Day 8~
Yesterday Andrew, Padraig, Liz, and I all went to the Westminster Abbey service to hear the choir boys. It costs 16 pounds to get into the Abbey when a service is not going on. Who in their right mind would pay that much to go into a church?! NO WAY!!! So we went to a service, and got in for free :-) Beat the system!!! Throughout the entire Abbey, there are many people who are buried underneath the the floor, and it says who is buried under there. Well, while we were waiting to go into the main chapel area, Liz was unknowingly standing on Charles Darwin, thinker (father according to Liz who is yelling at me to put father. I like thinker better!) of evolution. This is funny because she is obsessed with him, and is studying his work as a masters student.
After the service, we said our goodbyes to Padraig and I took him to the train station. It was so wonderful to see him while I was here.
Leonardo Da Vinci is a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, and many other things. The National Gallery of Brittan, has collected all of the paintings, drawings, scetches, of all of Da Vinci's works. There were over a 100 of them collected into one area, and you had to have tickets and a reservation to go see it. It was wonderful to see all the works, and to see his detail into everything. All of them were the original works, and not copies, which made it even better!
Then it was time for Andrew to set off back to the USA. It was also really great to see Andrew while he was on his way home. Who goes out of their way to come see people that they love, Double H people too, and that is excatly what Padraig and Andrew did. They are wonderful people, and I can't wait to see them again soon!
Liz and I got take away food and came back to the flat, ate, and went to bed. We were exhausted!
To be continued....
Day 9 ~
Today I was a grad student, in the anthropology student! Liz had class and an exam today, so I went with her to her University to sit in.
Well...being a grad student didn't last long...her class was cancelled. So instead we went to the cafe on campus and just chatted about stuff for a long time! It was nice being able to sit and chat about things
We had lunch at a little pub and I got to eat a traditional meat pie (steak and ale pie) - which are fantastic...YUM!!!! Then I all of a sudden became super tired, and wanted to go back to the flat and take a nap while Liz was in her test...so I did! God being a grad student is so hard!!!!
I finally got to meet Chris (Liz's good friend over here) today! He seems like a really sweet guy, who genually cares about others. I felt bad for the poor guy because he has been up for almost 4 days with about 4 hours of sleep writing papers that were all due today! Liz and I thought he was drunk, but he was acutally just so tired that he seemed like he was! Sounds all too familiar with me!
Tonight was my belated birthday present and dinner, which was all French based. We went to a little French restaurant and it was fantastic! I couldn't believe how fresh and wonderful it tasted, it tasted just like France! YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then my favorite part of the night came...Les Miserables. Liz got us tickets to see it months ago, and we finally were able to go see it. It's my favorite show, and I love everything about the show; the music, the staging, the costumes, everything! I was so happy that I got to share that show with Liz, cause she had never seen it before. It is such a powerful show, that just has so much meaning and depth to every character and every line of the songs. Ughhh love it!!!!!
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