Saturday

Today was the Bath and Stonehenge day trip. It was extremely awesome. First off, the English countryside is absolutely beautiful. Taking the bus to Stonehenge, and especially between Stonehenge and Bath, afforded us some beautiful sights. I was surprised how quickly it got green when leaving the city. The best part was the sheep farm on the tiny hillside between the highway and the outside fence of the airport (I think it was the airport, at least. It may have been an industrial park or something). Stonehenge was cool, but got boring quickly. It was really cool to see and was even bigger than I expected, but I admit that it did get boring quickly. Here's me representing my roots in front of England's ancient monument.





We decided to go off and commune with nature and narrowly avoid piles of fresh poop in a massive field with some sheep. That was nice.


So then we headed off to Bath, which took about an hour. The trip was beautiful. I took some pictures from the bus. This is one of them.


Bath was cool. The first thing we did was grab some lunch - a lot of people hadn't had anything to eat for breakfast so we had to take care of that. We went to an Irish pub. Rugby was on and we all got a pint of Guinness Red, which I had never heard of before and was really, really good. Me and Adrienne also each got an amazing veggie burger. Very tasty. Anyway, the next thing we did was go right to the Abbey and the Roman Baths. We were on a very limited schedule, so we decided to skip the baths and its 9 pound entry fee. The abbey was quite breathtaking and dates from the 15th century.





Next we took a walk along the river. There's a couple awesome bridges and a bunch of cool boats, plus the little dam. It was kind of okay, I guess.



The next awesome thing we did was go to the oldest house in Bath, which also happens to be the oldest tea house in Bath. The building is from the 15th century, and the tea house opened in the 17th century. I got Darjeeling with lemon, but Matt got the more traditional house blend with milk and sugar. Here I am, all prim and proper.



When we got back to London, we hung around for a while at the International Student House and chatted with a few people before we went our separate ways. Now I'm at home updating this thing while Mr. and Mrs. Smith is on tv. They love their sub-par American movies at night here. That's all for now.