Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Bristol, Bath, Wales, and Stuff

So I am pretty much tired and don't feel like writing anything right now but thought it would be fun to put some pictures up.  I hope you enjoy them:)
Avebury.... bigger and older than Stonehenge
(this is only one of the rocks... the rocks
are all over the town)
Stonehenge

Some China town in London
Some cool building in London

London Eye
Riding the London Eye... so fun!


Cool cars in London! So many sick cars....

Lion King!

Les Miserables... our entire group went, but only a few of us
got pics together


Wells the city... I look super tall
because the doors are super short ha
Funniest sign in Wells...

Bathing in Bath
Drinking water from Bath.... tasted so nasty...
tasted like metal and smelt like hard boiled eggs...
Funny pig statue in Bath
Bath!

I got to ride on this while our group was checking
out these locks... so cool!(I was the only one that got
to in our group!)
The Locks on the river
Cool pose in Tintern Abbey!
Tintern Abbey
Cool Beach that we went to...
So cold and pebble beaches.  We walked
down the beach barefoot... kinda hurt since
it was cold and so rocky.
The beach place and the arch there...
On our fun little hike in the country...




Britton and I went to Sung Eucharist
at Westminster and met the guy who married Prince
William and Kate. It was so fun to see how they
practice and worship.  Cool experience.
So basically we had a little fun this night!
A few of us would take turns going up floor by floor
dropping water into each others mouths at the bottom
of the stairs.  Haha so funny!!


Good English candy shop!!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Museums, Plays, Cathedrals, and so much more in London!!!

Gelato during intermission of a "Candle
Light Bach Concert"
At the very top of St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Pauls Cathedral(we got a tour)


At Portobello Market  
So we basically did a lot this past week.  We went on a tour of St. Paul's Cathedral as a group.  It was fun and way cool to see.  On the second floor you can talk from one side of the room and hear it clearly from the other because it is completely round.  It was so cool.  Then we went to the very top balcony on the outside.  It was a lot of stairs to get to the top.  But not bad.  It was so cool to see London from up high.  We could see in all directions.  We went on a lot of walks around London(for one of our classes).  They were fun because we got to see a lot of London and we got to become familiar with a lot of places. We went down Regents Canal, to Regents Park, and so many places... It is so much fun being here.

We get great discounts on great seats at all of the plays we go to.  We saw the Lion King(May 4) and had the best seats.  We also went to the Royal Opera House(May 3) and Tara and I got around 100 pound seats for 15 pounds.  It was awesome.  We also happened to go to Keira Knightly's play on the last day(May 7).  It was called Children's Hour. It was good and had a crazy ending! I'm glad I got to see it before it ended.  We waited for her at the end and couldn't take pictures with her cause she was in a hurry.., but we got her autograph and talked to her.

Westminster Abbey on our
Sunday walk.

Big Ben 
Dressing up in costumes at the Victoria
and Albert Museum while doing our
assignment there.

Abbey Road!!! "The Beatles" (We tried to imitate their picture)
Tower of London


Regent's Park
We talked with Keira Knightly and got her
autograph after her final show of "Children's
Hour".  It was a good show! She was so nice
and way skinny.































Big Ben on our Sunday walk
We also went cruising the town a lot.  We ate at so many good places.  I had some good sandwiches, wraps and a way good salmon pasta.

We also went to Abbey Road one day and did a picture like the Beatles have.  It was fun even though everyone would stare at us as we would run in the road during big gaps between cars.  It was raining that day too.  It was the first time that it has rained since I have been here.  It is way windy compared to rainy here.  Hopefully that doesn't change.

There are Ferrari's, Lamborghini's,
Bentley's and all sorts of cool
cars everywhere here!
We have been to a few museums:
        Tate Modern
        Victoria and Albert Museum
        National Gallery Museum
        Maritime Museum

View from Greenwich
We also went to Greenwich.  That is where 0' Longitude point is.  So I was on the east and west side of it at the same time! We took a boat to get to this area.  We got to ride down Thames river.  It was so fun!  I am having so much fun and enjoying it all.  We do a lot of school work, yet have so much fun too! This is the best semester I have had in college so far!