Well, it is Wednesday night, and i'm sitting here staring at my open suitcase trying to figure out how to get everything home without it weighing tooooo much, and it isn't working. *SIGH*
I'm really sorry I haven't blogged since Sunday. It has really been a jam packed few days and what little time I have had to myself I've slept, done homework, or worked on this packing puzzle I have going on here.
I'm really really tired. I promise I will clue you in on the last 4 days in London. Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan, Changing of the guard and Kensington Palace (Where PRincess Diana lived) Just to name a few things we did. i'll post as soon as I get home and i'm not using tooth picks to hold my eyes open.
Thanks for taking my trip with me. I'll be home in about 24 hours!!!!(If all goes well of course!)
Kait
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Sunday!!! LONDON!
Well it is Sunday night, 10:32 for me, you are all probably taking your Sunday afternoon naps.. or waking up from them.
After a long and exhausting ridiculous train ride from Edinburgh (I really really didn't want to leave) we finally made it to London on Friday afternoon, and to our dorms by 3:00ish. If there was an obstacle to be met, we met it, and everyone wanted to kill each other by the time we had room keys.
Friday night we all went to the BBC Proms concert. They do 45 showings of the same music over a couple weeks time, using different conductors and symphonies, singers, and soloist throughout the weeks. The one we were at was actually broadcast live. It was really interesting to see, but it seemed to get really long after a while, on top of the tired and irritated, we all came to the dorm and shut ourselves away from the world. Sat. morning we got up and had class, I was in a particularly sour mood because by back has been bothering me and then we headed to the British Museum, which is the British equivalent to the Smithsonian (That was totally misspelled) Which was a really bad idea for a Sat. We decided that all of the important museums in the world need to be run by Texans standing around with cattle prods to 'remind' people "DO NOT TOUCH THE OBJECTS"... it was ridiculous. It became very obvious that some cultures don't have the same ideas as we do about precious artifacts. Little kids crawling all over statues from Eqypt and the Easter Islands and their parents just smiling and taking pictures. I blame the British museum people, if you don't want it touched, put a rope around it or something. Heather and i just about had heart attacks a couple times watching people with their hands all marble busts from the Roman period.
We did see some really really interesting egyptian artifacts. Aparently everyone in the world things the egyptians are awesome, because these rooms were packed with people (And all artifacts were securly behind glass walls.. but people were still taking flash photography pictures (which speeds up the deterioration process of inks and fabrics)) Anyway, we left after a couple hours of seeing everything we cared to see (Including the Rosetta stone, which was kind of cool)
I came back to the dorms and went to sleep. Actually I was able to talk to Aaron for almost a full hour, probably the first conversation we have had that I wasn't COMPLTELely exhausted. He cheered me up but I was still exhausted and used the rest of the day to play catch-up on sleep. That night we attempted to go to The Lexington which was supposed to be "Nashville on the Thames" on Sat. nights, but apparently it was really only from 1-4 or something that afternoon, so we didn't stick around their very long.
Today, Heather, Pilar, Park, Megan, and I went to Hampton Court, which is the home to Henry the VII, The king who married 6 times and was the basic reason of the seperation of the Catholic Church from England... the one who decapitated wives for not giving him sons, basically. It was really really interesting. I wish I could have seen more, but with a group like ours, on such a busy day, it was difficult to see everything we wanted. This month has been Henry the VIII month all over London, and theyve been doing reinactments, and today was the last. All throughout the day you had opportunities to see Henry and Catherine Parr get ready for their wedding (His last wedding) You could meet up with her in her chamber to help choose the wedding dress, or go to the wine cellar to help celebrate his 'stag' party, and the wedding, just as it was in real life, was a small private affair no one saw, and then you could meet up with them afterwards to offer your congradulations. It was really a neat thing. I only got to do one step of the whole affair, but it was really nice because they actually acted like you were there during the time the activity was actually going on. They included the crowd, even allowing a couple little girls stand in as bridesmaids, carrying the 'Queens" train. It was an interesting way to learn about some of those things. We stopped in the area of Wimbledon but the girls that went out to the actual Tennis courts found them to be closed today. It isn't nearly as difficult to get around here, because of the Metro system versus having to wait on buses all over Edinburgh.
I'm still enjoying myself, but the exhaustion has definately set in and we are all just ready to get home. Tomorrow is class and tomorrow night I am going to see Phantom of the Opera, and I'm really excited. We also may go see Peter Pan, the theatre version not the disney version, because it is being done in a outdoor theatre. So far, I don't really have any other plans, as usual. I'm just kind of taking the trip as it goes! We will be home about 9:50 Thursday night Tx Time, which will feel like 3:00am for us! YAY! I'm ready to get home and see the cats and Boss (Aaron but me on speaker phone the other day and I talked to Boss and he went nuts jumping all around and licking the phone... HE MISSES ME!! :)) but I'm not ready for the Texas heat!
Have a good couple of days.. I haven't been blogging as frequently, because I'm exhausted before I make it to the computer!!!
I"ll keep you updated! - Kait
After a long and exhausting ridiculous train ride from Edinburgh (I really really didn't want to leave) we finally made it to London on Friday afternoon, and to our dorms by 3:00ish. If there was an obstacle to be met, we met it, and everyone wanted to kill each other by the time we had room keys.
Friday night we all went to the BBC Proms concert. They do 45 showings of the same music over a couple weeks time, using different conductors and symphonies, singers, and soloist throughout the weeks. The one we were at was actually broadcast live. It was really interesting to see, but it seemed to get really long after a while, on top of the tired and irritated, we all came to the dorm and shut ourselves away from the world. Sat. morning we got up and had class, I was in a particularly sour mood because by back has been bothering me and then we headed to the British Museum, which is the British equivalent to the Smithsonian (That was totally misspelled) Which was a really bad idea for a Sat. We decided that all of the important museums in the world need to be run by Texans standing around with cattle prods to 'remind' people "DO NOT TOUCH THE OBJECTS"... it was ridiculous. It became very obvious that some cultures don't have the same ideas as we do about precious artifacts. Little kids crawling all over statues from Eqypt and the Easter Islands and their parents just smiling and taking pictures. I blame the British museum people, if you don't want it touched, put a rope around it or something. Heather and i just about had heart attacks a couple times watching people with their hands all marble busts from the Roman period.
We did see some really really interesting egyptian artifacts. Aparently everyone in the world things the egyptians are awesome, because these rooms were packed with people (And all artifacts were securly behind glass walls.. but people were still taking flash photography pictures (which speeds up the deterioration process of inks and fabrics)) Anyway, we left after a couple hours of seeing everything we cared to see (Including the Rosetta stone, which was kind of cool)
I came back to the dorms and went to sleep. Actually I was able to talk to Aaron for almost a full hour, probably the first conversation we have had that I wasn't COMPLTELely exhausted. He cheered me up but I was still exhausted and used the rest of the day to play catch-up on sleep. That night we attempted to go to The Lexington which was supposed to be "Nashville on the Thames" on Sat. nights, but apparently it was really only from 1-4 or something that afternoon, so we didn't stick around their very long.
Today, Heather, Pilar, Park, Megan, and I went to Hampton Court, which is the home to Henry the VII, The king who married 6 times and was the basic reason of the seperation of the Catholic Church from England... the one who decapitated wives for not giving him sons, basically. It was really really interesting. I wish I could have seen more, but with a group like ours, on such a busy day, it was difficult to see everything we wanted. This month has been Henry the VIII month all over London, and theyve been doing reinactments, and today was the last. All throughout the day you had opportunities to see Henry and Catherine Parr get ready for their wedding (His last wedding) You could meet up with her in her chamber to help choose the wedding dress, or go to the wine cellar to help celebrate his 'stag' party, and the wedding, just as it was in real life, was a small private affair no one saw, and then you could meet up with them afterwards to offer your congradulations. It was really a neat thing. I only got to do one step of the whole affair, but it was really nice because they actually acted like you were there during the time the activity was actually going on. They included the crowd, even allowing a couple little girls stand in as bridesmaids, carrying the 'Queens" train. It was an interesting way to learn about some of those things. We stopped in the area of Wimbledon but the girls that went out to the actual Tennis courts found them to be closed today. It isn't nearly as difficult to get around here, because of the Metro system versus having to wait on buses all over Edinburgh.
I'm still enjoying myself, but the exhaustion has definately set in and we are all just ready to get home. Tomorrow is class and tomorrow night I am going to see Phantom of the Opera, and I'm really excited. We also may go see Peter Pan, the theatre version not the disney version, because it is being done in a outdoor theatre. So far, I don't really have any other plans, as usual. I'm just kind of taking the trip as it goes! We will be home about 9:50 Thursday night Tx Time, which will feel like 3:00am for us! YAY! I'm ready to get home and see the cats and Boss (Aaron but me on speaker phone the other day and I talked to Boss and he went nuts jumping all around and licking the phone... HE MISSES ME!! :)) but I'm not ready for the Texas heat!
Have a good couple of days.. I haven't been blogging as frequently, because I'm exhausted before I make it to the computer!!!
I"ll keep you updated! - Kait
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