Wicked, Stonehenge, Leeds, and More!

What a fun weekend!

It started Thursday night when I went to see the show Wicked. It was really cool, and the woman who played Elphaba was fantastic. I still have some of the songs stuck in my head. I would definitely love to see it in New York sometime.

On Friday I went on a bus trip with some other AIU students to Stonehenge and the town of Salisbury. Stonehenge was interesting, but it was raining and windy when we were there so we only stared at the rocks for about 25 minutes and then left. It was cool to hear about the mystery of the stones and the theories that people have come up with for why they are there. After Stonehenge we went to a town called Salisbury and got lunch in a pub. We also got to see the tallest mid evil Cathedral in the world. It was built in 1092 and had a gorgeous Gothic style of architecture. There were all kinds of tombs inside of Bishops and even Knights. It also held one of the 4 remaining copies of the Magna Carta. I think this Cathedral is my favorite place I have been so far. Unfortunately, my camera was not working that day, so I just took some pics of it from my friend's facebook.

Saturday was another bus trip with AIU! We went to Leeds Castle and Rochester. Leeds was just what anyone would picture a Hollywood-like castle to be. It had a mote, drawbridge, and flags flying from the top. It was built in 1119 and housed many royal women such as King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon. In this picture are four of my roommates (from the left) Faith, Ashley, Lindsay, Alyssa, and Me all in front of the castle. Also on the castle grounds was a maze, which we got lost in for a long time, but eventually made our way out, haha. After Leeds we went to the town of Rochester where Charles Dickens grew up. There was also another castle that we did not go in and another cathedral that was also very gorgeous. We ate fish and chips at a small pub there as well. When we got home that night we were all pretty exhausted, but we went out to a pub around the corner anyway. It was fun to sit around, listen to music, and talk for a while. When the pub closed and we left it was pouring down raining, so we all got pretty wet, haha.

On Sunday Jen, Hannah, and I got up early and went to church at Westminster Cathedral. At the service was an amazing boy's choir who sang all of the songs in Latin. The entire service was very ethereal. After that Ashely, Lindsay, and I went to Trafalgar Square, which is a beautiful area of the city where the National Museum is. There we walked around, and Lindsay and I used our film cameras to take some pictures for our photography class's. After that, we went home and then some of us decided to go to a movie theater across town where the new movie "Revolutionary Road" was premiering in London. Our plan was to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet walk down the red carpet into the theater, haha, but by the time we got there (2 hours before Leo) it was already too packed with fans. We ended up getting Ben and Jerry's ice cream instead, which was way more fun anyway. It was the perfect end to busy, but awesome weekend!