Week Two

Well this week was rather uneventful, so this will probably be a short post. We actually spent a good bit of time trying to catch up on thesis. This morning a few of us headed down to Weymouth, which is on the coast Southwest of London. It’s amazing here. We lucked out with the weather. We’ll be spending the weekend here in Weymouth, heading back to London Sunday afternoon just in time for the World Cup final, and then catching a train to Edinburgh, Scotland on Monday morning. Here is a quick rundown of the past week in London:

Monday, July 5^th, 2o1o

We arrived back into London around noon on Monday. We weren’t able to check into the hotel yet, so we grabbed some lunch and headed over to the Imperial War Museum. This was hands down my favorite museum that we have visited so far. We spent a few hours in the museum, and I still didn’t make it all the way through. I am probably going to go back our last week in London and try to get through the rest of the museum if we have time.

After the museum, we headed back to our dorms to check in and clean up. We ate dinner at a pub close to our dorms, and then went to check out the musical “Chicago.” It was really entertaining. I think we might get a chance to see “Wicked” our last week in London.

Tuesday, July 6^th, 2010

We met up around 9:30 and walked over to the British Museum. The Rosetta Stone is on display at this museum. I didn’t get a chance to look around too much, because I headed back to the dorms to work on my thesis for the rest of the afternoon and evening. This is another museum I will try to go back to if I have time at the end.

Wednesday, July 7^th, 2010

This was probably the busiest day of the week by far. We met up around 7:45 and hopped on a tour bus headed for Salisbury, Stonehenge, and Bath. We got a chance to see the Salisbury Cathedral. We then headed up to Stonehenge, which was basically a pile of rocks. We ended up our tour in Bath, which was my favorite by far. We only got a chance to spend a few hours there, but I wish we could have spent a few days. The Roman Baths are there, which we toured. We also walked around town for about 45 mins. It was graduation day for Bath University, so the whole town was relatively crowded. We got back into London late that evening. A few of us went to grab some dinner and were able to catch the last few minutes of the Spain vs. Germany game. I didn’t realize how much England hated Germany. Needless to say, they were very excited that Spain won. I heard the celebrations out my dorm window for most of the night and into the morning.

Nothing happened on Thursday, besides me locked in my dorm room all day working on thesis. LAME. Actually, it was much needed. They gave us the entire day to get some work done. As I said earlier, we headed down to the coast this morning. Kay’s family is here, and we will be doing a 14 mile hike along the coast in the morning. I’ll update with some pictures from the weekend on Sunday evening when I return back to London. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!