On Saturday Megan, Liz, and I went to a
football match! We even bought Fulham scarves to support the home team.
Unfortunately, they did not arrive until after the match, oh well. Fulham was
the team expected to win being number 2 in the line up and going up against
team number 12. The field was just a tube, bus, and a jump
away. We weren’t exactly sure how to get there but there was enough of a crowd
headed to the field that we could follow. It was an exciting, high scoring game.
But, much to the fans dismay Fulham lost 4 to 2. I personally was not extremely
upset, not being all too invested in either team.
We decided to take a couple of day trips
before leaving again for the main land. An area of London called Greenwich was
our first. On Sundays there is a market featuring handmade goods and amazing
food, so we went on Sunday. The other appeal of Greenwich is the Prime
Meridian. It is quite the tourist site located at the top of a fairly steep
hill with an amazing view of the area. My three closest friends from this
semester and I realized that we did not have a good picture of the four of us,
so we were a bit hopeful to get a good one of all of us straddling the Prime
meridian. But we were in a long queue of people taking quick pictures and we
were going to have to ask someone queuing behind us to take the picture so I
wasn’t sure how great it would turn out. To my pleasant surprise we got a great
picture! We were all happy with it.
On Monday we took a day trip to Brighton,
which is located on the southern coast of England. We decided to wait until it
got warm and luckily had a beautiful day because the appeal of Brighton is the
beach. We laid in the sun on coast made of stones for a couple of hours, and
like usual at the beach, I got sun burned. There was a beautiful pier on the
beach with some carnival rides at the end of it.
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| As you can see it wasn't quite warm enough for a beach day but plenty of people were in bathing suits! |
The day was wonderful walking around in the
warm sun. Then it ended and we were back to fitting in all of the touristy
things we could before heading back to the mainland for a few weeks. We headed
to St. Paul’s Cathedral, a site we’d talked about visiting since the first week
of being in London. We climbed the 500 some stairs to the top for an amazing
view of our city.
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| Our view from the top of St. Peter's |
That same day Liz and I headed over to the
London Tower and took a guided tour. The tour guide was great, complete with
costume. We got to see the crowned jewels of England, as well as walk along the
walls surrounding the tower.
One of our last hurrahs was to see another
musical. We tried to go to The Book of Mormon but the day tickets can
only be obtained via a lottery so we entered but did not get the tickets. We
were on our way to see Once, a movie turned
into a musical, when we saw the theatre sign for Les Miserables. Liz and I had
never seen the musical and Grace absolutely loves it so we decided to see it.
It was phenomenal. The singing was just amazing and the acting was spot on. The
one character we didn’t like so well was the older Cosette. Her facial
expressions were a bit off. But Fontine made up for it. She was absolutely
amazing.
Friday May 10th, my birthday, we
left for our Eurotrip part 2. We visited 8 cities in 3 ½ weeks. More about that
trip to come!
Have a wonderfully, amazing day, cheers!
~Laura
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