DAY 9.

BATH.

Today we went to the Roman Baths in Bath and we also went to the Fashion Museum there. I loved both!!! We took an hour and a half train ride from London and spent the whole day walking around exploring Bath. It was such a beautiful and green area with some great shopping and amazing street entertainment. We also saw a wedding at the Abbey Tower Cathedral, I love how everyone wears crazy hats to weddings as a symbol of celebration. We creeped on their wedding and snapped a few shots.

Me and my girlies just arriving in Bath

Behind us is Abbey Cathedral

The Roman Baths

I thought this was funny... they were notes written to the Gods the people would toss in the the fountain to curse the one that "stole" from them.

Just about to take a quick dip!

Yup... just being Santa Clause for the children

duhhhh

this man let me carve some of his stone... he said I was a natural :)

these men were saying the evolution wasn't from monkeys.... they were from butterflies, they are much prettier anyway.

just pretending to be a mod. 

Some of the royal wedding dresses dating all they way back to the 1800's

Phil was looking so good in his corset 

This is at the fashion museum.. they also feature a designer that won "Dress of the Year"

I believe this is from the 60's

just trying on some hottie hats!

Pay attention to this guys!!! It's the new fashion for 2011 and it's all over the UK!!

Oh hey... just hanging out in this indent thing. 

day 8.

BRITISH MUSEUM & THE SIR JOHN SOANE MUSEUM.

Well let's just say... the British Museum is HUGE!!! It took about 2 hours to get through half of it. But it was fun to see all sorts of history :) When you first walk in, it seems like any other museum, but as you walk in further it opens up into this huge open space giving off the feeling of being outside. The ceiling was all glass and then it circled around and branched off into different historical sections. We tried on some sweet masks at the gift shop and sketched the columns outside. Afterwards the museum we did a little shopping. Everybody here is so fashionable!!! I feel like I don't have any fashion sense when I walk around here... I need to be more like them!!

British Museum

Inside

lookin' flyy in our masks

a gold ship!

I wish I could have all this gold!!!

the inside of the British Museum

on the steps :)

day 7.

BLENHEIM PALACE & OXFORD.
We started the morning off on a little train ride to Oxford, road a double-decker bus, got flipped off by an angry couple on the street.. because some people in our group were staring at them, and then we walked to Blenheim Palace, which was beautiful!! We had a walking tour of the palace, unfortunately we weren't allowed to take any pictures inside (but I snuck 2.. oops) After the tour, we were able to explore the gardens and the 100's of acres they owned. It was very windy and cold that morning and it had finally began to warm up a bit, so we wandered throughout the rose garden, and some pretty fields of flowers, we found a secret garden and did cart-wheels in the grassy field in front of the palace. It was an adventure!

This was a real life milk delivery at Blenheim.. I just happened to look over and see this perfect little set up. As you can see the receipt was slipped in between the milk bottles. So cute!

I snuck a pic of this room... we weren't supposed to take pictures, so it's a little blurry.

one of the statues in the cathedral area

oh yeahh cool kids right here.

absolutely gorgeous!!!

just being one with the statue

cool kids. 

just hanging out in the secret garden

we went to Oxford for lunch and did a little shopping the the cute shops around. We also had a scary experience with a creepy bum that followed us into a store! Don't worry, security was all over it :)

hanging out in a cool pub for lunch!

Blenheim... you did me well :)

day 6.

Okay... I have been really behind on my posts, I do apologize!! But today we started the day off at 6:40am and had a jam packed day. We took the tube to the train station and took a train to Salisbury to see Salisbury Cathedral, which has the tallest church spire in the UK. It was beautiful and the architecture was amazing! The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258. It also contains the oldest working clock in the world! This Cathedral is about 753 years old and we had the opportunity to climb all 355 steps the the top of the spire and see the spectacular view from the top! It was amazing.

Last but not least we went to Stone Henge! It is basically exactly like the picture.. nothing too exciting, except for our mad acrobatic skills! Oh! And we had some pretty funny taxi drivers take us up there. We were trying to get our taxi driver talk with an American accent, he had a really hard time imitating us.But he said he liked our accent and said it was always a treat when Americans come to visit :) His dad was one of the other taxi drivers and tried to embarrass him the whole time in front of him. He said that I "fancied his son" haha. It was a good time :)

But back to the history of Stonehenge... It was built between 3100 - 1100 BCE. The circle was aligned with the midsummer sunrise, the midwinter sunset, and the most southerly rising and northerly setting of the moon. The ground plan and structural engineering of Stonehenge incorporate sophisticated mathematical and geometrical understandings on the part of it's builders. There were also two types of stones used in its construction: the 'bluestones' (weighing as much as 4 tons and brought from 240 miles away!!) and the Sarsen stones (averaging 18 feet in height and 25 tons in weight)!!! This is quite a remarkable setting.

day 5.

This morning when I woke up and looked out the window, I was pretty sad because it was raining outside! But it ended up being a really fun and eventful day. We went to Burghley House in Stamford and checked out the estate. This is where Pride & Prejudice and other English movies were filmed. It was an amazing estate, and they had a very unique and fun garden we were able to roam around in. Afterwards we went to a little town nearby and had a lot of fun playing in the rain and just getting soaked! Darrin (my professor, the one on the top left) was cracking me up! We all loved the jumping pictures.

We got some biscuits and lemon ginger tea at Burghley House. It was quite scrumptious!

If you were curious as to what Darrin and I were doing in the Garden. we were just having a little a stare off... it's normal.