Rachel and I decided to head over to Harvard’s Arboretum today. Neither of us had been before, and both had free time in the early afternoon. We took the scenic route to the Arboretum and back, to say the least. The directions we got off the internet were meant for cars and not bikes, and we got lost on the first turn. After stopping for directions, we eventually found our way over to Jamaica Pond. We didn’t know which way the Arboretum was, but we rode around the whole pond, and took a few pictures.

The weather was absolutely gorgeous out.

We ran into a gigantic family of ducklings, and took a few pictures. More ducklings can be found here.

After hanging out on the Pond for a while, we decided to give it one more shot. Fortunately for us, the turn we needed just involved taking a different fork in the bike path. We arrived at the Arnold Arboretum about 5 minutes later. On bike, we decided to stick to the main trails. We went up Bussey Hill to the Overlook, hung around for a while, and took a nice nap. Coming down the hill was really fun. :) Some pictures:

I had a SLOPE meeting at 5:30pm, so we didn’t stay very long. Definitely would love to come back another time and take more pictures. On the way home, we got lost again, and wound up over by the Church of Scientology. With Mass. Ave as our reference, we managed to make it home alright.

As a side note, I decided to start playing around with collections on Flickr, so all the photos from today are in one here.