Long Weekend

Friday we took a day trip to Greenwich. Took a riverboat down the Thames there, which took about an hour. River trips are great, you get a lot of good views of the city and its major attractions (the stuff of postcards) and as a bonus, I love the water, so that was great. Whilst there, we climbed the hill to the Greenwich Observatory, which is where GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is measured. Its on the prime meridian, so i took a picture standing with one foot in each hemisphere. Saw the first shop in the world (Longitude=.001 or something like that). We were so tired from that day that we took 2 hour naps when we got back and still went to bed early. Saturday Nick and I went to Stonehenge and Bath with our friend Pete, the bus driver who took us to York. It pays to make friends with "the UK's best coach driver/entertainer", as he let us on board for a 100% discount and tells us many interesting things, as he himself knows much of the countryside. That was a long, really rewarding day. Stonehenge is great and all, but you get there, take pictures for 15 minutes, stare for another 5, and then kind of wonder what to do. You have to see it, but only once. It was still worth it. Bath though, was what made the trip for me. Its beautiful architecture is unique as it is probably the only UK city to use that kind of limestone, which has a honey yellow tint to it and is gorgeous in the sunlight. Today a group of us went to Hillsong church again, which is more like a Christian rock concert with a message in the middle. Its loads of fun. Its actually tiring, singing that hard...and then today we ate lunch at a pub and had yorkshire pudding for the first time, which is basically like a wad of pancake batter stuck in the oven instead of fried up...pretty good but nothing special.

Sneak peak! : Going to Wales next weekend, and in two weeks going to Switzerland!!!