Well we can’t leave out the second half of our summer travels. After leaving South Africa we took a direct flight over to London. We arrived in London in the late morning and then waited around for our bus to arrive which would take us to Bath where Jessi lives. (there is actually a street in bath named after me)
We spend the first day in Bath seeing the sights. We got to see Bath Abby, which was beautiful. The stain glass windows were breathtaking and the ceilings were extremly high and all the walls and pillers and the ceiling were intricately carved and decorated. We then maundered around the rest of the town, looked at an antique map shop (they had some great old maps...i would love to have maps on the wall in one room in my home some day), walked outside the Roman Baths, and visited the Royal Crescent (which was a must see for me since Johnny Depp owns one of the houses there. Who doesn’t want to be somewhere that Johnny Depp lives right?) Then what better way to celebrate having just walked by a Hollywood stars home then to see a movie, so we did (only Johnny Depp was not in the movie that we saw)
The next morning we saw Bath Spa University, Jessi's second home. Her classes were actually held in an old castle like watch tower. We got to climb up a somewhat dark, cool, dusty, spiderweb filled (therefore probably spider infested, though i didn't see any spiders) windy stair case to the roof and see out over all of Bath Spa's campus.
After all this walking around we were hunger so we had a great lunch at a pub near by where I got fish n’ chips (which was actually a whole half filet of fish breaded in one piece...by it was fabulous.) as we waited for our bus to arrive to take us back to town.
Jessi's home is a quaint little palce. Perfect size for her but a little cozy with three of us and all our luggage...but hey we're family so we didn't mind. After a few night at her place we headed out with Jessi to see the surrounding cities. We headed out to Ireland (i'm saving that for my next post however 'cause that was my favorite) and then over to London.
Only having one day in London made our site seeing jam packed. I did feel fairly comfortable on the underground after only one day, since we were getting on and off it about every hour. More cities should have transit like the London Underground it made commuting rather easy and simple. We managed to fit in some site seeing highlights like, the British Musium (the size of that place is unbelievable you need a whole week to see everything in the musium), Big Bend, Buckingham Palace and of course a show.
When I pictued getting to see a show in London I thought of all the classics like Les Miserables, Phantom of the Operah, or Sound of Music. But in order to intice Tyler to see a show with us we had to be creative. So we saw "We will Rock you" a show based on the music of Queen. Now I was a little sceptical at first but boy was it awesome. It really did "rock".
Though the story line could use a little help the music made the whole show. I was suprised at how much I enjoyed it, but who doesn't like Queen's musice right?
The trip was everything we had hoped for, though way to short. It wet my appitite to go back again some day and get to spend more time seeing the sights and more shows.
