Hello everyone. How are you feeling this evening? Pregaming for the Packer domination? You know it's going to happen. The Steelers can't win again, my soul will die. Plus, a girl on my program today was asking around "where's Green Bay? Like what state?" I can't tell you how much I wanted to call her a doofus. Or something slightly worse. But I mean come on, Green Bay is like the Cape Cod of Wisconsin. Phew. Anyways, today was a very exciting field trip day. Yes, we have field trips because yes, we are awesome. We went to Salisbury, Lacock, and Stonehenge.
So, first off, we left at nine o'clock on a double decker bus (not the kind with an open top though). And despite the fact that I have been taking a double decker train since freshman year of highschool, I was hardcore excited to get on the top level of this bus. And it was just as awesome as I thought it would be (I pretended I was on the Knight Bus.) We drove about an hour to get to Stonehenge, before we got out and realized that it was windier than any of us had been expecting. It was really awesome seeing something that I've been seeing pictures of since grade school, and especially lovely to hear Andrew Butterworth say the word "nipple." Very amusing. But we went around taking really corny pictures holding up parts of Stonehenge and jumping in the air, like we were getting blown away. Then we were able to get some souvenirs (like a pin) or some hot chocolate.
Our next stop was Salisbury, where we got to visit the cathedral and the outdoor corridors of Hogwarts!! It was amazing, though no one else seemed to realize where we were. I talked to Beth, one of the British students who hangs out with us, and asked if people in England were as obsessive with Harry Potter as we (meaning me and my kind) in the states. She said definitely not, and she didn't even know that muggle Quidditch exists. So this means I will have to be especially careful with my crazy-obsessive-through-the-roof-whoa-calm-down-why-are-you-jumping-like-that attitude about Harry Potter. But it was awesome to be around such a historical site! (Wizards have been walking around there since the formation of Hogwarts!) I was also able to see one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta. AND there is one guy who is buried there that they suspect was poisoned, and when they moved his grave, they found a dead rat in his skull. A dead rat that died of arsenic poison... from eating that guy's brain, perhaps?? Just a pleasant little image for you. Here is a better image (I cannot resist):
Then we stopped for lunch at a little place called Pasty Presto or Presto Pasty and we all got traditional pasties, which are not that bad. We also passed by a canal that had about 20 swans just kickin it with a lot of ducks. Very amusing. We got back on the bus a little earlier than usual because it was raining, and we just talked with Katie and Beth (our two British friends) for a while. Waffling is a fun word.
Then we went to Lacock. (Yes, yes, I am aware of the funniness of this word--although I am not sure I was entirely aware funniness was a word. I thought I was making that one up. Huh.) Lacock is this awesome little town that looks like an old town. They actually have agreements not to modernize, just so that it can still be easily used for lots of old movies (like HARRY POTTER!!). The abbey holds a few of the classrooms and offices of Hogwarts (but it was closed on Sunday! We will have to go back), Harry's childhood home (as depicted in the first few movies, not the most recent, so it technically isn't Godric's Hollow), and the muggle house where Harry and Dumbledore pick up Slughorn. AWESOME. There were so many Harry Potter things to do and everyone wasn't freaking out like I was for some reason. We had to go and find Slughorn's house after dinner.
But dinner was an experience in itself. It was in the George Inn (I think) and it is the second oldest pub in all of England. It was built as a pub over six hundred years ago, and it still functions today. Although the room I was eating in used to be a mortician's workroom. You could see the slides where they kept the coffins and everything. It was added on later. Clearly. But we had chicken stuffed with stuffing and potatoes and vegetables and gravy and then apple raspberry crumble. I was stuffed. But overall, it was a great day filled with everything I love. Alright, I am now off to the superbowl, because that is happening around midnight over here. We'll see how long I last (Go Packers!). Happy Superbowl and , literally,
Hugs from Hogwarts.
L Pro
So, first off, we left at nine o'clock on a double decker bus (not the kind with an open top though). And despite the fact that I have been taking a double decker train since freshman year of highschool, I was hardcore excited to get on the top level of this bus. And it was just as awesome as I thought it would be (I pretended I was on the Knight Bus.) We drove about an hour to get to Stonehenge, before we got out and realized that it was windier than any of us had been expecting. It was really awesome seeing something that I've been seeing pictures of since grade school, and especially lovely to hear Andrew Butterworth say the word "nipple." Very amusing. But we went around taking really corny pictures holding up parts of Stonehenge and jumping in the air, like we were getting blown away. Then we were able to get some souvenirs (like a pin) or some hot chocolate.
Our next stop was Salisbury, where we got to visit the cathedral and the outdoor corridors of Hogwarts!! It was amazing, though no one else seemed to realize where we were. I talked to Beth, one of the British students who hangs out with us, and asked if people in England were as obsessive with Harry Potter as we (meaning me and my kind) in the states. She said definitely not, and she didn't even know that muggle Quidditch exists. So this means I will have to be especially careful with my crazy-obsessive-through-the-roof-whoa-calm-down-why-are-you-jumping-like-that attitude about Harry Potter. But it was awesome to be around such a historical site! (Wizards have been walking around there since the formation of Hogwarts!) I was also able to see one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta. AND there is one guy who is buried there that they suspect was poisoned, and when they moved his grave, they found a dead rat in his skull. A dead rat that died of arsenic poison... from eating that guy's brain, perhaps?? Just a pleasant little image for you. Here is a better image (I cannot resist):
Then we stopped for lunch at a little place called Pasty Presto or Presto Pasty and we all got traditional pasties, which are not that bad. We also passed by a canal that had about 20 swans just kickin it with a lot of ducks. Very amusing. We got back on the bus a little earlier than usual because it was raining, and we just talked with Katie and Beth (our two British friends) for a while. Waffling is a fun word.
Then we went to Lacock. (Yes, yes, I am aware of the funniness of this word--although I am not sure I was entirely aware funniness was a word. I thought I was making that one up. Huh.) Lacock is this awesome little town that looks like an old town. They actually have agreements not to modernize, just so that it can still be easily used for lots of old movies (like HARRY POTTER!!). The abbey holds a few of the classrooms and offices of Hogwarts (but it was closed on Sunday! We will have to go back), Harry's childhood home (as depicted in the first few movies, not the most recent, so it technically isn't Godric's Hollow), and the muggle house where Harry and Dumbledore pick up Slughorn. AWESOME. There were so many Harry Potter things to do and everyone wasn't freaking out like I was for some reason. We had to go and find Slughorn's house after dinner.
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| The house where harry was born! |
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| The house where they get Slughorn!! |
But dinner was an experience in itself. It was in the George Inn (I think) and it is the second oldest pub in all of England. It was built as a pub over six hundred years ago, and it still functions today. Although the room I was eating in used to be a mortician's workroom. You could see the slides where they kept the coffins and everything. It was added on later. Clearly. But we had chicken stuffed with stuffing and potatoes and vegetables and gravy and then apple raspberry crumble. I was stuffed. But overall, it was a great day filled with everything I love. Alright, I am now off to the superbowl, because that is happening around midnight over here. We'll see how long I last (Go Packers!). Happy Superbowl and , literally,
Hugs from Hogwarts.
L Pro
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