I will concede that flowers are pretty, but I still argue that they aren't as useful as horses. Horses can pull things, carry you and let you reenact the Lone Ranger. Flowers will let you reenact the 60's. Flowers smell pretty and look nice. Horses are great companions and usually live longer than a week. Enough arguing that horses are better than flowers. This is a photo of one of the 104 types of roses found in the Christchurch Bo Gards.
I went to the Riccarton Bush which is a special piece of land in Christchurch with a predator fence. It keeps the predators like me out of the area, except I got in because I can push a button and open a door at the same time. In the picture, I was reenacting Jurassic Park and pretending to be a Velociraptor. There is a cage with two doors at the entrance to the area and you can only open one door at a time. This cage system is to ensure that feral cats and other predators cannot get in to the protected area. Riccarton Bush is a "kahikatea floodplain forest" and "is probably the oldest protected natural area in the country." It has many native plants, trees and was full of birds. It was nice to walk, but it was quite small. We left Riccarton and went to get pizza from Hell. I picked my pizza because of it's name. I got the Mordor. It was BBQ-ey and delicious.
Then we walked to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. I liked the Bo Gards, but now that I think about it, I might have a natural preference for any place with Botanic Gardens in the name. These places are usually green, beautiful and peaceful. It's hard to dislike places like that. Gordon likes roses so we stopped by the Rose Garden. I took a few pictures because they were very pretty so I'm officially conceding to S.B. that flowers are awesome and don't need to be useful. I really enjoyed my time wandering around the Bo Gards.
This picture reminded me of a place I saw in London. There was a similar lovely walkway shaded by trees. This was a huge park with large grassy fields, lawn tennis courts, lawn bowling and streams. Christchurch has the neatest places to wander, read and hang out.
MORDOR! You have to find the LOTR sets!
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