Man, I’m getting really behind on this blog! Last weekend was really relaxing; we did a lot of shopping! On Saturday we went to Camden Markets, which is the largest outdoor shopping market here in London. It was really neat, and there was a lot of great stuff for reasonable prices. My friend Nick Bigham arrived on Saturday as well. He is doing study abroad through MSU at Cambridge; it was nice to see him for the day.
On Sunday, the 11th, Hannah and I went to church at Westminster Abbey. So amazing! I can’t even begin to describe how beautiful the service was. We sat right by the boys/men’s choir, which was neat. We walked around a little bit after mass and then went shopping over by Hyde Park.
The week was short for us, we had class all morning-afternoon on Monday and then on Tuesday we went to Stonehenge, Florence Nightingale’s grave, and Embley park, one of the homes once owned by the Nightingale Family. The estate has now been turned into a private school, but some of the home has been preserved for groups like us that tour it. Tuesday Evening we had two new arrivals, my friend Paul Graf and my roommate’s friend Melissa from Spain where they just got done with their study abroad. Melissa, Emmalilly, and I went to go see Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom of the Opera that night. Even though I hadn’t seen Phantom, the play wasn’t hard to follow and it was still really great. For some reason, I can't find my pictures from our day trip...I'll post the pictures from it as soon as I find them.
On Wednesday I went to Bath for the day to see the Roman Bath’s and see Bath Abbey. The Bath’s were really neat; it’s so cool to see things that have been around since 80 AD. After I toured the Bath’s, I went to Bath Abbey where I did a tour of the church and climbed 212 steps up through the Bell Tower and onto the roof of the church, which overlooked the town. The town is surrounded by rolling hills and was so pretty to see from such a high view.
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