this week.

All is still fine for us at our place, but internet has been really on and off, so if you haven't heard from us in a bit, it's because we're just waiting out the internet connection!

John, Marcy and Charlie are coming back for a visit starting Wednesday, so we're excited about that. There may be few hangups with some travel plans, but shouldn't completely affected our agenda. It will just make things even more of an adventure!