...at a botanic garden. Yum.

Day 2

Before the cake, though, I finished up the live plant census from Monday. I was SO glad to get it finished.

Anyway, today was Courtney's birthday, so we had a party, with the largest and most decadent chocolate cake I've ever eaten. We sat around the table outside and had cake and tea.

I dug into my large slice with zeal. It was a really good cake. Then I got about halfway through and began to feel rather queasy. The tea didn't help. I ate the whole thing and felt even queasier. So nauseous, in fact, that I took one look at my lunchbox and thought, "No, thanks." So yeah, I skipped lunch today.

Erin had to leave at 11 to go on a trip which lasts until next Tuesday. She let me use her computer to do the dead plant accession number thing I was doing on Monday. And since we are apparently both into 89.9 (the classical music radio station), she showed me how to stream it on the computer so I could listen to music while I sorted through plant tags. She even, very kindly, left me the last pieces of the mint chocolate bar. I can't even look at it, though, because I think I'll be sick if I even think about any more chocolate.

So I sat down at the computer and got to work inputting data from the Delphinium leucophaeum red dish germination trials. There were 17 dishes in all, and that means a lot of paperwork. But after Ed patiently instructed me in the art of Microsoft Excel, I sorted through it all and jotted it down in a spreadsheet. No problem. I got it done in about an hour and a half, I think.

So I'm feeling pretty upbeat about having finished my work, and I decide to go take a stroll and eat some grapes.

Me: Hey Ed, I'm done!
(Ed takes a seat at Erin's computer and looks over my red dish data.)
Ed: Okay. Did you finish the blue dish trials?
Me: ...
Ed: ...
Me: ...
Ed: ...
Me: ...I guess I'm not done, then.
Ed: ...Maybe you should go take a walk first.

I got most of the way through the second part, then I was supposed to leave at 5, but my dad got stuck in traffic. So I wandered around the place taking pictures with my cell phone camera. So yay, I finally have pictures. Please excuse the subpar quality: it is only a cell phone camera, after all. The pictures really don't do the beauty of the garden justice.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but I'll end this post here.

Photo gallery: 

Doesn't this just look delicious?

I took way too many pictures of flowers.

This is where we ate cake.

Ed's office on the left, and Erin's on the right.

This is the house which the BBG is situated around.