Hey ya'all, so I would have put this out yesterday [because I was doing more procrastination yesterday than I am doing today], but the freakin blogster thing wouldn't let me get on and type it. So here I am to tell you about my weekend [smile].
I ended my work week on Wed. evening, as usual. This week was a bit harder than the previous ones in the fact that I had to turn in two different papers on specific houses [but really, who am I kidding, the papers were only 1,000 words each, and relatively easy to finish up (smile)].
On Thursday, after Whit got out of class [10:30am], her, Andrew and I took a bus to a book sale off the river, afterwards we stopped for a spot of tea and then Andrew took off to do whatever, and Whit and I went to the Globe theatre for a tour. After our tour [which was really short and cost too much money], we jumped back on the bus to travel back home, grab a bite to eat and then hurry, hurry, hurry to change into our hot outfits [and Whitney had to shave her hairy legs:]. So we hurry and meet Robi downstairs and hopped the tube to see Chicago in the theatre.
We get to the theatre to find out there are no student prices, but the prices weren’t as bad as they could have been, so since we were all dressed up we went anyway. It was really cool, not as “wow” as it should have been, perhaps, but neat, none-the-less.
On Friday, Beth and Jill came in, but because of a fieldtrip I was required to take with my class, I left Whit to meet them at the station. As it turned out, there were five of us from the class walking together to Victoria bus station and actually ran into them walking back to the tube. So I got to see them after all [smile].
The fieldtrip was unbelievable. We were to meet at the bus station before 2:30 so the class could purchase a group ticket together and save some money. But at 2:45 when there was still only five of us, and we’d sent one of our members to look for others, we decided to go on and buy our tickets. But when we got inside we found a long, long queue [line] leading up to the attendants. This mostly nixed our bus idea, seeing that the last bus left at 3 and we still had at least 20 min. to wait in the line. So, we put up the idea of renting a vehicle and just road trippin it. Our professor thinks for a min. and says, are you all up for it? I’m like, of coarse we are! There are two girls there that I didn’t know very well and they were giving each other the “oh my goodness, are we really up for this?” look….but they were like “what the heck!”.
So we travel to rent a mini-van and an hour and a half later, squished into the standard vehicle with the crazy professor driver, we are on our way. That night we made it to the hostel [after 2 freakin hours of traffic just getting out of London!], and found a place to eat, pizza of coarse.
The next day, Saturday, we went to Norwich and visited and talked about the Norwich Cathedral and the Norwich Castle. Then we went to Blicking Hall in Norfolk for a tour around it. It was pretty impressive, but owned by the National Trust, so our professor couldn’t really talk about anything while we were inside.
On Sunday we got up and travelled to Holkham Hall and then to Houghton Hall, where we got two personal tours of the houses because their open season is now closed. Both houses were absolutely amazing. After that we were in the car again to travel back to London [about 4 hours].
Coming back to find Jill, Beth and Whit up in my room was so great! We went out to eat some dinner and then got some great ice cream then homeward to rest and relax before Monday when I started yet another paper [smile].
And tomorrow we’re going to VENICE!!! How cool is that?! Okay, I’m off to find some lunch.
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*maike rinaye*
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PropertyId=49
http://www.holkham.co.uk/
http://www.houghtonhall.com/htmlfiles/1024index.htm
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