Ever need a great place to think in order to get away from the every day city life? Well go to a great in door garden at Botanical Gardens called the Fern Room; a completely sunken grotto twenty-eight feet in the ground, with only a flat glass roof at ground level.

The circular wooden floor when entering the round Fern Room feels very slippery because of the tiny sprinklers on top of the roof. When the sprinklers come on, the atmosphere feels very much tropical and seem like it just got done raining. Further ahead was the sound of water trickling down, which made me, want to walk to find out which direction it came from. A very beautiful waterfall came out from the limestone wall and fell into a small pond of water. Walking underneath the waterfall and touching it without getting wet was quite intriguing. The water from the waterfall was very

cold. A little sign next to the waterfall read: “A

waterfall in Chinese symbolism represents the feminine while a cliff or mountain is the masculine. The downward motion is the harmonious counterpart to the upward-striving mountain.”

In the middle of the room an island of two-s

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