One plus of going to a Catholic University is 2 weeks of Spring Break!
The other cool thing about this week, was that it was my first time back in the UK since we moved back to the states 10 years ago.
Edinburgh, Scotland:
P.S. When we were on the train, we went through Durham, which has this really awesome Cathedral that I learned about in Art History in High School. It's HUGE. And I definitely FREAKed out about it. And the woman next to me was really concerned.
York, England:
There are no photos from York, because we were there for less than 24 hours. We got in at about 8:00pm, and found our hostel. Luckily, we had gotten snacks, because apparently, there aren't any restaurants open that late in York. But we decided to go to a movie, since nothing else was happening. We saw The Hunger Games, as Alyssa hadn't seen it, and I saw it in French and didn't understand it all.
When we got back to the hostel, I was waiting downstairs to get an adaptor, when Alyssa comes down and says, "There's a boy in my bed" (this was not the first time, hence the frustration) and asked for new sheets, and she had pointed him to the right bed, and she went back upstairs as I waited. She then came back down about 2 minutes later, and announced that there was a different boy now in my bed. And that all of the beds in the room were taken, but I wasn't there. So the guy at the front desk went up and dealt with it. There were two guys named the same thing that they checked into the same bed.
Anyway, that was all sorted out, and the next day we got up and walked to York Minster, but it cost about 8 pounds to go inside, so we ended up walking to the Jorvik Museum early, and they let us in. The Jorvik Museum tells the story of Viking-time York and there's a RIDE. It's like Viking Disneyland, except it only takes like 15 minutes. But it takes you around Jorvik (the Viking name of York) and introduces you to the people that live there. It's AWESOME.
And then we got on a train to London.
London, England:
The Lee, Great Missenden, Bucks, United Kingdom:
Alyssa did a 10 hour tour of Stonehenge, Bath, The Cotswolds and Stratford, and since I've done all of that at least twice, I decided that I was going to go to The Lee for a bit! I took the train from Marlebone Station in London to Great Missenden, as I'd done many times before, but this time I had to walk the three miles each way to The Lee, which is the hamlet my family and I lived in when we lived in England. It's a beautiful little village, that hadn't changed to much in appearance, but the people certainly had.
Well, that was my second week of Spring Break! Hope you enjoyed it!
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