week/weekend in london part 2

soo thursday was exciting.. we were supposed to have classes until noon, and then a coach was coming to pick us all up to go to london for the day as a field trip i guess...buttttttt much to our surprise we wake up and it was SNOWING! haha it was beautiful!! so we wake up and decide who needs class? debate on going as we are getting dressed to play in the snow.. and decide to go, so we sit in our 9am class as it continues to snow and we only had one more class so we decide just to go cause we are good students. haha but we got to class and our teacher was like just go play in the snow, have fun, your only kids once, if your inside im kicking you out. its a beautiful day... so we all got excited and went to change and get our cameras and headed to the meadow which is a huge open field and its about a 10 min walk away from the house.. sooo after the snowball fight and a few snow angels in front of the house we walk to the meadow.. of course having a snowball fight on the way over there.. haha you would think we had never seen snow before. but here it was so thick and i really had never seen anything like it. so we play and make a snowman with some of the local kids and just goof off and then we had to come back and get ready to head to london.


our house!!

sarah and i in front of the casa

trevor and i excited about the snow!!!!

meiko!

kate... we are walking to the meadow

walking and throwing snowballs


the beautiful meadow!!!!!

the snowman!

roomies!!!!


trying to make snow angels but also trying not to move cause the ground was so cold and we were getting soaked. so you might have to use your imagination a little on this one :o)

we came back dried off, changed clothes, and then headed to london. once we got there we were dropped off in front of the british library and we went inside and got to see the magna carta, the Gutenberg bible, Shakespeare's first folio, Alice and wonderland draft and first book, some really cool stuff. so we walked around there for a couple hours and hung out.. then we drove around in the charter bus and the guy that was driving took us around several places in london and it was about a one hour tour, we saw the london bridge, the globe theatre, downtown london, st pauls cathedral, and a lot of other stuff.

we then got dropped off to spend about 2 hours to eat and walk around and do whatever before the play started so elise, sarah, trevor and i decided to go eat a normal meal with normal food and not just pubs and stuff. so we went to a place called smollensky's and it was really nice. we all got normal food but i just haven't had veggies a whole lot cause im cooking on my own and eat a lot of bread and cereal and easy stuff. haha so i just got the most amazing chicken caesar salad and a bowl creamed spinach. it was delicious. we had a nice dinner and then had about half an hour to spare before the show started so we just got some coffee and walked around for a little bit then headed to the theatre early cause it was so cold outside.


trev and sarah at smollensky's

elise and i about to eat amazing fooood

the play started at 7pm, it was good. long, really long, but good. we saw Shakespeare's antony and cleopatra starring patrick stewart and harriet walter's. they did a good job but i got bored. it was hard to follow all of it and it was just real long but it was good to go see.. mimi barnard even had a hard time paying attention to it all and staying engaged she said. the playhouse was beautiful. there were a lot of people there and they were all dressed up.. it was cute. we finally got out at 10:30ish and met back on the bus and headed back to oxford. it was a long day, but a really good one. the rest of the weekend was devoted to hanging out, shopping, and writing papers and doing stuff for class before our big travel break coming up on wednesday!


it was dark, and we were rushed to take this picture.. but that's us in front of the playhouse

group shot before the show. in the front: trevor, me, briana, and courtney.. behind us being weird is laura, katie, kate, and brian

the professors: jackie(history), janine(bible), ron(global studies/history), mimi(english), wayne(family studies)

i will write more later before i leave, but if not i will write about my travel break when i get back on sunday! love you all!