"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage."

~Regina Nadelson

Kathryn and I.

Justice!

This week has held many adventures. On Monday I searched the whole of the area nearby my school for postcards. Now when you aren't looking for something, it is naturally easy to find, and usually there are postcards spurting out the ying-yang. But on a rainy day that you decide to wander about on your own looking for postcards, every store you walk into will look at you like you are crazy for asking about them, and tell you that they don't have any. Finally I found a little store with lots of postcards, so I bought 20 and then spent the next hour filling them out. It was a fun time. :)

On Wednesday we went for a walk and ended up at a little church called Saint Sepulchre. It was originally built in 1103, and finished in 1173! And then it was rebuilt and enlarged in 1450, and restored in 1670, so this little church had a lot of history.

Little glimpse of the outside!

And the inside.

Thursday was my friend Emily's birthday. It was really rainy and we took a walking tour with our history class. That kind of bummed her out. :)

Guildhall.

But it ended up being really cool and we got to see an medevial guildhall that has been much restored throughout the years and is still is use! It was built between 1411 and 1430, and parts of it stood there since the 13th century. It is part of the original square mile of London, and thats where all the local government developed.

And the inside!

Then we went to dinner, which was awesome, and Othello, and which was not quite as awesome, due to the large number of understudies it employed!

Joel, Me, and Emily at dinner.

Friday we went to Bath, which may be one of my new favorite place EVER! It was a beautiful day, and we got to go to Bath Abbey, which was founded in the 7th century and rebuilt in the 10th, and again restored in the 17th century, and of course quite often since then since it is still a working church!

Above is the outside of Bath Abbey,
and below is Kathryn and I inside the Abbey.

We of course saw the ancient Roman Baths still present from when the Romans invaded and took over the island of Britain back in 43 AD.

The Roman Bath. Steamy!

Two views of Bath Abbey from the Roman Bath.

We also walked all around, saw some pretty amazing buildings, as well as the Museum of Fashion!

The Circle! It was so huge, I could barely fit it all in. Gorgeous though. :)

And then, since it was Friday the 13th, disaster struck. On the way back, Emily, Kathryn and I boarded a very crowed train home. It was so crowed we all had to stand in the isle for 35 minutes until the first stop. Finally we found seats, and sank, exhausted, into them. There we sat for another 2 hours, when we began to realize we should be back in London by now. That's right, for 2 hours and 25 minutes we rode a train in the completely wrong direction and didn't notice. We ended up on the southern coast of England, literally at the sea side. We finally got directions back to London, and while waiting for the next train we decided to get food. The station cafe closed RIGHT as we reached it, and then the vending machine was out of order, that is when I turned to Emily and Kathryn and said, "OH MY GOSH! Its Friday the 13th!" That explained it. But four hours later than we were planning, we made it back to the tube station, on the complete opposite side of London that we should have come in on on the correct train. It was a lovely accidental trip to the southern side of England, but we made it back safe and sound!