Mayhem

Yeah, so very sorry that it has taken me so long to post. Live has just been absolutely crazy for the last month. First the trip, then packing to move, then getting sick,then moving. Yeah, I'm pretty worn out. Anyway...

I'm sure you all want to hear about the England trip. I'm going to have to condense it in a huge way because we did A LOT of stuff. The first day was pretty short because I didn't sleep on the plane and eventually just pooped out and decided to go to bed. I did at least get to eat fish and chips, though. The next day was much better. We went to the National Gallery. That was cool, there were a lot of pieces that I remembered from my art history classes. After that we had lunch at a pub, then we went to Oxford Street, the most concentrated retail area in the world. It was...interesting. A LOT of people. After that we went to the theater to pick up our tickets for Equus then went back to the hostel to shower. Once I was clean, we went to TGIFriday's for dinner with was the worst dining experience we had over there and then made our way to the theater. The play was incredible. It only took me about two minutes to get past my, "OMG that's Daniel Radcliffe like 15 feet away from me." feeling. Then I was just enamored with the play. The acting was great. I'm not being biased because Writer thought so too. We tried unsuccessfully for an autograph afterwards, but we'll revisit that later.







The next day we went on the Severn Valley Railway, which is where they got the train for Chronicles of Narnia. It was really cool. We spent half that day at a village called Bridgnorth which was really cool. It was on top of a hill and the views were incredible.







The day after that, we went to Oxford. We didn't get to enjoy it to it's full extent because a lot of the university was closed to visitors due to exams and degree ceremonies. We still got to go in the Eagle and Child where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien hung out as well as the Christ Church Great Hall and Cathedral. Upon arriving back in London, we went to King's Cross station (Harry Potter) and ate at McDonald's then decided to give the autograph thing another shot. We didn't succeed at the autograph, but I did get a picture.




The following day was spent in Bath. We got to go in the Roman Baths which was pretty cool. Spent some time in a park along the River Avon. And went through the city centre shopping area.







Next we went to Reading which is where Writer did her study abroad last year. We ate at a pub, hung out in a music store, went to the shopping mall, then ate at a Japanese cafeteria restaurant called Wagamama. It was pretty cool.







We spent the last two days in London. The first of the two, we went to the Tower Bridge, the London Eye, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, the Camden Market, The Tate Britain Modern Art Museum, Green Park, Buckingham Palace, and Victoria Station.



The last day we started at the Tower of London, then to Westminster Abbey, then we ended up at Hyde Park which is where J.M. Barrie was inspired to write Peter Pan and was therefore used to film bits of Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp. We hung out there for about 3 hours just kind of enjoying the beautiful weather. So it was a good way to end the trip.



So that was the ultra-condensed version of the trip to England. Pictures will be coming soon.

Upon my return, I had to simultaneously get over the jet-lag and adjust to my new third shift schedule. It was rough. Even once I had had a few days to get used to it, I had to start packing and getting ready to move which didn't allow for much sleep.



When it came to last weekend when we got the keys to our new place, I got sick which caused us to push things back a little bit, but luckily we had a whole week before we had to get out of our old place. So even though I was sick, and exhausted, I was managing about 3 hours of sleep a day. It was one of the worst weeks I've ever had. I'm still trying to recover and probably will be for a while. The good news is, we're now in our new place. I absolutely love it. The location is great. About a 30 second drive to church...walking distance to the Greene. It's awesome. So that's what's been going on in my world. Sorry it took so long. now that things are starting to settle down and I have internet at home, I'll start blogging a little more regularly.



I hope you're all doing well!


God bless!



Pepto