The Villages of London Assignment 8

We were asked to go to one of the villages that make up London and I chose to go to Wimbledon. Yes, the one with the tennis courts.
However, I didn't want to go because of the sport, I wanted to go for the Buddhist Temple. Wimbledon is home of the only Thai Buddhist Temple in Europe. It is actually ran by the Thai government itself and has five monks living there. The temple was absolutely beautiful. There was a garden surrounding it with flower blooming all over and a zen pond to bring even more peace to the area. The temple itself was white with accents of reds and golds. It was breath taking due to the fact that it is placed in a residential area in what still seems to be the middle of London.
Our next stop was the Tennis club but after seeing that it really was just a bunch of tennis courts we turned away and noticed the golf course across the street instead. Now we can say that we have been there but didn't pay an arm and leg to do anything more than that.
We continued on and saw the St. Mary's Church which was suppose to give us an idea of a village church. It did its job. It was beautiful! There was a wide open field in front of the church before meeting up with a cemetery that had head stones so weathered that you couldn't read the names or dates but spring time flowers still laid themselves over the graves. The church itself had a huge blue door and was dark and made of stone with a tall bell tower. The size of it was just right for a small village but big enough to be called a church instead of a chapel. There was no one around except for the squirrels who had decided to inhabit the beautiful cemetery. I loved it. The idea of it being there for all that time and families continuing to visit it through the ages made me smile.
By this time the rain cloud that had been hanging over our heads was not going to wait any longer so we rushed back to the bus stop in the beginning of the storm. I hadn't mentioned the wonderful park that was along this road. It was the first one I had seen that wasn't manicured to perfection. It was a real, honest to God, green area. I really wanted to go play hide-and-seek in it but the rain and mud stopped me from even suggesting it. Oh right, and the fact that I am twenty years old and should be more mature than that. ;)
We got on the bus and rode around to high street, looking at all the cute dress shops that were calling our names but not our pocket books while not getting soaked thanks to London transportation systems.
It was a lovely day of beautiful scenery, temperamental weather and discovering new places.