Tower Bridge

Woot Woot here we are in London good ol' London 

Here he is tall and stoic not allowing anything funny, or disturbing 

to disrupt his focus. 

that is he allowed nothing but the comments of our group to disrupt him

Side story:  we all wanted to see if we could make him smile and after several tires i am proud to say we succeeded.  first let me just say that even being around them is kinda awkward because you know they are alive and human, however they do not react to anything!!  you can be standing 2 meters away from them talking about them and they still show no reaction. so i was not all that excited to be a part of the scheme to break his concentration, but i witnessed it.  

                           lindsey: "his lips are just so kissable" 

          enough said he cracked up !  and from that moment on we all tried to make all of them laugh and i am glad to announce that everyone we saw we made them laugh .... they all needed some happiness in their boring lives.

and of course the tower bridge 

i saw the crown jewels and went through an interesting armer museum and saw all the cool things around the tower of london

later in the night we went to Beethoven's 9th in ST. PAULS cathedral 

It was amazing!  i have no idea what to say other than the fact that 

                    Beautiful music + Amazing building = BLISS

Bath Glastonbury and Stourhead

Bath or should i say bOth 


after hearing much about bath from the characters of the many austen novels that we have read my mind already had a firm image of what it should look like, however what i thought it should look like and what it did look like were slightly different.  


the roman baths were extremely interesting, they are built on natural hot springs and although i probably should have already known this i didn't and i found it extremely interesting.  

I am pretty sure that i would not enjoy swimming in these 

rather green bathes 

Although we did not have the opportunity to enter into Bath Abbey, because 

there was a graduation that was going on we got to observe the beautiful 

outside of the Abbey and the part i like the best were the Angels climbing up

the ladders to Heaven 

The next stop within Bath was to the Assembly hall where characters from Jane Austen's novels would have gone to dance the night away.  

Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning 

Beautiful Chandeliers 

Large dancing rooms

and a group full of silly girls

NOT much has changed since the days of Jane Austen 

We quite enjoyed dancing all afternoon

Next stop is Stourhead 

This is one of the most beautiful places that i have seen every way you looked there was something beautiful to see.  i could have spent hours just walking around the lake and enjoying the scenery 

many of you probably recognize this from the latest version of 

Pride and prejudice well here it is and it sure is beautiful

so many girls all that was missing was the Mr. Darcies!!

further around the lake there is another little building that is just as picturesque as this one 

look at those ugly ducklings 

they sure are cute... even if they are Ugly 

everything was brilliant 

i can't wait to travel back here and spend

more time exploring the grounds

of Stourhead

Glastonbury 

Glastonbury Abbey- it is said that this is the place where joseph of arimathea brought jesus when he was a boy and where his rod planted a thorn tree whose decedents still are alive today in the Abbey gardens.  this is also where the legendary king arthur and his wife are said to be buried 

one word DISSOLUTION 

the abbey was destroyed during kind henry viii's reign when ordered a dissolution of all the catholic chapels, monasteries, abbeys, etc.

the tree coming in from the left side of the photo is said 

to be a thorn tree that is a descendant of the 

tree that joseph planted thousands of years ago

take it or leave it... believe it of not ... i don't know

i really enjoyed roaming around these ruins but there were a few things that disagreed with me...

poor little pigs, what did they do to deserve a sad end like this?

 i know this is a super cute picture of me... but it is showing king arthur's "resting place" 

Yeah i am pretty sure it is creepy that i did this but oh well what's done is done

at the end of our visit here we liked the abbey so much that we all decided to change our life styles and become... 

ok so not really but they just had these sweet costumes for little kids to try on ... and we just couldn't resist 

On to the TOR 

the hike to the top 

the tor 

some of the view 

more of the view

even more of the view

the rest of the view

all around the top of the hill there are beautiful views that you just can't ever get enough of.  so many different ways to look you can see almost clear out to the sea  

I LOVED hiking to the top of the hill and looking over the valley it was just amazingly brilliant 

This day was spectacular 

What a great way to end day trip #2 

Admitance

ok the last post was a mistake on my part...

Not realizing that i had already posted a post about these photos i spent an hour with the slow internet trying to write and publish this post... SUCCESS... again... because yep i just repeated a day!!! well great now you get two drafts of blogging for one day .... lucky you!!

July 3rd ish

JORDAN  this one is for you!!!  actually they are all basically for you so read up !! 


Platform 9 3/4 


The crazy thing about this is that this platform is definitely not between platforms 9 and 10 ... it was not as easy to find as it should be there were no HUGE signs there was absolutely no way for me to know where the stupid platform is 


so finally we figured out where it was !!! 

this is where it was supposed to be 

and 

this is where it actually was 

so as i walked back i saw this wheel and the first thought that popped into my head was this 

     Why would someone chain a wheel to this bike rack 

and then it hit me 

     it probably was not this stupid wheel that the person was trying to keep safe...

it was just a crazy thought and then i just started laughing sooo hard and of course i had to take photos 

here is the sad lonely wheel 

so of course we went to see the cricket grounds and on our way we happened upon a random red phone booth ... what are the odds but yes it is true we found a phone booth and i had to take the traditional " i am a tourist" photo 

This just SHOUTS

"I AM A TOURIST"

And then we had another Wimbledon Moment with the cricket grounds ... don't worry we only walked like 4 miles to try and see a random cricket game and here is the view i got... 

yeah pretty much i am pro at going to places that i am not allowed inside of...  

      and why would these people not move for my picture... i wish i knew that answer for myself ... i asked them kindly to move but they opted not to listen 

here is just some random book that i found at the british library that i thought was kinda funny 

THE BRITISH LIBRARY 

I LOVED the library, what started out as another tedious assignment turned into a LOVEly afternoon.  

there were so many amazing things to see there lots of old documents and jane austen notes on for her books i was in heaven seeing all of the old books and such so for all those planning on visiting London i would HIGHLY recommend the british library there is one section in particular on the first floor that is the best. 

LAST stops of the day 

Sherlock Holmes museum 

GReat ... but we didn't go on the tour so basically we just looked around in the gift shop and took creepy pictures out front 

last but not least the BEATLE'S STORE 

Creepy picture of the DAY # 2

  

Platform 9 3/4 and the other stuff

This is for you Jordan Jones 

So basically I want to just straight up tell everyone that platform 9 3/4 is not between platforms 9 and 10.  Those stupid wizards think that they can just move everything around so that it confuses us dumb Muggles.  we originally looked between platforms 9 and 10 and this is what we found...

well i was just walking by this bike rack when i happened upon this wheel 

i just walked by the first time but since i had to go back the way i came because 

there was NO platform between 9 and 10 i saw it again and it hit me

WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD A PERSON LOCK A STUPID WHEEL

TO A BIKE RACK? i mean who would want to steal a wheel

well apparently i was not thinking brilliantly because it hit me

WHAM

it is not that they would lock up a lone wheel, but it is that they were not

smart enough to lock up the bike, he only locked up the wheel 

upon further examination i laughed for about 20 minutes straight 

and took several pictures of the lone wheel locked to the bike rack 

what a sad sight 

Yep that is where it is SUPPOSED to be 

But finally after wondering about this huge station we found it! 

any guesses where we found it? 

Yep you got it 

in between platforms 10 and 11 don't ask me how that works because 

frankly i haven't got the faintest 

THE BEATLES MUSEUM (rather, the beatles STORE)

Sherlock Holmes Museum 

fun little traditional stops we went inside and enjoyed being in both places, however we didn't really go inside the museums because they cost money and we had heard they weren't all that great so we did not really go in to them we just chilled in the shops 

on the way home we decided to go and see the cricket playing courts and let me tell you ... after about 30 minutes of walking i was pleasantly surprised when the view was almost as good as the view we had at wimbledon... hard to believe i know

I tired to warn them that they were in our picture

i asked them to move, and i even tried to wait for them to leave

but all failed and here they are in my picture.  

and as you can see this is almost as good as the Wimbledon Wall 

that we saw but the let down is that there is actually a 

cricket related picture on this wall opposed to the 

"red brick" look at wimbledon...

 Behold Wimbledon

Flash back for those of you who do not remember 

We finished off the day with some of the classic "yes we are tourist" photos

Well of course there is two because you can't just take one 

tourist photo 

Here is a little laugh 

Found this in the British library gift shop 

P.S. this probably shouldn't be a P.S. but it is 

I went to the British library this day and i LOVED it 

this was by far one of my favorite places i have been 

i saw a lot of hand written drafts of authors such as 

jane austen, virginia wolf, and the bronte sisters

i also got to see some really old religious texts such as 

the codex Sinaiticus and the some of the original Gutenberg 

prints of the bible this was a major surprise because i wasn't

very interested in these things before i went but they had great

information there and it was extremely interesting 

I would HIGHLY recommend a visit to this exhibit if you 

are ever in LONDON

this post was not edited sorry if there are any mistakes it is not my fault 

ok well it is but still not my fault