London, Bath, HENGE OF STONE!!!

Tues, Apr. 7- Stonehenge and Bath
Woke up ongodly early this morning, and headed off on a train to Stonehenge!! (IT'S A HENGE OF STONE!!!) Stonehenge is in the middle of nowhere, basically, but it’s really amazing to walk around, and see in real scale. It’s unbelievably huge, and to think its been there for thousands of years is crazy. I got some great pictures around the henge (which means hanging in some old language,) and also took some goofy shots, of course. We then headed off to Bath, which, coincidentally, was named after a bath! It’s a really old hot spring that people have lived around for centuries, and has a really cute city built around it now. We met up with Elaine and Tyler, and had dinner there, after wandering around for a while. We went on a tour of the ancient roman bath, which was really cool, and quite extensive. My camera suffered from some sort of malfunction where it got to 63 pictures, and then told me that my memory was full. The 4 gigs of memory were def not full, so I didn’t get to take pictures for most of the afternoon… thankfully, I got Stonehenge and the baths!

Weds, Apr. 8-London- Let’s get it on!
Today was great, Karen and I woke up early, went down to Kensington, and met Ariel for breakfast at her house (which I cooked, of course.) I made some pancakes with strawberries, bananas, and chocolate chunks! They were quite yummy, and really filling. After that, we rode the tube to the bus station, to buy tickets for tomorrow, to take us to the airport, and then attempted to leave London for Cardiff. Turns out London loves us a lot, or the tube hates us. We waited for almost an hour for ANY train to come through the station, before deciding that, even if we left now, we’d have less than an hour in Cardiff and caerphilly before having to come back, and, at 40 pounds, that’s not worth it! So, instead, we got organized for the trip tomorrow, did some quick laundry, and made contact with people in Ireland, to prepare them for our arrival. Since it was a gorgeous sunny day, we also booked tickets for the London Eye, which is a HUGE ferris wheel over the Thames river, which provides great views of the city. We wandered into town, grabbed some fish and chips, and then hit up the eye. It takes about 30 minutes to go all the way around, and I got some great pics of London, and the parliament and big ben in particular. Afterwards, I contacted my friend Philip, who studied abroad at BC, and is now living in London, and we went out to meet him and some of his German friends in Wimbledon, and spoke German, and drank for a few hours, just relaxing nicely, and catching up on life. It is now bedtime, as it is almost 1, and I have to be up at 430 to catch a train to catch a bus to catch a plane. Yay travel!