Bath: Day 14

WE MADE IT TO LONDON!

Wow, I can't believe that two weeks has already come and gone!

Today we went to Stonehenge and Salisbury to see the cathedral, etc. My Dad warned me that Stonehenge was kind of lame and not worth the time, but the girls I was going to London with wanted to go so I couldn't bail on it and travel to London all by myself. So, I went.

...It's a pile of rocks with moss.

The highlight to my Stonehenge experience was the rabbit inside the circle of rocks. Not that you can get anywhere near them...but the rabbit can. I snapped some pictures of it anyway to prove I actually went. I guess it's cool to say I've seen it now, but really it isn't much to see. Between the hoards of asian beetles flying about, the ropes blocking you from going anywhere near the big stones, and the rude rush of people in a frenzy to take pictures...it was not a wonderful experience. However, we were only there for an hour so it wasn't that bad. An interesting tidbit of knowledge...this weekend is the Summer Solstice where all the Druid weirdos come out to do their pagan stuff there. We missed them by about a day! Drat.

After we traveled to Salisbury where we saw some really pretty churches. St. Thomas and Salisbury Cathedral are absolutely magnificent. One of the surviving copies of the Magna Carta is housed in the Cathedral and there are many important people buried there. Really some impressive history is housed there. It was weird to see tombstones as the floor of the church as well. I felt like anywhere I stepped would be dangerous for fear I'd be stepping on a grave stone. The architecture and the stained glass are breathtaking. I will be uploading those pictures tomorrow and post some up on the next blog. After we looked at all of this, we got to explore the town. Grabbed some lunch and we headed out to see all the little shops and the river. It was a very pretty day up until about 4.

Unfortunately, the bus driver was an hour and 15 minutes late in getting us back to Bath so the girls and I rushed our tushes off to get everything together, grab food and get to the train station. We got there with a half an hour to spare. The train ride went by super quickly as we were all excited to be going to London. The train was pretty nice- there were tv's for each seat, but you had to pay to use them. First class seating on the train is amazing! If I lived here, that's how I would travel for sure.

So after a 2 hour train ride into Paddington station, we hopped in a cab and got to the Dukes Hotel. It's very pretty and we are in prime location here. Very close to the Palace, Picidilly, the London Eye, etc. We weren't in the room very long, actually. We got here, dropped bags off, got changed and washed up and headed out. We wound up going to some club or another in Picidilly Square (which looks just like NY Times Square). It was a good time with the girls even if there were some mondo creeperinos. And they have these people stationed all over trying to get us to go to other clubs, handing out flyers for other clubs, wanting to escort us to other clubs. It got to the point where we'd either A. Flat out ignore them or B. Yell "NOT INTERESTED" in their face. We were at the one club for a couple hours, danced a bunch, and hung out and we were good to go.

We have to wake up early tomorrow to fit in everything we want to do so I best go to sleeps to have energy! Love you all.