So... I am a slacker blogger. I've never been a big writer lol. But I'm going to try and be better for the second half of my trip :) So an update: I am living in a little dorm style flat that's a few minutes walk from my lab, I have amazing flat mates, everyone in lab is soooo nice and I have gone on a few trips!!
So my first weekend here was my birthday and I was kinda nervous about potentially having nothing to do and no one to do anything with! But, I met lab people in the morning for some early morning drinks at a pub before a LFC game (I just stuck with oj lol) and then at night my flat mates took me out down town. It was fun and it was a good time to get to know my new flat mates. And the best part of the evening is that I got carded and I got a bday shot! So now I'm legal :) and at the clubs here I'm way over legal, they usually don't even bother carding me lol such polar opposite from gville.
The next weekend I went on a day trip to the Lake District (a pretty national park in the north of England). There are all these "walking trails" in the area it always cracks me up that they just call it "walking" and not hiking here-prbly because there are no mountains! So I actually didn't end up going on one of these trails, but I visited a castle and beautiful mansion! It's so crazy how there is so much history everywhere here!! I'll upload some pics!
So the next two weekends have been spent with my mom and dad. We went to London last weekend and saw a ton of amazing things like Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, and Bath. The Queen was at Windsor Castle!! The castle was crazy giant and it was like a museum with all of its giant portraits and cool treasures (although it was all prbly taken when countries were taken over by the British). I was really hoping to catch a glimpse of one the two princes lol. Stonhenge was alright. I was right by a highway, cold, rainy, and windy - not really the right mood. You will see in the pictures what I'm talking about. Bath was amazing and the streets were so beautiful and packed with people! There was this amazing shopping street, but of course the bus didn't stop there lol. Apparently some famous people lived there and some celebrities live there now. I am going to try and go back so I can really venture around the city!!!
Right now I am sitting on a hotel bed in Bruges (Belgium) watching Jerry Macguire. They don't really have many choices with only two stations in English. I feel like all I have done in Belgium is eat... frites(fries), waffles, gelato and chocolate. The waffles are pretty much cake made in the shape of a waffle on a griddle - really really rich and sweet! We went on the most boring city tour in Brussels today. It was a walking and bus tour of the city. We walked around for about 15 minutes and saw a hidden (on the locals know where it is) statue of little girl peeing -lovely- and people were actually posing next to it for pictures! Then we went on a bus and instead of being one that is accommodating for sightseeing it was a coach with tinted windows lol. I actually fell asleep lol. I can't imagine what the people in there car passing the bus thought of the tour with half the people on the bus sleeping. We literally had about 2msec in front of their palace before we passed it because we couldn't stop lol. It was like being held captive on this bus watching all the amazing sites go by. Luckily we got two 3min picture stops at two places lol. I say we're better off on foot! By late afternoon we were on a train to Bruges! Bruges is nice and I was picturing this picturesque little town with amazing buildings. Well it is picturesque and has some amazing buildings but is defiantly not undiscovered and it is not so little. We get in and the taxi has to fight the crowds to get us to our hotel. There had to have been thousands of people out on the street! We walked around and went into all of these cholatiers - gourmet chocolate shops. Luckily a few had samples :) Tomorrow is our buying gifts day and I'm sure we're going to be buying pounds of chocolate! It's late and I have another day in Bruges and Brussels ahead of me so I am going to sleep. I will be better about posting stuff now :)
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