tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91367977568715134032024-02-06T18:28:08.088-08:00Hannah's travel blogPulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-55817370170221978322008-04-07T06:50:00.000-07:002008-04-07T07:24:25.800-07:00Cambridge Trip<span style="color:#ccffff;">4/4/08<br /></span><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEW3FrPukUfYP1914RfjJN3k1Lvk84u3KTeAE4FYqlAxWqEop496e9jleqM4RLxLH9sgI94wB13hr3SnoLgJkHgcw30h5k5VO6i7qopb1LzM4nQVfHrSPAIzd657djflMWl2GbJ1ozz3g/s1600-h/Cambridge+015.jpg"><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186506830333236386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEW3FrPukUfYP1914RfjJN3k1Lvk84u3KTeAE4FYqlAxWqEop496e9jleqM4RLxLH9sgI94wB13hr3SnoLgJkHgcw30h5k5VO6i7qopb1LzM4nQVfHrSPAIzd657djflMWl2GbJ1ozz3g/s320/Cambridge+015.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ccffff;"> We started off our day at 10:45 am when we took the train to the town of Cambridge. The day was beautiful and the sun was shining. When we first got off the train the town seemed really modern and we had to walk about 20 minutes before we hit one of the colleges. The buildings were so old and I honestly thought that this town was better then Oxford. They are both really different though. Oxford is a larger city/town. And Cambridge is alot smaller with more to see all compacted all together.<br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186506873282909394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1ETfUkrUyL_ulSOdCCOxOnZz6F63sIBEKQ2olp1iX7_pRidP17zvHOLrHBCmu2uW3Assnm2UEjMBNGN6Odhvh1i9YCXUhdFVoU45YVhLDpjzTW8Y3gPn9GQJtXKzr2FeHLX-Utao0cxH/s320/Cambridge+044.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186506886167811298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWehCuSH6BiPXENmNqqGG2onxFYnjFGaU4vywBFrn3_w27v88Jrcd5twrZR9kCEJ0dVNCvaas9fOHgSvvS4bPSHpQLfQA7HIZtEi9OXAZAZAXF5u7r0DcizrQkGwhN8bNcmI8rDQztHdDC/s320/Cambridge+081.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">We made our way to the center of the town and found the main river that flows through all of the old town of Cambridge. We decided that the best way to see the town would be to take a punting boat ride on the river. Many of you know what a gondola ride is in Italy, it is where there is the man on the back of the boat that stands and pushes the boat with a stick. Our tour guide was so funny and told us some great stories about the history of Cambridge and what students are like today. He told us about a student a few years ago that lived in one of the dormitories and when he went to take a test he looked on his contract for is dorm and it said that "a man must be given ail and cheese when he would take an exam." And obviously this rule was made hundreds of years ago but he thought that it would be funny to start enforcing that rule again. Well his teacher gave him his ail and cheese after a huge fuss and then after he took the test his teacher failed him, not because he did bad on his essay but because his teacher did a bit of homework of looking at the rights on the contract as well and what the boy forgot to read is that he must bring a shield and sword with him to class, and he didn't so the teacher failed him. We all laughed at that story. The tour took us to all of the colleges and the ride was about 45 minutes long. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186508071578785026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0KhLSe2hToysq4YxKYPmdKP4NPhhHaTqBNWeCQKoO-J_H9DvDd7SXaD9UXcchrjSxxp5jg2DPA-WrVagFrbG1syYpLCBGe8MSGvyVvHiDlxnqQ77f0tIBiP4DSGMCyPBj-hLObqoeiVqk/s320/Cambridge+085.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186508067283817714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzETrQW7RtcL-utabbSyY55UqKVaHTx5XHYirppWbSXnd2kVh44V6ffll1MLhHJXy_ITLVm-jPkvlzwhP-AIbHusm8PQXI6GwDxwd1v4Ukb4pHlf6tiZUoM22_X_3QmCzBpYsdd-lWMdc/s320/Cambridge+084.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186508075873752338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU4LkyhhgZY2YHxU2VIYCVxreo1x-4AFEPYu79xICDsfRvM_o26v2k4YRykhMBeuCAUqyARyZW31U6Kw05rWB6vxKDB_LZkienzBzsQNHlAz5LgxBseThlDxhBaQr3qlRmRiFFVfBHUY14/s320/Cambridge+112.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">After that we headed to some of the shops to get some souvenirs. Then we made a mad rush to the train station. That tends to be the story of our lives here. We always stay until the very last second in a place and then we end up running to the train. Well we missed our train but that was ok because the train runs ever half hour so that was good. Then when we got back to the center we decided that we should finish up on some home work but that is about our day in Cambridge, it was great!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186506864692974786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17iwRmjS64G9ZG8fS0ZdW5hC1wJxjgHMbNl0wAMTqQSL0jxko58yLeMDzPVuPHubytdyP2SVwqEDm20o3E-TOBFcrVMMXQMNkX7ScF6T2sNYQ12lKWAiLkO8HQf9QPJJ5ajjgSJBuQE-y/s320/Cambridge+052.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186506851808072882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yw_gFou3Nw2Q9MZ99uELNpMTNb-tv0dSb0Teao0CB5VXQjrZmYEAXcAVqCl2kmfmQZyPydY79xlDafSEaFODjOqKRGNhvgq2qFJi9Ek-b2mkcwj8TF_wRSWIVDpQeo1pCSYr8JEZ7acr/s320/Cambridge+028.jpg" border="0" /></span></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-64795276505187037332008-04-02T15:56:00.000-07:002008-04-02T16:32:51.668-07:00<span style="color:#ffcccc;">4/2/08<br /></span><div><div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Today we started off by getting up at 6 am for breakfast and heading out the door by 7:30 to catch the bus for our final and last away trip around England! It was a really sad thought and we all tried to not think about it. </span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184791209941816290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpFKoUsgIOHnOlG_hEmSv2KxJ4JU5qwhMvnbfsokgjvPAgpbBtvvhhTB_jWptYatVf6Zvsw3r3UHXGwhxyaXCrVr5pQ05G8QFf9wwd1qVw2cjjDmcNaT9Lv2raWdGiYAHt0XeXT4xsvGM/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+003.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184791218531750898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JxTWjAgakVpm_4NpPh6DjJ8GZtMnaUpSvGLl8R5G7V-WcViauIoY1xJCECVeClf1crP40eQ_RPiup7ZeWPJ0xWpx7_dxj_3F0YInx1Ep9YDumH97ffzepALDtMGaeOCnuZzpJU8NdWVk/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+008.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Our first stop was at Blenheim Palace where the duke of Blenheim still lives! Crazy huh, he lives in the far left side of the palace where they obviously didnt do tours there. But we got there around 9:30am and our tour didnt start until 10:30 so we had an hour to walk around the gardens and the cemetery. There was a really pretty lake with a monument on a hill side. We still dont know what the monument was for but it was still a really neat thing to see. </span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184791227121685506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomWrFkFwkR7nL1GGRtJl9RvxcG0xOf-UG49el2Wr9tbwn1DsdmECFo61f4XdKC4M8rcDwlLl5nl9XL9Qt7mTWCC2x15ZrvNDxFD632s4xsEWzIAA8dnzV3J_Hw3hXvqT2BfnEqsKAMv_7/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+012.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184791231416652818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIns2EEUsezcTEO8nTclsAdEE-87px2BcHQB-mDWyuaebB6Fc397j70pUaxzW9yv9xGDyjas0UTnWJXzRrC46bTEw0Dhe3a6xGmBVKJLcy2IYlvCZf903u-3vpwqj1JgStus6aDDBXzTOT/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+021.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">During the tour of the palace we learned alot of really neat things about Consuelo Vanderbilt, she married Charles the 9th duke of Blenheim who was completely broke at the time and if it werent for her money the Blenheim palace would not be in existence. She was forced into her marriage and was in love with some one else way before she even married Charles, but her mother threatened her that if she ever married the man that she was in love with that she would find him and kill him. She really Consuelo Vanderbilt had no choice but to be forced into a marriage. She had two children with Charles and there is a tapestry that hangs in the drawing room in the palace with the family sewn on it. She was a really pretty woman and I wish I could read more about her life, she seemed so interesting to me.</span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184791235711620130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAKdddgllEfJ_Jjtei3EPGVGCc0in4fajNuY2V2XM7uc5YELO9DKPOQLCz9UbQg9cZWLIwVVWxZJ1cWm4KcIyjhzh4jylY2lswMsXHEqVqMJRUBbTIHGRbuyUNxW9b91x-tM9v8TzDTayH/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+035.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184793177036837938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnw0y8CQmJvq4atLiFadna23I1KhZsVehbDoMgqSV13oJDg5v9qTxXgXGGPqL5Ym5KerAw3xyz6uHOldZsLoBFAIKGW_dxT-QwyFNr36xf6EMWaKSEJhe7c8VnkQzEDBIYckc8Tfh0qL_/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+045.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">After our tour we headed back out to the bus to go to Cotswald village. It was about an hour away. There was a little path way that we had to take to get to the main town and my professor said that the main part of town reminded him of Disneyland on main street. There were a bunch of people and alot of tourist shops. So my professor took us on a path way through the country side to this place called "Lower Slaughter." The is the complete opposite of what the place is actually like. As you can tell by the picture it is alot quieter then the main town and the houses are alot older and more picturesque. There were little streams with ducks swimming in them and we went passed the old mill where we bought some really good ice cream. The weather was perfect all day! The wind didnt blow at all and the sun came out every once in a while but it was never cold and we enjoyed every minute of it. </span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184793189921739842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqX_nO1c_WpbAA3Uxi6gb1hUQbi3on6PPAc3DlaO4jIezVoH_BZ201dm6Z1UzgCjEBlw3GYZ-riqzofynS45ZQj8fr8GOU1LnD_60fXv5z4fOIw9JFNjISNSo58mSXKGXVG-HHhlkG2uDw/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+046.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184793198511674450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicX6o-7m182xWEtm2IZWxVHW8w1ZL3cC-sSqVnNuADCXrJx0vskIrdrSC9l0YKu2CFqOaQ0YwiB9zlV8ddd9YJovpfcSIAIr6bGedI2WTlPNZrfJICEaXRwAotKpTxpjPEx761h3T6YQPZ/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+055.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184793211396576354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlmT8eK_K6WWoRjhwDfP0BiPkTEzeoM091vM57NGxWnIG7aYQakttFLWunuxjzBzwvC6ENqg5P9pr8C7jR2pUT9ozR5PrWnbMMoo1GzXdtCVhpQjPOJtd3SPW_6b4vARyZXM7ZpjChR1q/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+052.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184793215691543666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi0Ngzem-8NNXtcTCu-IhSKwewZH9I8S65F4K3LL5O9DGwGf1RVI26xWDGI5-d1mgmUcGGazAQm-Yh5_EHOHc3-nBI8G93q9oCv1tY6pMcr7E7GqVXhtqmlkJIhqU97VorUOuds3cmPivt/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+096.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">On the drive home most of us slept. My friend Anna fell asleep with her mouth open and I decided that it would be funny to take pictures of her with her mouth open. We were all laughing so hard. </span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184794465527026818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cCTwTE4fdQ90HyI7S25YKhYQgWFiLOoyaRx4uO60i9nJxttksZ5WTkr1Tem-9cheovRa3v_qRPLYJBgNJDxJeO1YYtmk4-rVamPcoLPZdfbLqm593t-BI19RhG_A3IPI07AzdBWSPkS0/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+121.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184794474116961426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTIC_9CElYYAYcHbfw-YbCdkr0WPmY2fs_iFJMISS2aW-towHb2qYbqMtEI3TEh-r-PmL2SdRhPxzakZsMKtmvbf1VQFn4RQJFuIpsyWOpPI_M6KgMlOiutfPPjUJr_q0NYi0hPUkOkOY9/s320/Blenheim+palace-Cotswalds+villages+122.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">When we got home our professors had pre ordered gourmet burgers for us from this place by our flat and they were amazing! I got this cranberry chicken burger and they were huge, most of us could only eat half because they were so big. But our fridge has been broken the past few days so its not like we could save our food and put it in the fridge. Hopefully that gets fixed soon, but the day went great and I am so sad that it was our last trip!</span></div></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-15705852990396290622008-04-02T15:30:00.000-07:002008-04-02T15:55:49.423-07:00Oxford v. Cambridge Football Game<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja1yZrowVJTzsl7ywxJHyxJVFOlIwB6WAQ1SYSF0oDTqAdwpThX1llvM2rRpEXNv5rcIWiCTFMel-tPrbG2hcGzgodLmApl9LAcwdXXlHjcEE6yHUxkyDPdWX1-3RcyP13RijzU_B-RDce/s1600-h/football+game-big+ben+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184784965059367858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja1yZrowVJTzsl7ywxJHyxJVFOlIwB6WAQ1SYSF0oDTqAdwpThX1llvM2rRpEXNv5rcIWiCTFMel-tPrbG2hcGzgodLmApl9LAcwdXXlHjcEE6yHUxkyDPdWX1-3RcyP13RijzU_B-RDce/s320/football+game-big+ben+001.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ffccff;">3/29/08<br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffccff;">Sorry, I was suppose to post these pictures a long time ago and I just havnt had the time this week. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffccff;">On saturday we got tickets to the Oxford v. Cambridge football game! The tickets were really cheap and we had to go to a real football game while we were in England so what better game then the two top univeristy rivals in England! Seeing as that we are huge Oxford fans we all decided to wear our Oxford t-shirts and I wore my sweat shirt. </span></div><span style="color:#ffccff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184784973649302466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8EjJJnz2WHForh9ugoTPeW6SGN9Hy4AVOljr9XWjBrYSfIdUTKWB3jf4xn3evZwvMFynS_wwc6kykbLOI-PnU2iDfj9GWZL5Sbr-X9GZZvEwxZDR_PFQL7W65tZZ3aHAPL7I99qesNCAw/s320/football+game-big+ben+007.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffccff;">The weather was really bad and rainy that day and it had been one of the coldest days that we have had in a long time, but we went to the game around 12pm and we got seats right up close to the grass (which we loved) but then the rain started to come in hard side ways and we got soaked so we had to move up higher into the building. But when Oxford scored their first goal we jumped up and started screaming and cheering and as we looked around us we realized that no one was cheering with us. Just when Cambridge scored their first goal. The entire crowd on our side stood up and cheered. We were on the WRONG side for Oxford! Every stared at us, even the cambridge guys with their powder blue blazer jackets on. (They were wearing vintage blazers from way back in the day) But it was pretty imbarrassing. Oh well we still didnt move and our favorite player for Oxford, Homer Sulliven, ran past our side of the stadium when we made him first goal so that was pretty exciting. </span></div><span style="color:#ffccff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184784982239237074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3KBqdqcrbOSr9WIezPsKzmiF_LWyI0S1FGymUxpPKzL6JdXXNsa_EXLtbTKxHeAJsTrucOcmHFaVLhMBQ9fH7RW38MVX9vCqw1MG67aHfOKRQELZPgVAiEKPmhYYUMFWAkKkxxIWFPM_/s320/football+game-big+ben+012.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffccff;">The game ended badly. Oxford lost and we were all pretty dissapointed...and very wet. A bunch of people wanted to go to the famous boat race against Cambridge and Oxford but it was so cold that I went home with some people (the majority of us left.) But from what I heard Oxford won the boat race!</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffccff;">The rest of my day included writing a 12 page paper for my Sociollogy class and bed. </span></div><br /><div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-25277926095855843712008-03-29T11:05:00.000-07:002008-03-29T11:51:43.818-07:00Another Week of Plays!!!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183231818985788274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2H8vw2CegyKbN3KGF8FhvB79zdgeNy-s5QE0XvabNu2ghaOhX2QQSo8m7J2eIz32W8P-r6DWdb2YWRIF6i4EYtYLe_Shyphenhyphen_oeKf-9fZRzFVX1mpJDXetsKpo3jTN0xgVLlG7neUxf7iEM/s320/plays+052.jpg" border="0" /><span style="color:#ffcccc;">3/29/08<br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">On Thursday night I had bought tickets for this show called "Into the Hoods," it was a really cool hip hop dance show based on the play "Into the woods." The dancers were amazing and they got the audience standing and dancing through out the show. Also when we first got there, paparazzi were everywhere out front because it was "Gala night" ( I think that is what it is called) but it was a fundraiser night for a bunch of British celebrities and so we got to be in a bunch of pictures in the the back ground, it was really cool! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183231806100886370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEfv5ymktTHD0ywm8Dcsx_PsWPaG1zJi2l8M4CaRBRE4omwMKiQj69ei-RNrLXIK298p2-MjHhhZrjgsz8t0XoH42u3ia0NgkP8I5m6S9xdWpHNDjA37Ryj5hGtARccMavbKRb5LB6Ic6/s320/plays+045.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">This has been a really eventful day. It started off with Tori Walters and I planning to go to Brighton for the day, but the rain got to be too much and we decided that we should just go another day. So we went out and got tickets to STOMP with Meg Conrnelius and Rocky Rane. We were so excited that we got tickets, because in London it is almost impossible to get tickets to anything on a Friday night. So as Tori and I are walking through Convent Garden looking in shops I see the theater sign for the play Chicago, and I told her how I really wanted to see it but no body would go with me. She told me that she would go with me because she really wanted to see it here. So we decided to go see what would be the best day to see it for a reasonable price and they said that they had a matinee at 4pm on the 4th row available for that same day. So we ended up buying the tickets and had to rush home to get ready for the two plays that we were going to see on the same day! We were both so excited, and in the rush of the excitement a few things started to go wring. Tori had bought an extra ticket for Anna Gordon because we thought that she might want to go, and she did but an hour after we told her that we had a ticket for her she told us that she didnt want to go any more and so we left it up to her to find someone to take the ticket. Tori was upset because if Anna didnt show up then Tori would be out $40. So that was kind of stressful but I knew that Anna would get someone to go. Then as we were on the tube going to Chicago I realized that we forgot to sign out of the book at my apartment. My professors are really strict about people signing in the book if you are going somewhere after 5pm and we had forgot so that was nerve racking too! It was alot of stuff just going wrong but in all honesty we didnt let it affect our amazing time at the play. </span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183231827575722882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqQF-2tl85cfVNo4Y_KFecRJCauDXIGO_U_sZqyLoydqRIa6kBF9yaml9Ki4tbwA5XrCjsTfx1tzIaGHjgPly4zmHKzkJhvAT6i9TjURnhjjq_xgWh4S1uVIZWKO1qOF5Sfo-a5WOgR0Sp/s320/plays+053.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">After Chicago we ran over to the theater for STOMP to meet Meg and Rocky and the mystery girl who took Anna's ticket. There were 5 minutes till the show started and the girls finally showed up. Erin was first. She told us that Rocky and Meg had left her so she was really confused why they werent there yet. And so we were really concerned that they were going to miss the show. Just as the lights dimmed I saw the girls running to their seats, everyone had made it!</span></div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183231849050559394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUzaY3UhyphenhyphenuizogdcB6C84AaIOM4KRSaoXzgXlFub_okJPJFhGhQDpuSunYAw2mmDCy6_H38fz3skFmEnGSOiRRAs4PZVczdaoC9KJdbXZDAcvsnPnpkSHImprG3oR3zajz5ECKuRHtU7a/s320/plays+073.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183231836165657490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqLeK_YYGIS-2BsRl8NyjIIj7GOtvMJkVLXzKHSXn0fZQZh_K3KWFwFFZCUlBV0K19w3x1CjI_nBEsprXOvGs75mQ711mpnVVBb1K54tlPdoZUdYpA-RqCbEKfhRUZAdWVCNwyvPh6YwP3/s320/plays+068.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Stomp was amazing, the people came out on stage with garbage cans, lighters, pipes, and sinks that they got the audience wet with! It was great. </span></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-24117354229823963022008-03-27T17:14:00.000-07:002008-03-27T18:12:25.145-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOCddkbtOkXOmm03NocOcbhbUH6dChtAPGSPOuJzMbnamMjInHq1Yiq4qcnRCJSmGHYLES7cg4YEbd4Wsf4wYx9tiCKpsPQQmzNvollTMhuUaTtrykjHooWbd_gyhgTENM1fjloNvTjl2c/s1600-h/Liverpool+014.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182586105012572946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOCddkbtOkXOmm03NocOcbhbUH6dChtAPGSPOuJzMbnamMjInHq1Yiq4qcnRCJSmGHYLES7cg4YEbd4Wsf4wYx9tiCKpsPQQmzNvollTMhuUaTtrykjHooWbd_gyhgTENM1fjloNvTjl2c/s320/Liverpool+014.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ccffff;">3/27/08<br />This was kind of a random trip because we were actually suppose to take a trip to Liverpool and Preston over a period of 4 days but we had some weather difficulties and the trip had to be canceled. Alot of people were really upset because this was a trip that alot of the students were planning on going to, but with a huge snow storm up north it just wasnt possible. So our professors gave us the option of going up to Liverpool for just the day on Wednesday. It would cost us 40 pounds to get there so the trip wasnt going to be cheap but I decided that there was just alot in Liverpool to see and what better way to spend the money then taking a trip there, after all it is the home to the Beatles!<br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">The trip started at 7am when our bus came to pick us up. There was only about 15 out of the 40 of us that went to Liverpool so the bus wasnt very big this time. We each got our own row so that was a nice bonus for the 4 hour ride that was ahead of us. Most of us slept the entire way and when we got to Liverpool alot of us were questioning whether it was the best thing to spend our money on. It was pouring down rain and the city looked really modern. Not like I expected it to be. We were all trying to think positive but it just wasnt working. Then when we got out of the bus we stopped next to this dock with boats all along it and this little yellow boat called "The Yellow Duck Marine" came right around the corner. It was so funny, it is one of those boats that can drive on land and then float right on the water. It reminded me of Alaska because there were so many tourist boats like that there. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">We made our first stop in this Beatles gift shop and this is where our day got so much better. Obviously you can see by the glasses that we are wearing. Once we saw those in the gift shop we knew that we had to have them for the day! </span></div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182586117897474850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB04MU3QOt9u18-CTQvluUlCFGP3sk_sksRDHBC348cglrfjxBUmp5OTJsbEaO_uie9sdrQWqG5pKN11WeNUq1ig3TW5VBLCFzhO-D1aiUnt9LZzlNzEeXbP4UlzpxlivekpIAG76rq65I/s320/Liverpool+015.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">After we got the glasses we went to the Merrytime Museum. It had a whole section for the ship the Titanic because most of the people working on the Titanic were from Liverpool and the ship the rescued the survivors was from Liverpool. The Titanic was also designed in Liverpool and I didnt know that so it was really interesting. And they had a bunch of Artifacts from the ship. The rest of the museum had a section for slavery and the Navy. It was kind of a random museum and I am not sure how all of these things play together but I learned alot. </span></div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182586126487409458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxKMzf5_TDV2KtJf-oyqgzyPM2e5nin9xLa-Ljq3lPVU85flTXiRvbZqsuSYrWqmrDAoVwz9qV8lLAx7WKLpWW2uPZ17WfGICpFGjmcNP8xPaUfwBQo3Bt63zusaSp6aPMzK2FmY3ru2q/s320/Liverpool+053.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">The sun started to clear up by this time so we decided to go find this brand new Beatles hotel that has taken 5 years to build. They had statues of them on top of the hotel. It was really cool to see, and on the way there we stopped at this really yummy doughnut stand. The guy made them right on the spot for us, they were the best ones I have every had. </span></div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182586147962245970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYDoUW6a2lkd6YrFHngWakD2fBfULP2xdFPDrKR2LASHjV1v7BSVWQk5B4iCxoeyLIF9MZ3kGSS4Q9FU0oJ88Dvz7PBkQ7vDV9PyNIEEAtrBmOGw6DMmbtK9iSOr2hB5zdJiLh3sLrXdoF/s320/Liverpool+071.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">We started to make our way down to the ferry where we got on and took a ride around to the other side of the city. It was about a 50 minute boat ride and really fun because we got <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">to</span> see more of Liverpool then we would have if we just stayed where all the tourist stuff was. </span></div><span style="color:#ccffff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182586135077344066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f7oY_OOwB8WDn9pHXItqgSR3uhhd8Kwsh3iA3ayO-JhU1Fqyb1aPnHRfFgKcins4xp4umfB2CQ1zMcJH9h7jkvmcFxZ9YkOEZIhqcsz4ZXZkLM1zHzmO1PYOIxAxNhlIzuSlOvQxwmJo/s320/Liverpool+057.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">After our boat ride we went to take pictures at the Queen Victoria monument where there were all of these gross construction workers so we didnt stay very long. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">We then headed back to the gift shop by our bus to pick up a few more things and some lunch and then we headed back to London for the rest of the day. It was a really great trip and I am so glad that I went!</span></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-59708834739247073812008-03-23T09:51:00.000-07:002008-03-23T11:18:03.977-07:00HAPPY EASTER!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181001442468975298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55ZGsDfuAlAd1rnxKw-rxh23DnGYzN_MuInLtL9-6Ra1DpDB91vdrt5XHyNrFbAPvlLeSZwhw5a5wmltccdDug_bKe2L81F8y-uaM_dybaLot92OeZ0wlqhJiyjPFpZWRCY7JPH6uOwmg/s200/Easter+001.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffffcc;">3/23/08</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffffcc;">Hello everyone and Happy Easter! Today was a freezing cold day in London and I think it was one of the coldest days I have had here so far. This morning when we went to church there were huge snow flakes falling everywhere and the tube station was closed on the district line (which is the one that we normally take to church). So we had to take the bus which wasn't to bad we just had to wake up a little earlier then we wanted to. Megan Perry and I both spoke today in our ward, it was a really good sacrament because two of the girls in my young women's have incredible voices and so they sang a song and then Megan and I had to speak after them which was really hard to follow because the whole congregation was in tears for the song that the girls were singing. Our building was freezing cold and the heater wasn't on in our classroom for young women's so the elders brought in heaters and we sat in a circle like it was a camp fire. For the past few weeks after church we have been trying our hardest to make it to the tram station on time because if we are even a second late to make the tram we have to wait another 20 minutes before another one comes. Last week we didn't even have time to buy our tickets for the tram and luckily they didn't check to see if any had their tickets. So today we ran to the tram station and there was one minute left before the tram came, once again we didn't have enough time to buy all four of our tickets so we just got on the tram and hoped that they wouldn't catch us again. Which they didn't so that was good. Tonight for dinner the Schuellers (the director of the program and his family) made us ham and cheesy potatoes, and then we had a raffle for a bunch of British chocolate! Every body got some thing but it was really fun. The only problem with today is that my professors have planned for us to do our religion class tonight, I have no idea why they would want to do that on Easter but I have to go to that and take a quiz. Mom I took a picture in front of my flat with my new skirt on. I remembered that we always take pictures in front of our house on Easter and Christmas so I did that for you. And here are a few pictures of my flat and kitchen duty that I had last week. Happy Easter everyone!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181001468238779106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdE1H6cGDJrBsno5NjOqzkpY1NAlLR6rZ68hJdhP9HjGpefscPCqJU47tl2Yha7ZdjWikNYAf7JPYn6h9izSx-VZ-l8BQbpg1bj5jVjGjSMF61aOkJ8gqef2b7CrBQ1Difwk9M_tWp5Ms/s200/Kitchen+crew+003.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181001455353877202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_F4c7NLU99s_mddSB0-woBTr8lNtbu2to7JELa0QoLF7p7ZL4-ca2l1Sd_Tb6t745hP4suVn69rwZw2EDJWFFaZu3vSOyltjz58tM7kcPaK4gFS433nFaLAjQ4SrPEy92mGuuOI8sE-j7/s200/Kitchen+crew+002.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181001472533746418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjETEj7YhRe88Mz6tz3dsgVerPa3mdUpgIcYZywwATx4cAwwpzusVHvMGkFXQ-MXJPilczXFJDomIZDJSzZam_YRjLtaHyKEk8FAYf2871KylVtQ4MrJurQOo5zQSQApbDzfg5MFmk0vNEA/s200/Kitchen+crew+009.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181001481123681026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzugaVIhNmISlCXZk_p29aBmUzta91MfJvU-_OrvMqXQgVPXGkYFSgRVuiHT8siSaMVPOEiqXXKBgxt9UAnRGQP_y7B7VaDY3_cOjFSWn3FBU6lzilz5LAoPlgHIt5Pv-6fAdseGuaqOfx/s200/Kitchen+crew+013.jpg" border="0" /></span></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-3791215542587566282008-03-22T15:16:00.000-07:002008-03-22T16:55:24.557-07:00West coast trip!<span style="color:#ff99ff;">3/22/08<br /></span><div><div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">I have to say that this was one of the most incredible trips I have taken around England. This last week was our trip to the west coast. We had origionally planned to take the trip last week but a hurricane left us making a few changes. Penzance was completely covered in water and so we did the first half of our trip last week, which was our trip to Bath, and we did Penzance this week. In the end it was the best thing that we changed our plans because the weather was fantastic the entire trip. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">We started our drive on wednesday morning at 5am! Anna Gordon and I have become bus buddies and we have finally got the perfect system down for these long bus rides. It is funny as look towards the back of the bus most everyone is sleeping sitting up with their mouths wide open and it is so funny that you cant help but take pictures of them. The drive was about 5 hours and we stopped at a small town called Cloverly. As the bus pulled up we couldnt see the town because in order to get there we had to walk down a hill to the beach. It was a cute little cottage town with pebble stone pathways and in order to get into the town you had to pay. There was an artist painting a picture of the ocean and part of the town and it just made the town that much more picturesc. </span></div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180708070432854530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8HU5JLZMeCYSUWIAMLX9mZmTmh0tAXTy9oB4EjU1iF5fDbIsOc8QMWKkkS2Q7doNzEYDm_NVHXD8_Nye2cCpmi41lORYHAOhEGz8IkWrnx39wgTE2dT272fei09t95u4h-BS-Bqu0c0-M/s200/West+Country+051.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180708079022789138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFpJzdkaRmeHlKyfeuSD6f635k0OaKTfTvtctCt3gMAv65SbvvaLvV1hY_ab_wRNZUiTHcyix0mPCiM2TDSlkcqe7F2hsLaV5uZAnSBaum3vGg6gLyL1ZPtwZVfiPLy7sEXhwHwpi5OQV/s200/West+Country+035.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180708066137887218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1SVSozdvfYNPNMxqAC4PAMRUM85rLof3jbDhgyhPoPEPgGNcj_NtjoElDQ8Pmmwr344_cJQhh7RFYWAgLk4jR45Y9blHGILCj7SQlUHMYzfyQWpCZBkfZcVH29OE7PHmNCHD7ZNU3rav/s200/West+Country+041.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180708057547952610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-CUQGp9OL8iwFroX-Ph3RLK0LZmVZiV34hsjRvtjWiLOmFKCNXm7ixvDAHCaaEtXlFUwu72WiFAvWGI_yCNxJLaWqqHwtzPMzrPi8uDMldUBJQiOUHum15TY_53bbT2IIyeth6Ac40QOb/s200/West+Country+027.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180708048958018002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdw24_aMIWPCcZcMjJ-zkPJIoELqDMkfQRV0nOjp7yKNMIRzIjVhbE8IgwXZy4jyrCVMRtj9ixHogpcOMZtUf4Yqq-VTsdaHANnAQYlBsz0zIOyJvQepolJT77wSJGWTfKdpr1J5gCSCnZ/s200/West+Country+015.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">Tintagel was the next stop on our list and it was a few hours away from Cloverly. Tintagel is on a hill that we had to hike to and there are remnants of a castle on top of this hill that over looks the ocean. They say that this is the castle where King Arthur was concieved. So now I can say that I have been to King Arthurs seat in Scotland and King Arthurs castle! The castle was no longer standing but there were ruins left of it, walls and an alter from the church that was in castle. The wind was so bad because we were so high up and right next to the ocean but it was still a great time. Some of the girls decided to do some Yoga on the cliffs over looking the ocean. That was funny to watch. </span></div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180709882909053474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMRg5-0-O25JkflcsEcx1gFZ3sNwv__vhISwZ_vwiMMUnIF9JuFe60GsskCxGBKwlQAYdJp22eobWXIscx4jZK8BunMXgxdeof7WxjPFgCuRR2vpohICPu3xjXhTmG-sNAdROZsEjl2mQ/s200/West+Country+087.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180709891498988082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHqTvpmZ18hvVBOI7crGG65S7jpxONJUsLV8a_tPN9VSvYT07yBGzMI_hjLRibA3uFHfXk1VOBGCPNPu2Cq0HQTGp64ZeXSmb38C316nizQp-7uYqyK9lfAfBthZDk4baXoA7LXxj-TMP/s200/West+Country+104.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">As we climbed back off the mountain we had some time left so we walked around in town. There were two things that our proffesors told us to get while we were on the west coast. They were Cornish Pasty's and Cornish clotted cream ice cream. A bunch of us found a cute little ice cream store and bought our first Clotted cream ice cream. They were deliscious! </span></div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180709900088922690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1ZYxKl0_SGeQuweIIpKBoQAg8QtbyyIAGJ0kxjrFQGsO0gW5CfjB7f7XHmsWzvxnUnBczmCgFuSFUqCF0sshHliMsasQK1aqYxNzZDVFzEoVgKkwdK5EpWzPoD5fgRET0afZsUf4IRNw/s200/West+Country+122.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After a long day of riding on the bus we finally made it to our hostel near Penzance. We were all put into the same groups for rooms that we had before in our last hostel in Bath so that was fun to be with the same girls again. We had made a quick stop at the grocery store before we got to our hostel so that we could buy some dinner. It was a really long day and all of us were pretty tired so we went to bed pretty early that night so that we could be ready for the next day.</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span> </div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180709904383890002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhG1HjwMf2uQLZMSOYNZL28xTXLNT2Pe8EZdlJruvKY1Xwc0d8h-vrI9p6bLO0U99cEZucTCa0mBcqPfnNrgDGa_ki_gfYA1_EUZ4jS4IeGpwOHsa6CR6dyGuutVFU0gETEG5vqTQkjY6/s200/West+Country+125.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712180716556914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOKj-GatPJQba4Hjk1xhApRQkUXUIiuv1gXTm_Au3tQE_uBVH8TiWPw_cozG5TrYVUTNyjmK9n6wvkyQ7Al48IEWg_QuAjx9-burlXMA2Co7uQRlzEQuGlvWnglF7oOi-SyrtovlhOhi-/s200/West+Country+149.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">That morning we had breakfast at the hostel, nothing fancy just cereal. We then headed out to Landsend. This is where our 6 mile hike started and we really didnt know what to expect. In the beginning our professors told us not to take our rain boots and I thought that they were crazy. I was determined to bring my boots because there was no way that I wanted to have muddy pants and shoes the whole trip. Well in the end I didnt bring my boots on the trip and I was glad because our hike just would not have been the same if I wore my rain boots hiking. </span></div><br /><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712197896426130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNrBB0fqQImcnFYfLsvJoUUq6Uyeua4SYoDfdH7OyiTk07I-D3IPgt7jYKdLsHOsdHefCq-M3ZxX4uOJd2EjRJ6S12lGYAdwr8R0LB4RXYKrHpnaDCvHpcmOh-850O-CNar0Nx03qEbFG/s200/West+Country+198.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180709908678857314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjccur6UpaAshQd531mBUfYd-zSHTDUWw1EExbw5W0X78qzjeVQbQ5AWy4BKhyphenhyphene45xjKzUl78blwGugJATTdGM4fc5nvwi2vZ841jBBBAQdk-unuZNtM5mmwQleEb2jUGTwdQ2_Cfn7d3lP/s200/West+Country+145.jpg" border="0" />The view was amazing when we started and there isnt a whole lot to say about our hike because it was great the whole time. The beaches looked like tey had never been touched by anyone, there was white sand that looked like pillows next to the water and the ocean water was brigh green and blus and completely clear next to the white sand. I never thought that the beaches in England would have looked like this. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712189306491522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEo1_oNK9oSxJhPpQvWXI4-shjrkQJUiyk-988zI3ZeBORd-pIl11pvN_lysv_oIgOu0qzQSPg-BsWrz0Bi50vChvylCTFGLKNW2ne-iMtkIPbfYzYVFwKxuAncCTaU_D5PURD9zr9hv-l/s200/West+Country+146.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After the hike we were pretty tired I will admit and extremely hungery so we went into the town of Landsend and bought some English candies for the ride to the Eden Project (Our next destination). </span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">In the beginning we were given two groups of travel that we could join. One group would be going to the town of St. Ives and the other to what is called "The Eden Project." I chose the Eden one. It is a project where they are trying to collect every type of plant in the world. Obviously they are just starting off but they have a large number of plants so far. The green houses are in these huge biomes and there are two of them. One biome is for Meditteranian plants an the other is for Rain forest plants. I was so glad that I chose the Eden project because it was really interesting to see the different things that they have collected and put together. The rain forest actually felt like you were there. They had water falls and banana trees and cocoa plants. It was great for about the first 45 min. and then it got so hot and our clothes started to stick to us. After our trip there we headed back to our hostel and got another great nights sleep.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712206486360738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZZXZagtRlkAwQK3d0Qx1SvbQM1RdxqETXnQQeo4jIqY7eDgimdX2jeXSxmhIG6viM7RJ8l9tR4u0wqqNpPrQseWSGUJ1onUGd34LTtt5jwq69W1cAsr1ztFB8QIr_DbTTQGBwVG1SFOth/s200/West+Country+215.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712210781328050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziSBUVlGOTILtGHW-KXzPz2Y3G_AtP7pNZFSGi_ifVvtnqLoztbMrQo4KBi9-u1CrfBl_C2JlrgVwaZqstsRddgrXXbOAh6XaGFLARWomjZ1PAC30uTfXKx_UACm0IV43z4KN1EPWC39w/s200/West+Country+228.jpg" border="0" />For our last day some of the students decided to go watch the sun rise on the ocean. We then ot ready for our long drive home. We had one more stop before we headed out and it was to Michaels Mount. The guard at the front told us that the wind was to bad so they closed the path way that led up to the castle on the top of the hill on the island but we could walk on the causeway if we wanted. Michaels Mount is a castle on a island and normally water surrounds it but when the tide is out from 10:30am to 12:30 pm people can just walk to the island on the sand so that is what we did. When we got to the island they had a few little shops that we could go through and we found this dog that was huge and he was just so funny blowing in the wind that we had to take a picture with him. His name was murphy. I bought a really pretty print of Penzance in a shop there and it was about lunch time and I hadnt had a Cornish Pasty yet so we went into this little restaurant and had pasty's. (They are like calzone shaped pot pies)<br /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After our trip to the island we headed back to the bus for a long ride home. My teacher Joe Ostraff has a son named Ethen that sat infront of us on the bus and he entertained us the entire way home. One of the girls on the bus, Tori got sick and had to lay on the floor for a while because she was so motion sick. The drive home was long and we were ready to be home in the end. It loved every minute of our trip though!</span></div></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-64504146753091655272008-03-15T12:30:00.000-07:002008-03-15T16:10:53.709-07:00Weekend trip to Stonehendge and more!<span style="color:#99ff99;">3/15/08</span><br /><span style="color:#99ff99;">WOW! This week has been filled to the max with sitting on a bus and site seeing to absolutely everywhere.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijteD8JNpwJJ0QVphF2G9XM2rC0CmT1UiMWNOUn8oXsOqei0rhJRUFjN3xX7Ex2U4uUzJXn8WIiuKoKv8XM-8yHwkjdpYRm7V91PRJdRSDeo9UYyyk3PaKUe8r3IarReSRh6Y_Gzbyfv-L/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+051.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178097225046213874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijteD8JNpwJJ0QVphF2G9XM2rC0CmT1UiMWNOUn8oXsOqei0rhJRUFjN3xX7Ex2U4uUzJXn8WIiuKoKv8XM-8yHwkjdpYRm7V91PRJdRSDeo9UYyyk3PaKUe8r3IarReSRh6Y_Gzbyfv-L/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+051.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#99ff99;"> We started our trip with breakfast at 7am and I was on kitchen crew so I had to help clean up before we headed out to the bus. We pre-made lunches and I made two sandwiches this time because I had no idea if we would be stopping for dinner. Most of the other people had that same idea in mind. So after we packed our lunches we headed out to the bus. Anna Gordon and I sat together. This was great because the majority of the time on the bus we fell asleep and we were able to sleep on each other during the ride. The only complaint that I had about our bus ride was that the driver made a comment for everything that we passed and the speakers were so loud that you couldn't block him out with music on your head phones. Alot of the girls started quote books on the bus for the comments that he would say because he was so random with what he said. One of the things that he said was "We as humans do not own the road... the ponies do, so please stay out of their way." How random is that. It had nothing to do with what we were looking at out side. But that is how the entire drive was.<br /><br /></span><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3dnWlIgM9cHctb0bOynZTmpIudUoN0DDdrUy_WhB6SNg0zxtxqWocN2n2HiSAGJELKiME9Y0ILKHULXrheEzw6mTEWj3b-tuRdSrL4tzzNdncFjfXSJ1GnCPCsMik-nV_Qkaex0tBKpb/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+044.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178097216456279266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3dnWlIgM9cHctb0bOynZTmpIudUoN0DDdrUy_WhB6SNg0zxtxqWocN2n2HiSAGJELKiME9Y0ILKHULXrheEzw6mTEWj3b-tuRdSrL4tzzNdncFjfXSJ1GnCPCsMik-nV_Qkaex0tBKpb/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+044.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnehCqO4ssLA-Ex5wcH-rWMZCNAwpjMHkBueVbi7O0r44Aw9e0Np0pPX8VkBg5OulHhXWVNDGmmJ4m5I8X8gWtZ-sY24Sv4W-Dq4hOGlXh5yRbilnFcne3DV_AgazkpXACL34IHRxNuuND/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+043.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178097203571377362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnehCqO4ssLA-Ex5wcH-rWMZCNAwpjMHkBueVbi7O0r44Aw9e0Np0pPX8VkBg5OulHhXWVNDGmmJ4m5I8X8gWtZ-sY24Sv4W-Dq4hOGlXh5yRbilnFcne3DV_AgazkpXACL34IHRxNuuND/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+043.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>We started the trip with a 2 hour drive to Bath. This is where the Roman Baths were and we got to take an audio tour through them. They even sold warm Bath water for you to drink. After the tour we went to this milk shake shop called "Shake-Away" They are so good, I got a hot chocolate and they even served hot milkshakes. It was just a fun treat to get before we had to get back on the bus for another two hours. </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oQIxjAna2nlXvnQMgIxtHug7QyWnwrlFBUw8o33LLW2wsADrJEy03xPLawx1K8nfv0Ube2WCF_x1jpSsnipkpWKUsTfw_S-0tSzwFKXQ1037EHCbE2u7hA9_mOhACXG82iLpNLCEuWMo/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+082.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178097237931115794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oQIxjAna2nlXvnQMgIxtHug7QyWnwrlFBUw8o33LLW2wsADrJEy03xPLawx1K8nfv0Ube2WCF_x1jpSsnipkpWKUsTfw_S-0tSzwFKXQ1037EHCbE2u7hA9_mOhACXG82iLpNLCEuWMo/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+082.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>After another 2 hours we went to the Moor (Large rock).</span><span style="color:#99ff99;"> It looked exactly like it would have been off of Lord of the Rings.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cTfkx5VJjy_5EcKmPQxsjkBuOIbXUakCFtK0DSQNuIhyym8phX1Gex16ooElrdSRgbeEQ6865JtrDInjh0kXgRQ1J61zf7kSq47ZxiTVv6voav1I7OE8C_eG3FQBpdXjvQ7xO4a4y_zu/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+071.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178103676087092562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cTfkx5VJjy_5EcKmPQxsjkBuOIbXUakCFtK0DSQNuIhyym8phX1Gex16ooElrdSRgbeEQ6865JtrDInjh0kXgRQ1J61zf7kSq47ZxiTVv6voav1I7OE8C_eG3FQBpdXjvQ7xO4a4y_zu/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+071.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#99ff99;"> </span></div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhIhcWS1Mj5yXAd5dyE0AVov956bavLqAVdqzHMBrIHvlHUf6xFIIxwPOUd7yyNqGRqsAdNLlvS__NXWqBm20yxUiGZm45XfI2loHUB-wdjT_473EfUx_l3KAQ9ihCHjaBEX2J76lVADw/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+057.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178097229341181186" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhIhcWS1Mj5yXAd5dyE0AVov956bavLqAVdqzHMBrIHvlHUf6xFIIxwPOUd7yyNqGRqsAdNLlvS__NXWqBm20yxUiGZm45XfI2loHUB-wdjT_473EfUx_l3KAQ9ihCHjaBEX2J76lVADw/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+057.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>There were also these wild ponies when we got off and we took a bunch of pictures with them. One of them charged after my friend Anna when she went to take a picture with it, the ears pinned back and it started chasing after.</span><span style="color:#99ff99;"> I have never seen her so scared for her life. The view was amazing from the top and it was a great time for us to stretch our legs before we headed to Exeter where our hostel was.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;">Well I can now say that I have had my first taste of Alcohol. Yes I know what you are all thinking. Well it was exactly that. We checked in and then we ordered pizza. My professors told the guy at the hostel that they wanted to order drinks but Non Alcoholic. So when the drinks came out there was a bunch of orange soda and lemonade and I got the elder flower. But before I got the elder flower I got the orange soda. On the front of the bottle it said that it contained Alcohol in extremely fine print and it was so funny because most of our group had already finished theirs. My professors about died and tried to get everyone to stop drinking. After we got Pizza we went back to our room and we all talked for a long time and went to sleep because we still had a big day ahead of us for the next day. It was really hard to sleep that night also because the heater was up on high and we couldn't figure out how to turn it down so we opened the window and it cooled down a little but it was miserable at first.</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMRqnUEamliB-4Jv2PiivcebXMs5SrXG3eYQx1mjZIdQ6_kYrXKC0zfqTiGN437YdGMHQKQf4EmUoZM_vh0JAPhI3rNNRRHQ7wP2baI884liDD4z60mf394hC9VNdcB7sJ0tq_wXOR1mx/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+124.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178103637432386850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMRqnUEamliB-4Jv2PiivcebXMs5SrXG3eYQx1mjZIdQ6_kYrXKC0zfqTiGN437YdGMHQKQf4EmUoZM_vh0JAPhI3rNNRRHQ7wP2baI884liDD4z60mf394hC9VNdcB7sJ0tq_wXOR1mx/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+124.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>For breakfast at the hostel we had a traditional English breakfast with eggs toast sausage baked beans and croissants. Then they had cereals and stuff like that. We got on the bus and had a two hour drive to Stourhead. It was the most beautiful place I have ever been too. If you all want to have a really good look at how pretty it is.</span><span style="color:#99ff99;"> Watch Pride and Prejudice and watch the scene where Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth (Kiera Knightly) are fighting and it is raining. They are in a big pavilion. YES, that is exactly where I went! It was amazing and it was just fun because we got to walk around the lake and take tons of pictures.</span><span style="color:#99ff99;"> Anna and I met this older couple taking a stroll through the garden and they told us that they lived in a cottage just up the road and they loved living there. We were really sad to leave there because that was probably one of the funnest places that we have been the entire trip.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOEdN3jzeMXt2ccLWWp9ol_sIk06q6oapRkKnUou80No0ijVb551BVXITdQMLOtZ_aQFhglbubfcQxRzpkFmRlaC7G1BSAY818cWXAh80X0ZH9i83-AhZmNNcfmjYOtyrm6b6gODfZf3l/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+165.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178103654612256050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOEdN3jzeMXt2ccLWWp9ol_sIk06q6oapRkKnUou80No0ijVb551BVXITdQMLOtZ_aQFhglbubfcQxRzpkFmRlaC7G1BSAY818cWXAh80X0ZH9i83-AhZmNNcfmjYOtyrm6b6gODfZf3l/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+165.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCAqVV6XcZukKIFFpor_cuv8awrZFF7D3WuDxJW6JzjmeDQx9Ok8NUeiMXHdCNmxrUK5M6ZsBOqrqW8Fu440vBGg7XryCj9jq9SV0WyTXo6gKRpq0zf414CDFFq1xRSJhDujliCgyD5He/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+170.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span></a> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCAqVV6XcZukKIFFpor_cuv8awrZFF7D3WuDxJW6JzjmeDQx9Ok8NUeiMXHdCNmxrUK5M6ZsBOqrqW8Fu440vBGg7XryCj9jq9SV0WyTXo6gKRpq0zf414CDFFq1xRSJhDujliCgyD5He/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+170.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178103663202190658" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCAqVV6XcZukKIFFpor_cuv8awrZFF7D3WuDxJW6JzjmeDQx9Ok8NUeiMXHdCNmxrUK5M6ZsBOqrqW8Fu440vBGg7XryCj9jq9SV0WyTXo6gKRpq0zf414CDFFq1xRSJhDujliCgyD5He/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+170.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>Stone Hendge was the next stop on our list and it was about 2 hours away from that. I thought that it would be allot bigger then it really is but it was still a cool experience to see. They have it roped off so we weren't able to go very close to the rocks but we still got some really cool pictures of it. </span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDDHaUeXXEZiTrZkqFcH-6jf2TNJqLROQqJXSCPWnP4ejfjh3eqsCQ7_0W95jfwmvr5zgVcxPb63BV0YvR-iAw5p-bEQSv89c3X3hVX6lLpca2VFXorGT-pEXalTA2Oh0U-meBAunyu4L/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+184.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span></a> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#99ff99;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDDHaUeXXEZiTrZkqFcH-6jf2TNJqLROQqJXSCPWnP4ejfjh3eqsCQ7_0W95jfwmvr5zgVcxPb63BV0YvR-iAw5p-bEQSv89c3X3hVX6lLpca2VFXorGT-pEXalTA2Oh0U-meBAunyu4L/s1600-h/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+184.jpg"><span style="color:#99ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178103684677027170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDDHaUeXXEZiTrZkqFcH-6jf2TNJqLROQqJXSCPWnP4ejfjh3eqsCQ7_0W95jfwmvr5zgVcxPb63BV0YvR-iAw5p-bEQSv89c3X3hVX6lLpca2VFXorGT-pEXalTA2Oh0U-meBAunyu4L/s200/Stourhead-Salsburry-Stone+Hendge+184.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>On the way home we made a stop to Salisburry Cathedral. It was huge and we were able to take a tour inside. It was a really quick stop because we had to get home before dark so after that we got back on the bus for another 2 hour ride home. The trip was so fun and I am so glad that we went. </span></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-17904298333526093612008-03-13T17:01:00.000-07:002008-03-13T18:45:14.782-07:00A Week of Plays!<span style="color:#ffcccc;">3/14/08<br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><br />Sorry it has been so long since I have put anything up on my blog. I wanted to wait until I had more pictures to put up for everyone.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8qMEmf1Tobjy-Zrh1w9VhPe_wXkMcg3BzTCQoaH4t07b2DedARvLrsPxw6Oie3NC49aa5jrPu0mF-iEBEVnnJVJSvxC5vY0BUrZB45J0gE5GMr_unZRLzBTloUk-4dBTWEudrZ2Ul20r/s1600-h/plays+009.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177403583532942386" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8qMEmf1Tobjy-Zrh1w9VhPe_wXkMcg3BzTCQoaH4t07b2DedARvLrsPxw6Oie3NC49aa5jrPu0mF-iEBEVnnJVJSvxC5vY0BUrZB45J0gE5GMr_unZRLzBTloUk-4dBTWEudrZ2Ul20r/s200/plays+009.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><br /><br /></span><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">The first thing that I went to see this last week was "The Sound of Music." We were originally going to see Phantom of the Opera but the place that we were going to get tickets at sold them for way out of our price range so as a back up plan we went to the theater for the Sound of Music and we got tickets for that night.The girls that I went with were Tori, Andrea and Amanda. The theater is at a place called Covet Garden and it is this fun square with shops and these Chinese lanterns hanging from buildings. The play was amazing especially because we got seats on the 5th row from the stage and the kids that were in it had the most amazing voices. Marie did an excellent job as well.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1l9Rox44-0H8Ks9hlf3fruKGj9j-8xTrhdsp8DIpk7WuJCqPiBmbMBwyQUvwh3IwVOu5bZMfUn42LVX2so7cDGaF0MXAvHOrI2fhDPX09piqZ8DuBMYC04swbAYSTx94RseyGBzhLIHJ/s1600-h/plays+018.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177403592122876994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1l9Rox44-0H8Ks9hlf3fruKGj9j-8xTrhdsp8DIpk7WuJCqPiBmbMBwyQUvwh3IwVOu5bZMfUn42LVX2so7cDGaF0MXAvHOrI2fhDPX09piqZ8DuBMYC04swbAYSTx94RseyGBzhLIHJ/s200/plays+018.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">The next day there was going to be a single adults dance and a bunch of girls here at the center were planning on doing that for our Friday night. I personally wasn't in the mood to go to a dance and so some of the other girls and I went to this play called "Mouse trap"</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqx4sUWO7DfgYwk9-5mtMeA-qZESYm3HpeLA6U1F5FpT1Td3_DLPUW5pTKkC_kKy9DkdhpATmSb8pektnGTu_I-2qu9h042K9Y8-T1GInHlpviFHqX1MRqPYWEsvX6DZ5GtIGBx_wpuLC/s1600-h/plays+027.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177403596417844306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqx4sUWO7DfgYwk9-5mtMeA-qZESYm3HpeLA6U1F5FpT1Td3_DLPUW5pTKkC_kKy9DkdhpATmSb8pektnGTu_I-2qu9h042K9Y8-T1GInHlpviFHqX1MRqPYWEsvX6DZ5GtIGBx_wpuLC/s200/plays+027.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> It is the longest running play in London and we got our tickets for a really cheap price. We went to the Box Office to get the tickets which was the biggest mess ever because the theater is not where it should be on the map. They changed location and so we went all over London looking for this place and we were all a little grumpy by the time we got there. We bought the cheapest tickets that they had which was on the back row but when we got there we moved up because alot of the seats weren't filled. The play is about this couple that opens a hotel and there is a huge snow storm and they hear on the Radio that there is a murderer out and they find out that the murderer is in their hotel. So it is a "who done it" kind of play. I really enjoyed it and it was fun to see an original London play.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYuB8ZpPzlIgoeXKTm7nNo3KxK8-r-xn0bnJuPRsbcpyJdEXCI5T23b6Gn6eOV5g0zn0zHdRmK-4uy3NIOe2B-V1zoI1DTs50KhJQeDnoxYUBnvJtLbmik7q6bmWygD-B_cLjaJbBhUrH/s1600-h/plays+031.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177403605007778914" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYuB8ZpPzlIgoeXKTm7nNo3KxK8-r-xn0bnJuPRsbcpyJdEXCI5T23b6Gn6eOV5g0zn0zHdRmK-4uy3NIOe2B-V1zoI1DTs50KhJQeDnoxYUBnvJtLbmik7q6bmWygD-B_cLjaJbBhUrH/s200/plays+031.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Well this week we ran into kind of a predicament. The Wednesday we were suppose to go to the west coast of England (Penzance) and this past Monday we had a hurricane and it completely covered the town in water so our trip was canceled. We are now moving that trip to next week and going to Stone henge this Friday and Saturday. I am excited that we are still going dont get me wrong there is just one problem though. The young women in my ward have been planning a trip out to London from Mitcham for next Friday, but we cant do it any more because our trip was moved. The girls have been planning on it for a long time and now we are going to have to change the date for them to come out again. Its just kind of a pain. </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">This week I have Kitchen duty, its actually really fun. We have been listening to the sound track to "Wicked" and "Hairspray" while we clean and we will sing at the top of our lungs and everyone can hear us. Its pretty funny. I think that we have been the fastest group at Kitchen clean up, seriously. We are SO FAST! </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR6CxEWOUev_1HO9NKOvCfGdJKJ_GLF7DDvwIxhpoXgL7t8Dw6Ah9C9XYQOmlfrjhFnRH7-UefVav7no_EvLZ6xb_IPR86k8MbbNoMM3UyuMN9qkJjADmbW-9Uwx4_zz1qfhMwV5b6Hml/s1600-h/plays+026.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177404949332542594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR6CxEWOUev_1HO9NKOvCfGdJKJ_GLF7DDvwIxhpoXgL7t8Dw6Ah9C9XYQOmlfrjhFnRH7-UefVav7no_EvLZ6xb_IPR86k8MbbNoMM3UyuMN9qkJjADmbW-9Uwx4_zz1qfhMwV5b6Hml/s200/plays+026.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_toCPqpubFiXYzQrchJCLPQXIf8TP63AquHfYRFkFZ3uCyjqb7wkXyrUZ6pzky9itx_nQLQOX_PqEAP7cv0OBEkXLA3eVEqLL4j-jnDuUdqCOZuurnZAqjmBlIvsIke5E7w45dT8flM5/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+165.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177403613597713522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_toCPqpubFiXYzQrchJCLPQXIf8TP63AquHfYRFkFZ3uCyjqb7wkXyrUZ6pzky9itx_nQLQOX_PqEAP7cv0OBEkXLA3eVEqLL4j-jnDuUdqCOZuurnZAqjmBlIvsIke5E7w45dT8flM5/s200/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+165.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Meg, Betsy and I have been talking the past few days about how we want to go see the play "Grease." So today we went to get tickets 1 hour before the show started and we were right in the middle on the bottom about 5-7 rows from the stage!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLoFFAqzzMeB7M9js8GgE0JmOH5IluglG9_BFh1iJrUu-LXya-qiTaI0bee5hWA8dUhggB289OTIgBWPUU2lKN3nDVh7QvscJxFfwKnZDEIidfOh2WozCPzm3VGeESN6F8NC73F_r73TTv/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+170.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177404962217444514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLoFFAqzzMeB7M9js8GgE0JmOH5IluglG9_BFh1iJrUu-LXya-qiTaI0bee5hWA8dUhggB289OTIgBWPUU2lKN3nDVh7QvscJxFfwKnZDEIidfOh2WozCPzm3VGeESN6F8NC73F_r73TTv/s200/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+170.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> It was so fun because after we got pictures with Danny and Sandy. Rocky did my make up again for the play, she is the best! I love it because I will go upstairs and ask her to do it and she will know what she wants to do before I even tell her. This time I wanted to go a little crazier with my make up because it was Grease that I was going to and so she put gold eye shadow on me and it looked so cool. The guy in the picture with me is Danny from the play and I even got a picture with me touching his hair! Meg and I wore almost the same outfit, our red and black were swapped.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqLibJ9AxQ6CR0ZuV0iYRzyMdid3nF8RV-zMPaduYv_ox8U487DuoO4GojngDVwZPDLtvYg-2gQwSkyRYml_XmL64IaQK_l8tY2StOtCMzKwzFyJC8X5UyV16Aoh2SzkStwk57kRWElMA/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+148.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177404957922477202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqLibJ9AxQ6CR0ZuV0iYRzyMdid3nF8RV-zMPaduYv_ox8U487DuoO4GojngDVwZPDLtvYg-2gQwSkyRYml_XmL64IaQK_l8tY2StOtCMzKwzFyJC8X5UyV16Aoh2SzkStwk57kRWElMA/s200/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+148.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> We had a blast tonight but now I am really tired and we have a really big trip tomorrow to Stone Henge so I will post pictures of that when I get home!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdGXrlH5UbbVCiWGNBAOfY-dPxlzNjCAd-ex1DtIUfTINNEB7osowrMW1UJRc470IglAFHgGeANJWxe4zDo3iS7rkf_xfqjyYe5kDuzjbhcLo494xVqKCllgR7Hn7_3W65TMrO0dJaJiJ/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+188.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177404983692281026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdGXrlH5UbbVCiWGNBAOfY-dPxlzNjCAd-ex1DtIUfTINNEB7osowrMW1UJRc470IglAFHgGeANJWxe4zDo3iS7rkf_xfqjyYe5kDuzjbhcLo494xVqKCllgR7Hn7_3W65TMrO0dJaJiJ/s200/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+188.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LM0cbMWlPPRww5-rK6hC5AsbZDz0QSBPgk6xMm2KBs3sbRaATd3ttVXrxN2CEm_WKpldB9JyF3eIfw9hcLlwn4xKy5LuWDev4bJzk4GFHeaXlFJyHCNJjRrecAkd-7ZgVHRO39ezd4YV/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+186.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177404975102346418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LM0cbMWlPPRww5-rK6hC5AsbZDz0QSBPgk6xMm2KBs3sbRaATd3ttVXrxN2CEm_WKpldB9JyF3eIfw9hcLlwn4xKy5LuWDev4bJzk4GFHeaXlFJyHCNJjRrecAkd-7ZgVHRO39ezd4YV/s200/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+186.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Also I saw the movie "The Other Boleyn Girl" and we were really hating life after that movie. It wasn't very uplifting to say the least so I wouldn't recommend it.</span></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-43275585295512109922008-03-06T08:44:00.000-08:002008-03-06T10:17:59.441-08:00Tower of London and More!<div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOtPIc3a48_OlCyhpK0f2AwFRGgCaP_Mcr8iENGD8LM6UPY-4hdpxQKAiejwYEUtjrmqaIVfReeUExFH9a6Nqx7N8XQNZRLnl-RZEBg9YRjC2cev_8nMOAumY6mXDFQSVqL8sACOAxB4C/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+049.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174690971048959490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOtPIc3a48_OlCyhpK0f2AwFRGgCaP_Mcr8iENGD8LM6UPY-4hdpxQKAiejwYEUtjrmqaIVfReeUExFH9a6Nqx7N8XQNZRLnl-RZEBg9YRjC2cev_8nMOAumY6mXDFQSVqL8sACOAxB4C/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+049.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;">As a class assignment for my Criminology class we went on the "Jack the Ripper" tour. It started around 7pm at night so it would give the tour a different feeling. We learned about how and why people think that he killed the prostitutes. It wasn't so much "scary" it was more disturbing. I didn't really know the story before but the tour guide took us to every single place where the killings took place and he described everything in detail but he talked allot about what London was like during that time. He told us that the London wall would separate the poor and the wealthy and how the people that would have children on the poor side of the wall would only survive until they were 5 years old because the water was so bad and hygiene was horrible with people just going to the bathroom any where because they didn't have a sewage system. These people lived in complete squalor. Any way allot of the ways that women would even be able to even feed them selves was through prostitution and they would sleep in shelter things for 2 pence a night. They would sleep with a rope strung across the wall and the would drape their arms over the rope and sleep standing up. (sounds comfortable huh) We also learned that Jack the Ripper was just a name that one of the journalist gave him during that time. No body really knows who he was or what happened to him. It will be a mystery forever. </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtP6Idxu_W-6a2nmE7xrOaVypnG1xg89GbzaHjxg-1Eda7b5ZN_Qx6HzZ0Fnkpa-r-q3sFcS8WxoQs8xxgYU2OeVHLQdjks8Jt3ixFuqnGfRzhASUo76J2Bi4rAmhYoWRcZPHXPC5BkBsE/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+040.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174690988228828690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtP6Idxu_W-6a2nmE7xrOaVypnG1xg89GbzaHjxg-1Eda7b5ZN_Qx6HzZ0Fnkpa-r-q3sFcS8WxoQs8xxgYU2OeVHLQdjks8Jt3ixFuqnGfRzhASUo76J2Bi4rAmhYoWRcZPHXPC5BkBsE/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+040.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtc12K_Q48LkNLkbY2EaFSdHKH5IcY6uri47XiDBiXjZUaNEC-yPLLPLJpmbCEh_s75kv2wz80hPgctGKEE2U4AGgZ6mP9gM0fazgLMgtZMZsy2j96zDJTV52rzX4cm-7dQBzdWPwXEYzT/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+005.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174691001113730594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtc12K_Q48LkNLkbY2EaFSdHKH5IcY6uri47XiDBiXjZUaNEC-yPLLPLJpmbCEh_s75kv2wz80hPgctGKEE2U4AGgZ6mP9gM0fazgLMgtZMZsy2j96zDJTV52rzX4cm-7dQBzdWPwXEYzT/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+005.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">The trip today started at 9am, when we had to meet in the class room to get our tickets for the Tower of London Tour. Joe Ostraff (my professor) gave us each a ticket and told us that we had till' 1:30pm to meet them in Greenwich at the Prime meridian line. This is where we were planning on taking our group picture. </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We started our journey getting on the tube at Notting hill gate tube station and going to Tower Hill Station. As you exit the station there is an incredible view of the tower of London. We tagged onto one of the groups inside the tower where a Beef Eater showed us around. He took us to a church in the tower where Anne and Kathrine are buried (Henry the 8Th's wives). He also told us that there are 125 people that live in the tower. The man giving us the tour said that he raised all of his children in the tower. He also said that it was a great way to raise a teenage because at 10pm they lock up the tower and have a key ceremony. After the tour we went into the tower where the crown jewels are, and it was amazing! The doors into the room are huge bullet proof doors and there was just a ton of stuff (Like the Largest cut diamond!) And most all of the crowns from previous kings and queens. We then moved on to see the Torture instruments of Spain! I thought it was going to be allot more intense then it actually was but I still cant imagine having my thumbs in screws...ouch!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh844uK5p8STMd4EMHSU6kp0E0tDcFMfg4NTiptvYfDoSYgqslqxLCjxjo-eut7yQF5-0aC2CkqqzgzulkfFR9kSbj52YqnFWDkxG390T1Wz3Ferm-00DZq9g2K-TbbFuqTg7WMPAGdBDw1/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+008.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174691022588567106" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh844uK5p8STMd4EMHSU6kp0E0tDcFMfg4NTiptvYfDoSYgqslqxLCjxjo-eut7yQF5-0aC2CkqqzgzulkfFR9kSbj52YqnFWDkxG390T1Wz3Ferm-00DZq9g2K-TbbFuqTg7WMPAGdBDw1/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+008.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We were ready to go to Greenwich around 12pm and look at some of the shops. This is a small town and it is a long walk through a park and up a hill to get to the Meridian Line so we thought that we would get a head start. When we first got there, we were starving so we found this little organic sandwich shop and I ordered a smoke salmon sandwich...after Alaska I never thought that I would eat fish again but I decided that I should give it another chance. I mean it has been a few months since I have ripped the guts out of a salmon. Well I should have gone with my instincts. They brought me raw fish with no smoked brine on it. One look at that sandwich and I said to my self "There is no way that I am going to eat that, I refuse!" So I took my plate back to the manager and told her that I mis understood that it was going to be raw fish, and so she replaced it with a tuna sandwich. It wasn't the best I have had either considering that it was 75% olives and I don't eat those either. So I had to pick them off. I am not a picky eater but there are 2 things that I absolutely will not eat, raw fish and olives. I got both of those for lunch that day.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-5jX7Nn2ePVIiHqrrZmhVwHfzim1xSkklUSC05mUMXv-IacuFAdsoNB7-qH_lRfHxbfwWSVmBK6HrB2Ts_ee5l2MRArGiBuTH4HWJh17p25tq_iY1bjIZQ8kynbLw0phmV98N_YFGVgZS/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+010.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174691013998632498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-5jX7Nn2ePVIiHqrrZmhVwHfzim1xSkklUSC05mUMXv-IacuFAdsoNB7-qH_lRfHxbfwWSVmBK6HrB2Ts_ee5l2MRArGiBuTH4HWJh17p25tq_iY1bjIZQ8kynbLw0phmV98N_YFGVgZS/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+010.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffcccc;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We made it just in time to the Meridian line and the view was incredible! You could see London from way up high and I hadn't done that yet. We took allot of pictures and walked around in this astronomy center before we left for home. It was a good way to end our day.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqixQ6QYg8tekN1dxEX4l-QAQMGe_3xpDJC3XubdNim7JmrzH2U7SqcInzNTE2hinX4VXX7awL-VO6pA_mjvebzywJDr_XlRUcL4wmbEe9seNJpmbkSo0BUr6KFHOuGTORBZfzZR1b64ty/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+050.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174693066993000018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqixQ6QYg8tekN1dxEX4l-QAQMGe_3xpDJC3XubdNim7JmrzH2U7SqcInzNTE2hinX4VXX7awL-VO6pA_mjvebzywJDr_XlRUcL4wmbEe9seNJpmbkSo0BUr6KFHOuGTORBZfzZR1b64ty/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+050.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSaSs6p1T4Nuoqt_rO0Bsqwb36xo02-Jd4ukKDLXZt1PI9C27KAlkjw_9gYzZC0XpD4_mi85ZOL_ZA3tLSaRSv3qy_JXQp30ws61218ULfgaQ1Eb44j4Kgj6_aJkQVXCrszl0CJZyxAXD/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+066.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174693092762803826" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSaSs6p1T4Nuoqt_rO0Bsqwb36xo02-Jd4ukKDLXZt1PI9C27KAlkjw_9gYzZC0XpD4_mi85ZOL_ZA3tLSaRSv3qy_JXQp30ws61218ULfgaQ1Eb44j4Kgj6_aJkQVXCrszl0CJZyxAXD/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+066.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLSVDHaNb06jR495cG3SVfoZazx6NboW1UTibOhDM3EacsduD3FJWh_66H3cfgjqPMWFypakwhwNifjQKhsyrrLmjY-ykjq_lxethNTtQi4gHK18NDj29sGxOv01cdBKFH_6L4h6x_GGN/s1600-h/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+056.jpg"><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174693079877901922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLSVDHaNb06jR495cG3SVfoZazx6NboW1UTibOhDM3EacsduD3FJWh_66H3cfgjqPMWFypakwhwNifjQKhsyrrLmjY-ykjq_lxethNTtQi4gHK18NDj29sGxOv01cdBKFH_6L4h6x_GGN/s320/Tower+Hill-Greenwich+056.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-38726111389675280712008-03-02T04:20:00.000-08:002008-03-02T05:08:03.652-08:00Kent Coutryside Hike!<span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;">3/1/08<br /></span><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;">The week after I had arrived in London the stake President of Hyde park came to speak to the students here at the center. This is when we were assigned to our wards and given callings. While he was speaking to us he told us of a hike that we would be able to participate in not to far into the future of our stay here in London. We thought that we still had a long time before the hike seeing as that it would have been 2 months from the time that he spoke to us...well it has been two months since I have been here and the hike finally arrived.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfWnRuAPL1RCoAkUPIml6xdy3Vd9qiCB4lWGJtAj2hxBy-3rsag5n8G6ZxfPtyZpeYK6uC7I3_TIy1-b6vP_RvxSZlxwwjYUG7NcuQqDOgq3uodRyQ9PjeY9bfySjzIOevrfDL3RUSSVJW/s1600-h/Kent+044.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173123334139622466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 319px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" height="71" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfWnRuAPL1RCoAkUPIml6xdy3Vd9qiCB4lWGJtAj2hxBy-3rsag5n8G6ZxfPtyZpeYK6uC7I3_TIy1-b6vP_RvxSZlxwwjYUG7NcuQqDOgq3uodRyQ9PjeY9bfySjzIOevrfDL3RUSSVJW/s320/Kent+044.jpg" width="28" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;">Some of us weren't sure if we wanted to do it because it was 9 miles long, but he had told us that it would be through the country side in Kent England. Also we would have to wake up at 6am which didn't sound very fun. I wanted to be able to experience everything I could in England so I woke up at the crack of dawn and took a cold shower (the heater is still broken). We had breakfast from 7-8am and we left at 7:45am for the train station. It was about an hour and a half train ride outside of London and the scenery on the way was incredible, rolling green hills! </span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTY1tJbLIlUNDwU_NmKxcWngRtCjNXw2sZ4ed9GicjJjG97sueOkvDWFAfCgUZ41Wx3nG-SnpY6x25aZRS3Ucr3jQtekfgYX_R8bMb19AW2Pje_FNgTLo2jVKb_iU8LposUn_0B7J40Ubp/s1600-h/Kent+006.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173123316959753250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTY1tJbLIlUNDwU_NmKxcWngRtCjNXw2sZ4ed9GicjJjG97sueOkvDWFAfCgUZ41Wx3nG-SnpY6x25aZRS3Ucr3jQtekfgYX_R8bMb19AW2Pje_FNgTLo2jVKb_iU8LposUn_0B7J40Ubp/s320/Kent+006.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;">When we arrived we started out the walk at this church and we stopped and took some pictures. The entire hike I could never justify in pictures because it was absolutely breathe taking. We walked passed a river with ducks swimming it it and there were green vines hanging from the trees. We also saw alot of people taking "strolls" through the country side on their horses.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBEDC7coxpYiqhEYqvm4MlfgNCJvrTQWJz5bN9PJ4r2EshnIEIeX-Zy51VClS9JObGp08zzTy_anw2lV0we_BkWOkxEuDFjPiDqNgI22kDFPsTnM14a2mtEpZI_J19Fyh949JghBS1Mwc/s1600-h/Kent+078.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173128170272797810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBEDC7coxpYiqhEYqvm4MlfgNCJvrTQWJz5bN9PJ4r2EshnIEIeX-Zy51VClS9JObGp08zzTy_anw2lV0we_BkWOkxEuDFjPiDqNgI22kDFPsTnM14a2mtEpZI_J19Fyh949JghBS1Mwc/s320/Kent+078.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrSecK9KhkKxT8Y63w19HtSvvAETSVyAcn3Go81E3vjFXEEBl_veencpx7NVkH39gHRBQQedpLKiqvbyhtEkkIm8INNPW-VfHFzD_XI9mHVVtsNtan2iWC3V36rBVs8zCl8BAZ92jlzuh/s1600-h/Kent+099.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173128183157699714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrSecK9KhkKxT8Y63w19HtSvvAETSVyAcn3Go81E3vjFXEEBl_veencpx7NVkH39gHRBQQedpLKiqvbyhtEkkIm8INNPW-VfHFzD_XI9mHVVtsNtan2iWC3V36rBVs8zCl8BAZ92jlzuh/s320/Kent+099.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"> There was a little cottage that we stopped at that sold frozen fruit. This store was in the middle of no where and they had the cutest little tea sets and lots of fresh, frozen and dried fruit. I bought a tea set there. I couldn't believe it because the price was amazing for it, the only problem is that that I was hiking...You will be happy to know that I made it home with the entire tea set not broken. We had to walk through this little town to get to the train and every house that we passed had a family name and then the word cottage after it, so for example (Neubert cottage). The town was so old and cute. I loved the walk and I am so glad that I went because it was beautiful!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbi-bF9yWXaanN2VX0HKty8MuOWBDKSn8FtOY3j5wrnDbYHMyNG8_a55iggu4scSrTHAoQI0JkZ_L67cUSZZDTyRAkGDk613EKOsst9aEE_8ttygxI5mQsOGbKHsA0MTQZWoKVOv4nR5n/s1600-h/Kent+053.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173123342729557074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbi-bF9yWXaanN2VX0HKty8MuOWBDKSn8FtOY3j5wrnDbYHMyNG8_a55iggu4scSrTHAoQI0JkZ_L67cUSZZDTyRAkGDk613EKOsst9aEE_8ttygxI5mQsOGbKHsA0MTQZWoKVOv4nR5n/s320/Kent+053.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxjKb1bwstxppvEOHxcriFfotyMvfIoPgW-CvZUN-qZUdTHqzYVMOyosQaYe-ELMeONxZvkn4eEGa8-iS2t-wuElStry6ZuTyAvsfqVmSx__ND9iJkb1zLfXKwlr5xqnoNr-Nqf3_4MOU/s1600-h/Kent+021.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173123325549687858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxjKb1bwstxppvEOHxcriFfotyMvfIoPgW-CvZUN-qZUdTHqzYVMOyosQaYe-ELMeONxZvkn4eEGa8-iS2t-wuElStry6ZuTyAvsfqVmSx__ND9iJkb1zLfXKwlr5xqnoNr-Nqf3_4MOU/s320/Kent+021.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;">We also stopped at this old castle in the town, most of it was torn down but the outside walls were still up so we had a really nice lunch in the middle of it. The wind started to pick up and we got kind of cold towards the end so we left and continued our walk around the country side.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWQ6tGTLdzELOWdQ70UZPLpjtfqNKA7_IH9HZ9I6BrdUEqQE91-wwvMNAdL2a0-fwz38M-ZYjxdPO4vODi1v3W7hAtA1hL4xCTABvpuwmPTBDe98_aSeFUBLY6UiTyEKULQJK9HuKN_Wp/s1600-h/Kent+092.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173128213222470818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWQ6tGTLdzELOWdQ70UZPLpjtfqNKA7_IH9HZ9I6BrdUEqQE91-wwvMNAdL2a0-fwz38M-ZYjxdPO4vODi1v3W7hAtA1hL4xCTABvpuwmPTBDe98_aSeFUBLY6UiTyEKULQJK9HuKN_Wp/s320/Kent+092.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSjzixyERcweOgcPmfFuRVvGg3fSz0VTInUOiRJBh0vlmT8DNY1KrPFPxiWHjhyTeAIdJE1cdk4FS2rcop5gw7n9NSbqeFVrDhJXC9rYEtW3OvRcoqfaJvF-hE4QZbaxQQc9_UUUyN-W0/s1600-h/Kent+097.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173128204632536210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSjzixyERcweOgcPmfFuRVvGg3fSz0VTInUOiRJBh0vlmT8DNY1KrPFPxiWHjhyTeAIdJE1cdk4FS2rcop5gw7n9NSbqeFVrDhJXC9rYEtW3OvRcoqfaJvF-hE4QZbaxQQc9_UUUyN-W0/s320/Kent+097.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK9hfZufpEHTtUF8DtiYcgSdzGsXYbEqtqOtQIGGZWIQ1l5_zTttyZRTb5SNDGuuoUu8ul4y4OBeABJak4z28L-WEGEI-kWRHo8Xi5LGnHg9wOf8RLU1Y6hSSBxCvTNG8V7CuvihF7Z__/s1600-h/Kent+067.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#33ff33;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173129802360370354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK9hfZufpEHTtUF8DtiYcgSdzGsXYbEqtqOtQIGGZWIQ1l5_zTttyZRTb5SNDGuuoUu8ul4y4OBeABJak4z28L-WEGEI-kWRHo8Xi5LGnHg9wOf8RLU1Y6hSSBxCvTNG8V7CuvihF7Z__/s320/Kent+067.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-81183392988646779752008-02-29T13:57:00.000-08:002008-02-29T15:00:11.180-08:00Stratford-Upon-Avon! Hello Shakespeare!<span style="color:#ffff66;">2/28/08</span><br /><span style="color:#ffff66;">The trip started out extremely early in the morning, at 6:30am to be exact. I had to wake up that early in order to get a shower before we left at 7am. Its a really good thing that our water heater is broken or else it would have been a really miserable shower. Wait a minute...it was a miserable shower! The people that were suppose to fix it still haven't done anything and BYU has a contract with them so they are just being really lazy about getting it fixed. We are now going on a week of taking ICE cold showers here in London and it about freezes my brain every time. I have the biggest head ache after, and I don't even think that we are even getting that clean here because the soap will just freeze to us and crumble when we try to use it. It is NO FUN! The bus ride over there was about three hours and I was so tired that I slept most of the ride, which I hate doing because the scenery is amazing with the green hills and sheep and everything. It is just so pretty. The morning didn't just start off bad because of my shower though. A few weeks ago I had bought Phantom of the Opera tickets and we had planned to go on the same day as our trip, not knowing that we were going to Stratford Upon Avon. So we had to try and sell our tickets or else the four of us girls were going to be out of $50. One of the girls went to this University called Arcadia by us and put an add up for the students to let them know that we had tickets available for them to buy from us. We got a few responses and this made us so happy because then we wouldnt lose any money. Well, one of the girls here told the people that were going to buy them that she would meet them to exchange tickets and money. Well my friend forgot. I was pretty mad because we had been trying so hard to sell them and then our one chance to get money out of them she forgot. So she called them that night and apologized for forgetting and asked if they still wanted them. The obviously still did, and this is where I got a little confused. The girls told them that she would leave the tickets at the front desk at Arcadia for them to pick up and they could leave the money in the envelope that she left there for them. I didn't really understand that logic because we are in a foreign country and not everyone is honest, so I was extremely worried that we were going to get ripped off. </span><div><div><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">The whole time at Stratford I couldn't stop thinking about the tickets, it just made me sick. But when we arrived home we got an email from the people that got the tickets from us and they said that Arcadia wouldn't let them leave the money there because the University didn't want to be responsible for all of that money but the woman said that she would meet us anytime to have her pay us and she thanked us for the tickets. So in the end it did work out and I am so glad that the people that took our tickets were honest because it would have been so easy for them to have just taken them and avoided paying us. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">So now that I have gotten that story out of the way want to tell you about my visit to Stratford!</span></div><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">Our first stop was at Anne Hathaway's cottage! My professor told us that this is the place where she lived before she married John Groburg...Well if you know your history well enough, there was another Anne Hathaway who was the wife of Shakespeare. This is the cottage that she grew up in and it was so cute. As we pulled up you could see this small little garden in the trees with this cottage that seriously looked like snow white cottage.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGr5L0ukc2GzlhlgKdlNJ7yUq4B87Hgjsv9QpRFnXXLWi9PfMg5dopVOCu0gQCy0AAGYgNScyN7AjWkoaTsb9PypffFZXpIT2lEFlsE6KZCPiNQ-uyi_SNlyoRrHv5Xt5h32-njsMO_NE/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+069.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172537900032406514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGr5L0ukc2GzlhlgKdlNJ7yUq4B87Hgjsv9QpRFnXXLWi9PfMg5dopVOCu0gQCy0AAGYgNScyN7AjWkoaTsb9PypffFZXpIT2lEFlsE6KZCPiNQ-uyi_SNlyoRrHv5Xt5h32-njsMO_NE/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+069.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwBnOVpyOnmlJdpCfEty5JpX_eOR0o7IPeJkUa3iiBYUIa1k87-FPgAUjAMdWJ2klHotfWpwFWiMhVDJbvCrd8j5LcmC9621hZnW546B-e2CIFFC4UpHR23eoNbaPMkqY9bh4b6JHOoNWU/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+008.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172536594362348450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwBnOVpyOnmlJdpCfEty5JpX_eOR0o7IPeJkUa3iiBYUIa1k87-FPgAUjAMdWJ2klHotfWpwFWiMhVDJbvCrd8j5LcmC9621hZnW546B-e2CIFFC4UpHR23eoNbaPMkqY9bh4b6JHOoNWU/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+008.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffff66;"> It had a straw roof and the flowers were so pretty everywhere. The tour didn't start until 10am so we were able to wander for a while. I found a gift shop for the cottage and they sold these really pretty prints of the house and the flowers so I bought two of them. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5toCN2CxGYHG7QTAEotUOiLy2W5JIs4QVqpgwgL9R05_BauXwIj3RYR_pERxPUTz7Dn2bEAKd0IvmEtquDGW0EcZgG_e33SvAjfmMSy7G9UHFcpUXFEuZ7-Lp8bnKg-CPMDwtqoatGUmH/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+016.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172540038926119954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5toCN2CxGYHG7QTAEotUOiLy2W5JIs4QVqpgwgL9R05_BauXwIj3RYR_pERxPUTz7Dn2bEAKd0IvmEtquDGW0EcZgG_e33SvAjfmMSy7G9UHFcpUXFEuZ7-Lp8bnKg-CPMDwtqoatGUmH/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+016.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffff66;">One of my professors wives gets the biggest kick out of me because I am always looking for really pretty prints to buy of places that I go to. But I look at it as a really good investment for when I have my own house and I can have the pictures hanging in there. The picture with Mike and I holding the little things that say "Out, damned spot!" Are erasers, we thought that they were pretty funny.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpRc9b25wza5Z6J_aDrCC2D3yOOt0vbWGQYQyO9skW5iR_WwpFFkZOX8kilC4Vmlc2svxFwRxcGEgnNa2Pwy0TQSYQdurC9wKOKaSkZZP4ExMJyCPnknpodfJLpe1CNUg2D0VDwsKlU6f/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+036.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172536615837184962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpRc9b25wza5Z6J_aDrCC2D3yOOt0vbWGQYQyO9skW5iR_WwpFFkZOX8kilC4Vmlc2svxFwRxcGEgnNa2Pwy0TQSYQdurC9wKOKaSkZZP4ExMJyCPnknpodfJLpe1CNUg2D0VDwsKlU6f/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+036.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VK2IsvWbOYKJtNSrJepIndSI77K46Obp1nSSaFiMc5xm2kRUew0KZxBAZEG2z52sg3Kbl0kzI5edkHOBoP2fSGYdwqJtNDyTuGRY7FtbCzAw0SiWNByprjwG_Dv9_LEd4xBS6PfSKa6q/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+062.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172536645901956066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VK2IsvWbOYKJtNSrJepIndSI77K46Obp1nSSaFiMc5xm2kRUew0KZxBAZEG2z52sg3Kbl0kzI5edkHOBoP2fSGYdwqJtNDyTuGRY7FtbCzAw0SiWNByprjwG_Dv9_LEd4xBS6PfSKa6q/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+062.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">So after the cottage we went to Shakespeare's birth place. My professor thought that he was funny and asked me where the epidural room was in the building. It fooled a few of the girls, they actually thought that Shakespeare's mom would have had an epidural when giving birth to Shakespeare. It was pretty funny. The whole town is so old! Just eh houses an everything you can see from the pictures have stayed the same and alot of the floors haven't even been replaced from his time. CRAZY! </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwWXbhu3ZD9HueXIzhZM1bam9Oo7CSEuqqJuVw5QbsHOsRPgdwqJEMyw34d7htbnLxePPJHkzn-yOnYjS-h5FFFMlRtLGFWfdDxHCBze5c3j2Kx4eg5QvE-OYSq6iKGjEtDXua2YhqP3_/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+051.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172536633017054162" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwWXbhu3ZD9HueXIzhZM1bam9Oo7CSEuqqJuVw5QbsHOsRPgdwqJEMyw34d7htbnLxePPJHkzn-yOnYjS-h5FFFMlRtLGFWfdDxHCBze5c3j2Kx4eg5QvE-OYSq6iKGjEtDXua2YhqP3_/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+051.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">We also went to this old church where Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway are buried. It was a really great experience to see that and get pictures with it. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ffff66;">We had a play to go to at 1pm called Henry the 4th by Shakespeare. Well it was fun....at least the beginning and the end, I don't remember much of the middle, seeing as that I fell asleep because I didn't understand most of what they were saying and there is obviously no music involved so I crashed pretty fast. I should have read a summery of it before but I didn't so the play was really confusing. It was a really great thing to end the day with because we went on an entire Shakespeare tour and then we got to end the day with one of his plays. It was a beautiful town and so fun to just walk around in. We left for home around 5pm and made it home in time for dinner and it gave us time to relax from our long drive.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjks8jfhiKyU1ChHQqgCb0nenZJnrPHfEaPHwsOJu1liFsKxZV9IrlFXt76mBTWGvfKeikfLeqRSnC-vCU5R9uMRK6TAy7dkuAwWz8I5qD_J1cSlhMfbxREEPATIOeAcv8pJf8-G8eR-BVy/s1600-h/Stratford-Upon-Avon+093.jpg"><span style="color:#ffff66;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172537917212275714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjks8jfhiKyU1ChHQqgCb0nenZJnrPHfEaPHwsOJu1liFsKxZV9IrlFXt76mBTWGvfKeikfLeqRSnC-vCU5R9uMRK6TAy7dkuAwWz8I5qD_J1cSlhMfbxREEPATIOeAcv8pJf8-G8eR-BVy/s320/Stratford-Upon-Avon+093.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffff66;"> </span></div></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-74211648748818676502008-02-25T07:12:00.000-08:002008-02-25T08:07:40.957-08:00Last day in Scotland!<span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">2/23/08<br /></span><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">This is the last day of our trip and I will tell you that I am so excited to go back to London. I have realized through my travels here in Europe that the French (at least in Paris) are grouchy, People in London are friendly, but the people in Scotland are really really friendly. The Scottish people are just alot more laid back then alot of the other people. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">We started the day at 8am and slowly got out of bed to have breakfast and pack to go home. I had bought a banana and a granola bar the day before so we just hung out at the hostel for breakfast that morning as we packed. The girl in the bunk below me (Brittnee) bought bagpipes and was trying to figure out that morning how she was going to get them home. We were all so tired from our hike in the rain so we were in no hurry to get up that morning. My feet hurt so bad because I had hiked in my rain boots and those were the only shoes that I had brought for the trip. So I was starting to form blisters even though I was wearing all of the socks that I had brought (which was 5 pairs). That morning I put on all of the clothes that I had brought (which wasnt much) and this made it alot lighter for my back pack. I am sure that I smelled really good wearing all of my dirty clothes, I felt like a home less person.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">We made our way back out of the hostel and we wanted to go back to a few shops before we left for the plane. The gypsy store was at the top of our list and I bought a journal there. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">Some of the girls wanted to go to the Edinburgh University to see what the college looked like so we made our way down there. It was really old looking and we came across the school library, the sign to it read "Library Pub." I have never heard a library being at a bar but that is just the way that they do it in Scotland I guess. We also made our way up to the English department and were able to see some of the papers that students have written that were graded by their instructors. They were extremely harsh and I realized then and there that I was not cut out to be a student at a university like that. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">On our way closer to the bus station to catch our plane, we made a quick stop to the national gallery of Scotland. I bought a childrens book that has scottish words in it, its called "Katie goes to Grandpa's Ferm" I had to buy it! </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">For lunch we went to this place called "Chocolate Soup" They have chocolate pancakes and they really do have chocolate soup! I just got a sandwich because obviously I needed somthing more then just a melted down candy bar. But the place was so fun! We were trying to kill some time so we were in that restaurant for about an hour. Once we finally had the energy to walk again we headed up towards this hillside that has a bunch of old Roman ruins. We stopped on the way at this really neat graveyard and took some pictures there. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyjUPQH4pM_oWBC0QzSIQIQn8fVFk51AUeOBDWaJCteIpdqFqRqiH2zRwOhKiWAYZFFpJt-Md9Xm14QFB0FardIVnZ09Z8KDATIO_XxC4l87iAx8mTQrH6e4pjBdOCaSJ5iQLyJ470PME/s1600-h/Scotland+139.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170944420423125154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyjUPQH4pM_oWBC0QzSIQIQn8fVFk51AUeOBDWaJCteIpdqFqRqiH2zRwOhKiWAYZFFpJt-Md9Xm14QFB0FardIVnZ09Z8KDATIO_XxC4l87iAx8mTQrH6e4pjBdOCaSJ5iQLyJ470PME/s320/Scotland+139.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwEOgX91c5kKY3wQqMNIFIUZplOP56qz49oPwE7ILZj3mnE8OQLK58HbMPH4LUUkb9Om4_-R3IGPr-90ld6_VNOBQdrkDLEHMZhOqSvCgsXmY8fZoBugDc8Pu3Nqzjt3OgoI18cNUEHtu/s1600-h/Scotland+161.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170944429013059762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwEOgX91c5kKY3wQqMNIFIUZplOP56qz49oPwE7ILZj3mnE8OQLK58HbMPH4LUUkb9Om4_-R3IGPr-90ld6_VNOBQdrkDLEHMZhOqSvCgsXmY8fZoBugDc8Pu3Nqzjt3OgoI18cNUEHtu/s320/Scotland+161.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">When we got to the Roamn Ruins it was a great way to end our trip to Scotland. The weather was beautiful and the view was almost as incredible as the view from Arthers Seat. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicK4XCk07ZFgZxPvuEXfZ5dSYgH3G39SU6vtOWjHHABPKA5PylHKKHYwWv3e2sIE7aZJMTkqwU2G0YaLmtGwEUzkLAgiW69bno5pd3X3edw4veMth8Ez71kPPLvy12lbnW0rF-tp361Smj/s1600-h/Scotland+177.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170944441897961682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicK4XCk07ZFgZxPvuEXfZ5dSYgH3G39SU6vtOWjHHABPKA5PylHKKHYwWv3e2sIE7aZJMTkqwU2G0YaLmtGwEUzkLAgiW69bno5pd3X3edw4veMth8Ez71kPPLvy12lbnW0rF-tp361Smj/s320/Scotland+177.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8gftOAkffX8JHPzDXDsXqqUIzsYoXLrk66KCluUdw_9hJJOvRNKTbvHc83MMiIqynGgUXGpnjRhMPYfkGYyWz4ssVftc2SCSIb5tm1vsVT0LWZZfY-5Ux9IJD1YRoB_ZSuvJQzAsAaoM/s1600-h/Scotland+165.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170944433308027074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8gftOAkffX8JHPzDXDsXqqUIzsYoXLrk66KCluUdw_9hJJOvRNKTbvHc83MMiIqynGgUXGpnjRhMPYfkGYyWz4ssVftc2SCSIb5tm1vsVT0LWZZfY-5Ux9IJD1YRoB_ZSuvJQzAsAaoM/s320/Scotland+165.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">This is actually a great view of Arthers seat from the hill of the ruins.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">We finally made it to the bus station to catch it over to the airport. And once we got to the airport we met the rest of our group and talked about the great time that we had in Scotland as we waited to get on our plane. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzemphJwrYGDHazMmq82UtZW6jbmNXpJotNwPnf__zoNmqptN5vbRBBHRs-D8Y3uPqHYl4TN_jD88BNDJzbCUMb00TSmehC47O-oKX1kFknr94PaSkb63t_DNPgB9dCXbeb_OipDvtluK/s1600-h/Scotland+182.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170944450487896290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzemphJwrYGDHazMmq82UtZW6jbmNXpJotNwPnf__zoNmqptN5vbRBBHRs-D8Y3uPqHYl4TN_jD88BNDJzbCUMb00TSmehC47O-oKX1kFknr94PaSkb63t_DNPgB9dCXbeb_OipDvtluK/s320/Scotland+182.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#ff99ff;">When we got home I found out that the heater to our shower was broken, I know, Great thing to come home to right? I am so mad and tired and cold that I just went and got in the shower any way and it was so cold that the soap just froze to my skin, I dont even know how clean I actually even got but it felt alot better after I was out. That is the end of my trip to Scotland! </span></div><div> </div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dycI44P6SI8Ky1Od9DbHcIvqTOUE0FGvw5IS9I4L6CFmKZQx8aMYNjQIC9JhhWxoENSWO3hi86Jq6yVtXf5CA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-54683795011473686242008-02-25T05:43:00.000-08:002008-02-25T07:11:29.489-08:00Long rainy day in Edinburgh<span style="color:#66ff99;">2/22/08</span><br /><div><span style="color:#66ff99;">Today is the second day of our trip to Edinburgh and we were so tired so we slept in until 9am. After we finally slugged out of bed we got all of our warm clothes on because the plan for the day was to hike Arthers seat. It is the tallest mountain point in Edinburgh and it looks over the entire city. The hike isnt that bad, but when you combine rain and wind it tends to make it a bit more difficult. We were given a locker to put our stuff in at the hostel that Andrea and I shared. I put most of my stuff in there because I didnt want to have to pack all of my things up the mountain. I took the most essential things with me up the mountain like my passport and money but most everything else I left there. I had worn two pairs of leggings under my jeans and three shirts along with a sweat shirt and my coat with rain boots. I was completely bundled up. We had to walk back down the Royal mile to get to the starting point of the mountain and as we got there it started to pour down rain. Not just sprinkle rain, but it was blowing side ways! But that didnt stop us. This was our one time in Edinburgh and we wanted to do everything, rain or shine. I was really glad that I wore my boots because the girls that I was with were soaked at their pants even in the first part of our hike. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRUnb_pFLcNkZYMG-lE5t8wgHAwdU3GEOTRYLFBe6Janqob094GMPwMOv2uHzOygaTAMSu5rnlCNtuiNjYlFH0FBwJoxJ0sTFIKEdSp4zEA8tSnI2OMYNuiFFgENv9-rmAeBWLFZlFCvr/s1600-h/Scotland+101.jpg"><span style="color:#66ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170924251256703090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRUnb_pFLcNkZYMG-lE5t8wgHAwdU3GEOTRYLFBe6Janqob094GMPwMOv2uHzOygaTAMSu5rnlCNtuiNjYlFH0FBwJoxJ0sTFIKEdSp4zEA8tSnI2OMYNuiFFgENv9-rmAeBWLFZlFCvr/s320/Scotland+101.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4-pXce8cxNJIPIVB7AKLyKmDqsjGzwbLg5f66mOM79un1i-GwdWyzG4d4_y63N8LsxWHyT3LjzKCwlSwihK0pfbEPX4_t_WTH8sm8Gh_a3fD7yjKtF-maz7H88e0Hejpcfh_zzyoqW28/s1600-h/Scotland+096.jpg"><span style="color:#66ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170924242666768482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4-pXce8cxNJIPIVB7AKLyKmDqsjGzwbLg5f66mOM79un1i-GwdWyzG4d4_y63N8LsxWHyT3LjzKCwlSwihK0pfbEPX4_t_WTH8sm8Gh_a3fD7yjKtF-maz7H88e0Hejpcfh_zzyoqW28/s320/Scotland+096.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#66ff99;">As we got closer to the top it started to hail and the wind was so strong that we had to stop and hold onto some boulders so that the wind didnt blow us off the mountain. It was getting really scary but we were determind! As we got to the top we had to hide next to some rocks for the wind to go down, 10 minutes into us waiting at the top the sky cleared and the sun started to shine through. It was the most incredible view from the top. We could see the Isle of Skye across the way and we could see the entire city and even farther! Pictures wont ever justify the view.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6EMx_yIH_PTIc2MnUduuCLoEdgl0Hm_jqGjUDnrBXI7Rn3YgdHQYC8P8ID21CUyr6upzTwAITmZxrqoHID4ELkT5uTVEcztPDtav8gyQ61yxagIdCIv-JmdiQ3RGVuI2sxQWa9eSqMmeU/s1600-h/Scotland+113.jpg"><span style="color:#66ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170924259846637698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6EMx_yIH_PTIc2MnUduuCLoEdgl0Hm_jqGjUDnrBXI7Rn3YgdHQYC8P8ID21CUyr6upzTwAITmZxrqoHID4ELkT5uTVEcztPDtav8gyQ61yxagIdCIv-JmdiQ3RGVuI2sxQWa9eSqMmeU/s320/Scotland+113.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#66ff99;"> Just as we got the good weather we decided that we better go back down before it got worse. Half way down the mountain the wind started to pick up again and we were glad that we werent on top of the mountain any more. We were able to see a natural well and some old Roman Ruins on the hills as we made our wayto the bottom. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#66ff99;">When we reached the bottom we looked like we had just gone swimming in the river. I was completely soaked, everything was; including my passport, journal, camera case (luckily I had kept it in my pocket so that it wasnt damaged). This put us in a delema because the clothes that we were wearing were the only ones that we had. so we couldnt go back and change...we had nothing to change into. So we went to a Starbucks right up the street and bought lunch and hot chocolate. It was a good place to relax but I think the people were a little upset with us dragging water into the cafe. Wet and cold we decided to go to the palace of Hollyrood, where the queen lives during the summer when she comes to Scotland. This is also the palace where Mary Queen of Scots lived. We were able to get audio guides and listen to the many stories that went on in this palace. We heard a story about Mary and how she was having an affair with her secretary and her husband found out and stabbed the man 57 times in her bed chamber (which we got to see!) this is the palace that she lived in before she went to England to ask Elizabeth for help, in which Elizabeth put her in prison for 19 years before her execution. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during this time period. Marys son James is the one that united Scotland and England. </span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHAZ6R2oNzbUvj_GVoZe1Jq8-yzzQBJTQCBXVv7W5e70OJo4Hp-0Cut1iz8tNE0Ft4gsaKahpiLO9v4d9lxGryclP5dmZ-rFb7Tg0zIfDGuR9pGDCbX0JuNfSQSznuEqkTDD_JWqAUft5u/s1600-h/Scotland+117.jpg"><span style="color:#66ff99;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170924268436572306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHAZ6R2oNzbUvj_GVoZe1Jq8-yzzQBJTQCBXVv7W5e70OJo4Hp-0Cut1iz8tNE0Ft4gsaKahpiLO9v4d9lxGryclP5dmZ-rFb7Tg0zIfDGuR9pGDCbX0JuNfSQSznuEqkTDD_JWqAUft5u/s320/Scotland+117.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><div><span style="color:#66ff99;">After our tour we decided that we needed a break so we found this movie that is 3D of Locness. We didnt end up going on the tour with the rest of the group so we decided that the best way to see Locness because the rain was so bad would be to see a 3D movie about it. Did you know that the Locke is as deep as 2 of the Edinburgh castles! That is so crazy. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#66ff99;">Dinner was next on the agenda and we were starving! So we found this little Italian place that was so good! The waiter started to talk to us about American politics and the elections and his friend got mad and told us that we were not allowed to discuss that kind of thing there. It was pretty funny because they are both from Italy. Nothing goes on after 6pm, so we headed back to the hostel after that. We were all so tired and we decided that one more day of not showering would probably be ok, but my hair was so bad because I hadnt washed it in 3 days so I washed my hair in the sink that night and it is just so weird because the bathrooms at the hostel are combined so males and females are together. That was weird to adjust to and I tried to not spend much time in there. That night I was looking forward to a good nights sleep and putting on dry pajama's. </span></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzr3w3ezivafRwNzuaCr9yocme_0PcWidZG1ixpgDR1zWH9HrfXxJEGkUtqTuu7qQOnLKHoto_d-1vJQrzQsA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-45879588515886022452008-02-24T15:07:00.000-08:002008-02-24T16:08:04.243-08:001st full day in Scotland!<span style="color:#ff99ff;">2/21/08</span> <div><div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">When we got to Scotland we got off the bus and headed to the bathroom to brush our teeth and get ready for a long day of walking around the city. I had my worn my pajama's on the bus and so when I put on my clothes that took a whole lot of weight out of my backpack. I only took one pair of pants for the trip and two shirts. That is about all I could take in my back pack...this was a very "light" trip. We had packed breakfast in London so we didnt have to buy anything when we got ot Scotland, so we had our breafast and headed out into the rainy city.</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">The first stop was to follow the group to help them check into their hostel. We had a really great walk past the national gallery and the Edinburgh castle to get to the hostel. As we walked there the wind was blowing like crazy and we could barely hold our ground.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfeojp3pN0Mjz19TkNqVtBGtv4swWsCvgXFEDLdL0ArlVqG7z9yIJ8PZyR6AXwiS7r9aR9KJmlpKW46BV04IAMo-2ZB6HH6vLtmsdor8pGuOU2Bty0MRgljxr85DYTM1KooBqPFdd13Le/s1600-h/Scotland+001.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170689462574499794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfeojp3pN0Mjz19TkNqVtBGtv4swWsCvgXFEDLdL0ArlVqG7z9yIJ8PZyR6AXwiS7r9aR9KJmlpKW46BV04IAMo-2ZB6HH6vLtmsdor8pGuOU2Bty0MRgljxr85DYTM1KooBqPFdd13Le/s320/Scotland+001.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">This is Kendra and I out side the hostel, we took a bunch of pictures and this is the best one that turned out...we look really good huh!</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After going to the hostel we went to the castle that you see in the back groud of the picture, The Edinburgh castle!</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">We got to see alot of cool things like the crown jewles and the castle has an amazing view that looks over the enire city. There were also doors that were on display in glass cases from the prison. It had carvings in it from the prisoners that stayed there. then there are also the canons that are always fun to see.<br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWxOb1NFk2Y_VLEQLkJtdmVQ7HkTfcwMDuQ7qMp5cwgBDAJSWfbvMGwVY9nhPggqTDBVdpTAg0UvJhsAtb8KmP4jzhksjMD1043GbjYDn-daKxtx_12o7MyLpYb5M5KBXQ8gi9TD51zV-/s1600-h/Scotland+045.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170691927885727730" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWxOb1NFk2Y_VLEQLkJtdmVQ7HkTfcwMDuQ7qMp5cwgBDAJSWfbvMGwVY9nhPggqTDBVdpTAg0UvJhsAtb8KmP4jzhksjMD1043GbjYDn-daKxtx_12o7MyLpYb5M5KBXQ8gi9TD51zV-/s320/Scotland+045.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiQ08UDCQYlcDpSxvgiQqcStHvySyfLwxG0k-Od-r8ndfVrVdAPqVP7p49TqG90M-RwevaVh8ngV9_1UyEe0jXINeM8AJXgMKj9UpQ8hR1E-3kFFQR8rvQ8KerbodoNasZcaUMsz9OYl8/s1600-h/Scotland+046.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170691936475662338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiQ08UDCQYlcDpSxvgiQqcStHvySyfLwxG0k-Od-r8ndfVrVdAPqVP7p49TqG90M-RwevaVh8ngV9_1UyEe0jXINeM8AJXgMKj9UpQ8hR1E-3kFFQR8rvQ8KerbodoNasZcaUMsz9OYl8/s320/Scotland+046.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><br /></span><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWxOb1NFk2Y_VLEQLkJtdmVQ7HkTfcwMDuQ7qMp5cwgBDAJSWfbvMGwVY9nhPggqTDBVdpTAg0UvJhsAtb8KmP4jzhksjMD1043GbjYDn-daKxtx_12o7MyLpYb5M5KBXQ8gi9TD51zV-/s1600-h/Scotland+045.jpg"></a></div><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRWxOb1NFk2Y_VLEQLkJtdmVQ7HkTfcwMDuQ7qMp5cwgBDAJSWfbvMGwVY9nhPggqTDBVdpTAg0UvJhsAtb8KmP4jzhksjMD1043GbjYDn-daKxtx_12o7MyLpYb5M5KBXQ8gi9TD51zV-/s1600-h/Scotland+045.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><br /><br /></span></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1hZE4nv5qdY4XdHdjfUiIjwWECzf3bioSPJ7_JllxhM71lKtQeswSsvmn_sjBH7hbKlUwWQjuURWWoRNGSScCDGQJ7pDsCN58-L2aIvVhzJWzO71w-42e9OKjJ-wRYzLoNNjsP68VjwI/s1600-h/Scotland+013.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170691919295793122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1hZE4nv5qdY4XdHdjfUiIjwWECzf3bioSPJ7_JllxhM71lKtQeswSsvmn_sjBH7hbKlUwWQjuURWWoRNGSScCDGQJ7pDsCN58-L2aIvVhzJWzO71w-42e9OKjJ-wRYzLoNNjsP68VjwI/s320/Scotland+013.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After the castle we decided that we needed a break and honestly I will admit that we were feeling a little tired seeing as that I hadnt had that good a night of sleep and we were just really tired from traveling so we went to a small pub to get some hot chocolate and we ended up running into Anna Gordon, Andrea, and Erin. They were having a really great meal of Haggis and black pudding. (Really groas Scottish food)<br /></span><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4VRHkqtODI3kI2Dyuvb3BCTEvEI7UbxhzOzPh24vWbX_MnFNO7xZ9TYEa98eUPCi3WfAjd-qT5sQgti4NfpqtbbEtQKEjSaAI1dNgeRF41DvrWeJxP0WbVV6nhNpF7ZDlwq51K9m2MzH/s1600-h/Scotland+049.jpg"></a></div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">While we were there I had the feeling that it would probably be easier on Kendra if I just took Aimees place at the hostel and let her stay with Kendra at her friends house. They were planning on going on a bus tour through Locness (?) the next day and it would just be a hassle if we had to figure out where I would go for the day, so I just let them go do their thing and I stayed with Anna and the girls that we saw at the pub. It turned out to be a really good idea and I was glad that I did that. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin8Q6gaHKlS2PSb5BONPW29k4HFo2Tb9m7PcRRDzy_-0DwtPC9fSIwSsTaeAePrbWVClMGRuufSX4JXfvaEt1Z_mkt-Aol1w83_UkNdbptUKesl6JoRaT4LjVB6VHhyyBdspp3FvGtHyl5/s1600-h/Scotland+052.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170694526340941858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin8Q6gaHKlS2PSb5BONPW29k4HFo2Tb9m7PcRRDzy_-0DwtPC9fSIwSsTaeAePrbWVClMGRuufSX4JXfvaEt1Z_mkt-Aol1w83_UkNdbptUKesl6JoRaT4LjVB6VHhyyBdspp3FvGtHyl5/s320/Scotland+052.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><br /></span><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4VRHkqtODI3kI2Dyuvb3BCTEvEI7UbxhzOzPh24vWbX_MnFNO7xZ9TYEa98eUPCi3WfAjd-qT5sQgti4NfpqtbbEtQKEjSaAI1dNgeRF41DvrWeJxP0WbVV6nhNpF7ZDlwq51K9m2MzH/s1600-h/Scotland+049.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170694517751007250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4VRHkqtODI3kI2Dyuvb3BCTEvEI7UbxhzOzPh24vWbX_MnFNO7xZ9TYEa98eUPCi3WfAjd-qT5sQgti4NfpqtbbEtQKEjSaAI1dNgeRF41DvrWeJxP0WbVV6nhNpF7ZDlwq51K9m2MzH/s320/Scotland+049.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div></div></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">The hot chocolate at the pub was AMAZING! They served it with a chocolate bar in it with whip cream covered on top! </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff99ff;">After the pub Anna, Andrea and Erin decided that we should start by walking down this famous street called "The royal mile" It is like a main street with tons of gift shops, a total tourist trap, kilts are sold around every corner. We found this really fun Indian shop that sold some really fun head bands and books and stuff with beads all over it. Anna called it the Gypsy store and the joke the whole time we were in Scotland was that we were "The three Gypsys." She gave us all names, Anna-Arrabella, me-gabriella and Andrea-Esmarelda. Yes I know what you are thinking, we were extremely tired! But the streets ends at Parlament and then we took a right and went down a street called "Princes Street." This was really fun but the shops that they had were nothing unusual, it looked alot like the shops that I see here in London like "Top shop" and "H&M" So we didnt spend much time there. It started to get dark and so we decided to go out to dinner and this place called "Yum Yum" It was a little place by our hostel that sold anything from Pizza and sandwiches to fish and chips. I got the fish and chips for 3 pounds! It was very exciting because the cheapest that I have seen it about 7 pounds for that so I was really happy about that. When it hits around 6 pm in Europe there isnt much to do after that besides pubs so we headed back to our hostel to get a good nights rest. Anna and Andrea were so funny the whole night. We tried to keep eachother awake late enough so that we could get a good nights sleep. We were all ready to go to bed at 7pm which wouldnt have been good, but we were so tired. Each room at the hostel had a certain name and theme to the room. Our room was themed after an old childrens book called "Mr. Men" I was Mr. happy. There was also Mr.strong, Mr. grumpy and several others. But the other part of our group stayed in the "Happy days" room. It was great!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZIVAwEr1t5r3s20kLl67sc488BNyBI0JZDq2QtCiEiHorOw51oScdK5WVEPqtw0RlDI35ETNgVhVcztXYg2zGQJCe7lygJxyIomaMllu0C2hVSlFlhm6-U5WzvwtDLiZzqzmpGdEm3Pz/s1600-h/Scotland+058.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170701767655802962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZIVAwEr1t5r3s20kLl67sc488BNyBI0JZDq2QtCiEiHorOw51oScdK5WVEPqtw0RlDI35ETNgVhVcztXYg2zGQJCe7lygJxyIomaMllu0C2hVSlFlhm6-U5WzvwtDLiZzqzmpGdEm3Pz/s320/Scotland+058.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB_z2fgZ-I1d1Pn9DqTKbZ-4SHIVvIJ-CxSbuFhpRH2V5_m7HFJ6JEpUFJ98cJfQEIf9Y4a8aSfGMCPZ2iUG-Akt_20jGpe0NypufyGBfImVfMuS1Z9EaBBrxNh0jrGUccTnP6PUXUJBOj/s1600-h/Scotland+089.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170701759065868354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB_z2fgZ-I1d1Pn9DqTKbZ-4SHIVvIJ-CxSbuFhpRH2V5_m7HFJ6JEpUFJ98cJfQEIf9Y4a8aSfGMCPZ2iUG-Akt_20jGpe0NypufyGBfImVfMuS1Z9EaBBrxNh0jrGUccTnP6PUXUJBOj/s320/Scotland+089.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje83kNug2iKyF-OcRRtyUPVaZ19h8BijVctUMVj0PqRsOjfFE8oWzXq_ixDZkzZL2Hyceov0oS0P2Ub-dj1I2hTbgSNyhVYIBTDlWy5De8zDb-i1pS15UbXKN-s8qj1lq_72z7mMWuIskg/s1600-h/Scotland+087.jpg"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170701750475933746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje83kNug2iKyF-OcRRtyUPVaZ19h8BijVctUMVj0PqRsOjfFE8oWzXq_ixDZkzZL2Hyceov0oS0P2Ub-dj1I2hTbgSNyhVYIBTDlWy5De8zDb-i1pS15UbXKN-s8qj1lq_72z7mMWuIskg/s320/Scotland+087.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-56092754442959494202008-02-24T14:52:00.000-08:002008-02-24T15:06:33.955-08:00Bus ride to Scotland<span style="color:#66ffff;">2/20/08</span><br /><span style="color:#66ffff;">Today we left on a bus for Scotland but that is just the smallest part of the night. It all started with our trip that morning to Hampton Court that I have shown you pictures on, that was on wednesday morning and the weather was freezing cold so we left early that morning to go back to our flat to pack for our trip to Scotland. At 9:30 pm we left for the bus, Me, Kate, Rebecca, Amanda and Lindsay to meet the rest of the group. We left with just our back packs and Mike is the one that had bought the tickets for all of us so we left with him (he is a really good leader, we tend to just follow him around half the time.) The plan was that I would stay with Kendra at her friends house in Edinburgh so as I look around at the bus station I dont see her or Aimee there. I started to panic...we all did because they had left a half an hour before us and it isnt that hard to find the bus station so we thought somthing had happend to them. We started loading on the bus and I am starting to get really nervous because I havnt made a reservation at a hotel or hostel. I figured though if Aimee missed the bus with Kendra I could just use her reservation at the hostel so I did at least have an option. Right as the bus driver starts up to leave I look out the window and I see 2 girls running down the hall of the bus station. They made it at the last minute! What happend is that they got on the wrong tube, they went to Earls court tube station instead of Victoria. We were so happy that we didnt have to call the center to tell the directors that we had lost 2 girls and we hadnt even made it to Scotland yet. That wouldnt have been good.</span><br /><span style="color:#66ffff;">As we got on the bus I found my way to the back, Lindsay and I sat together right infront of these guys from Scotland. They looked like they were in a band or somthing because they had guitars and stuff and they looked like they had some to drink as well so I thought about how long the bus ride would be with these guys talking behind me the whole way. Luckily my friend Kate that sat in front of me had a Lunesta sleeping pill and I took one of them. After 20 minutes I was out! Those 9 hours on the bus flew by because I was completely unconcious the whole time.</span>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-55037252824769343352008-02-23T13:17:00.000-08:002008-02-23T13:39:24.793-08:00Hampton Court!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil1Ksy_KyxN2pIeHfP7G6EfR_yEmnSCt-O15vu_IKsWCoBmVFu6RL_Wqte14PGtNglvcnMooFDV_Vz4uYfCGsmeK_QQ18Eowkl229V3_ltRve5E7xs3TaKGhKDxAf9XxIwKjGx8aa8L0HA/s1600-h/Hampton+Court+021.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170291740012955538" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil1Ksy_KyxN2pIeHfP7G6EfR_yEmnSCt-O15vu_IKsWCoBmVFu6RL_Wqte14PGtNglvcnMooFDV_Vz4uYfCGsmeK_QQ18Eowkl229V3_ltRve5E7xs3TaKGhKDxAf9XxIwKjGx8aa8L0HA/s320/Hampton+Court+021.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggzHFirNZNWAQ1FHqNUybTT87ZB_a5aa2__SieNIFCEJjGbuw4duAc2MBoYyHJGCEpceQCyEqnqGltEk9UPBDQwRdXgRZwWzGbEsChjVl_TosCeUydEudBChXo6kJkfYxerNS2RpTtFEtn/s1600-h/Hampton+Court+022.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170291765782759330" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggzHFirNZNWAQ1FHqNUybTT87ZB_a5aa2__SieNIFCEJjGbuw4duAc2MBoYyHJGCEpceQCyEqnqGltEk9UPBDQwRdXgRZwWzGbEsChjVl_TosCeUydEudBChXo6kJkfYxerNS2RpTtFEtn/s320/Hampton+Court+022.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvdlc_dHjxL8PIcFKq9jHo1j5onbbhQlnbmMVIT4D1ZtqkByjefjPyVy5-82WlYp9EYNex1m9hgBSmiDnCco02b5_54ZaaHVW4oFLpalYeRhyphenhyphenUBcAgU0tTOV_p_o2eaSwxk8frFVG0mCW/s1600-h/Hampton+Court+034.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170291808732432306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvdlc_dHjxL8PIcFKq9jHo1j5onbbhQlnbmMVIT4D1ZtqkByjefjPyVy5-82WlYp9EYNex1m9hgBSmiDnCco02b5_54ZaaHVW4oFLpalYeRhyphenhyphenUBcAgU0tTOV_p_o2eaSwxk8frFVG0mCW/s320/Hampton+Court+034.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3577CyiPgWxR19MhTDZdNjEqIZYSIDSfxgc0MUk_mZ5KoBRQ6jxqe_B2r-1Q33lvLmPLVGVStWMVz0Xl-QMLrVcLQwv11UGErVRw9ueb8_fSyWWiGnwpxUpPzSeGc40AVkLrFPXN1Jw1s/s1600-h/Hampton+Court+043.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170291825912301506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3577CyiPgWxR19MhTDZdNjEqIZYSIDSfxgc0MUk_mZ5KoBRQ6jxqe_B2r-1Q33lvLmPLVGVStWMVz0Xl-QMLrVcLQwv11UGErVRw9ueb8_fSyWWiGnwpxUpPzSeGc40AVkLrFPXN1Jw1s/s320/Hampton+Court+043.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">2/20/08</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Today is another "away" trip from the center. We normally go somewhere in England on Wednesdays and Hampton Court was a really great place to go. We started out the day at about 9am and were divided into groups of 4 because that was how we got discounts for our train tickets. I was in a group with Kate, Aimee and Emily. Then once we got to Hampton Court we met up with Kate and Mike to look around the palace. This is the palace where Henry the 8th lived and we heard alot of cool stories about Kathrine and how he found out that she was having an affair and so he had his guards drag her down the hall screaming. We got to see that hall! The palace was amazing and we got to see inside all of the rooms. We also went out into the garden where there were these really cool trees and the guard told us that if we come back in the spring the trees pollinate so much that they look like they are on fire!</span></div><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">The fog was horrible that morning so that put a damper on our plans, but while we were inside the palace the fog started to clear up so by the time that we went out to the gardens we could see everything. We also went through this maze that is really famous there and we actually did get lost considering how small it was. There is was jsut alot of fog so you really couldnt see where you were going. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We started to get extremely cold by the end and some of our friends had to be back for dinner crew so we decided to leave around 3pm. But it was definitly a great trip.</span></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-60423445918767027622008-02-13T11:18:00.000-08:002008-02-13T12:23:05.539-08:00I got to see WICKED!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacczCZuzkGrWBmgAwMqVMvn8x44S9FplfpnmH6S0M4iQ8mOaovAw26Ns02Sgdvu6L9qoTCG-cRFBhOGLvovMd6W8ljIHi96iHhHjXaS55O80xTpSRO0UXZ29NA_KQansydepYLR09ZJhP/s1600-h/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+075.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166562480039380802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacczCZuzkGrWBmgAwMqVMvn8x44S9FplfpnmH6S0M4iQ8mOaovAw26Ns02Sgdvu6L9qoTCG-cRFBhOGLvovMd6W8ljIHi96iHhHjXaS55O80xTpSRO0UXZ29NA_KQansydepYLR09ZJhP/s320/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+075.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokVPN5n-O28rHbB4X8Fn9Ey_7u54saeyyGeIzDWIAAfDzRgWIhQUjM5Ci5i0E3YRpkU5Kiu3k5AXRxXmaJqr_cY4jcAiO91r5BbAL4VcC1RnFYeGbS39BAd2uy1EPGjvijf62VdX6rGxT/s1600-h/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+080.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166562488629315410" style="FLOAT: left; 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yCIXL7afKpGTX4ehv_vhm-Rcp39ovJVvKiSsuBYKi-PY0jYexGtfBxNMZ0mD3TedEKv7DdGRZnFKMwUGYWeGQr2IUK0Z3TuQUzsXpWNKY_Nbk2WGXYWuWCa908T9wyOLia_OFC4r_H_K/s320/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+061.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYx1CeUG42ejIqqRpcGQsDo65cQXQH8izHCSBCruh-gJ37avzuIeWAXHFfwfwr97sBHlT58sUAtvUECbs-VhvbPWbLNyRnGdsbyWAWQHmzhvYJAFDwkhdBUIeK0fe4Awwq7vyGjtPVl6R/s1600-h/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+060.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166559860109330226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYx1CeUG42ejIqqRpcGQsDo65cQXQH8izHCSBCruh-gJ37avzuIeWAXHFfwfwr97sBHlT58sUAtvUECbs-VhvbPWbLNyRnGdsbyWAWQHmzhvYJAFDwkhdBUIeK0fe4Awwq7vyGjtPVl6R/s320/London-Wicked-Winsor+Castle+060.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>This week has been so incredible! It all started with monday...I had class and that wasnt very exciting because I have class from 1-4 pm and then dinner is at 5 pm and then right after dinner we have Family Home Evening for about 2 hours. So I spend alot of my day inside on mondays. So right after dinner I went and explored in the park for an hour and I took some really cool pictures of the Kensington Gardens. There was an old man that was feeding all of these squirrels and they would just eat right out of his hand. At family home evening we went to my proffesors flat, the Ostraffs. We played this game called "In the manner of the adverb" and it was so fun. The object of the game is to act out a certain adverb and the main person is supposed to figure out what adverb you are acting out. It was so fun and then we have muffins after. </em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>Tuesday I woke up and had breakfast and then I was hopeing that I would be able to go running in the park. The park is beautiful! All of the flowers are blooming the grass is so green with swans and ducks swimming in the pond/lake in the gardens. It is the best run. Well tuesday morning I found out that some people were going to get "Wicked" tickets and I really wanted to go so I scratched my run for the day and went to the box office with Rebecca, Mike and Michelle. We asked the woman at the office if we could get student tickets for the show that night and she told us that we could but the only problem was that we needed to buy two other tickets for Kate and Kristen who needed to be there to show their student ID in order to buy a student ticket. So we asked her if there were any seats available for cheap that we could get with out a student discount and she sold us 6 tickets for the FRONT ROW OF WICKED!!! And this is the best...we got them for the same price as the student tickets, 25 pounds! That night when we were getting ready for it my friend Rocky is a make up artist and she did my make up incredible for that night also she let me borrow this really pretty black dress and this huge diamond neklace. I felt so dressed up for the night and it was so fun! My friend Kate also got her make up done so we looked fabulous! When we got to Wicked the outside is exactly how I imagined broadway! The screen was all lit up with the big Wicked sign out front that we took pictures of. When we walked into find our seats we looked around us and the theater was huge! And we walked all the way to the front row in the middle!!! It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my whole life! I will never be able to describe the energy that I saw on that stage. I could see the spit coming out of their mouths when they would sing and what made it so amazing is that I could see their facial expressions while they sang. That was probably the most exciting, incredible thing I have seen here since I have been in London! Nothing beats Wicked on the front row!</em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em></em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>After the musical we wanted to get the stars to sign our books but we couldnt find them and so as we were walking away we saw this random door with some people walking out of it, and I GOT ALL OF THEM TO SIGN MY PROGRAM!!! And I got pictures with all of them! I am just so excited right now I cant even explain.</em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>Today we had to wake up at 7am because we went to Windsor Palace. It started out a not very fun morning because we stopped at this place where they have a commemoration for the Magna Carta and I will tell you that it was the longest walk in the mud and nobody warned us to wear rain boots, we were all covered in mud and I eventually got to a point where after we saw the commemoration some people wanted to walk farther in the mud and I just turned around and went back to the bud, Alot of people gave up because it was just too cold and muddy to walk any more. When everyone got back on the bus we hit the road to Windsor. As we were pulling into the city the view was so cool! There is this road called the "Long walk" where you can walk up to the palace gate but we just drove all the way to the top because it really is too long. We were able to get Audio guides that took us through the castle and they were a huge help. They told us where all of the Royal families are burried and it took us through all of the rooms and explained what happend in each room. As we were leaving we took some pictures out side of the castle jumping in the air and that took FOREVER!! Try getting 40 girls happy about taking one pictures (we had to do so many retakes!) </em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>After the castle we loaded back onto the bus and went to this church called Poke Stoges to see the grave of Thomas Grey the writer. That wasnt the most exciting part. The best for me was to see the view on the other side of the church. The view is of this enormous pond/lake and this huge mansion that was filmed in the movie James Bond! The new one! It is the one of the golf course so if you remember that part, I got to see it!</em></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#99ff99;"><em>We were all pretty burt out from the day so after that we went home and had waffles for dinner! Not just ordinary ones they were already cooked in tons of sugar. I didnt have any because seriously I could not have that for dinner so my friends Kate and I just had left overs from the night before. Any way that was my week so far I know it was really long but it has been amazing!</em></span></div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-5452897464130766372008-02-11T02:51:00.000-08:002008-02-11T04:23:55.040-08:00HAPPY VALENTINES DAY HEATH!<span style="color:#33ffff;"><em>These are the two short videos that I made for you, enjoy!</em></span><br /><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em></em></span><br /><p><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwdaXMsnG032qaeqQq6IGmli-fSn-y7HoOYKdC9h_Ry6dSjoPS2Zr0ZuU3IbEb8mLIRh1ATh2iIBrSIhwQd9A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em>This is the second video:</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em></em></span> </p><p><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzpFIyrVmC6_cAskGQFd3ygEqLwncn7Akmu-ln-zw9CZkDq3ZumTqA_0_eldXtN8csTD_uQqFZxwkqw3PNtyg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ffff;"><em>I hope that you liked them...hopefully you are able to get them to work on the computer that you are using. I love you have a good day!</em></span></p>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-2763386137862317042008-02-08T08:26:00.000-08:002008-02-08T09:48:40.438-08:002/8/08<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrM8vojk7EkWsI6Gr0a25t8a92ICbJHeX7zC8ub2T9ptJTdAlGkkYMI-dqW8qJOQwJsCnSTfbq6zwxKTaRzr07kByqfo5xXx-txVpaSAhDfVWcMW20_81aZ71jFaLZ-_KkjQJZbGVgHapR/s1600-h/London+302.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164667486842610818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrM8vojk7EkWsI6Gr0a25t8a92ICbJHeX7zC8ub2T9ptJTdAlGkkYMI-dqW8qJOQwJsCnSTfbq6zwxKTaRzr07kByqfo5xXx-txVpaSAhDfVWcMW20_81aZ71jFaLZ-_KkjQJZbGVgHapR/s320/London+302.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8MPyrEbzdIZ2UZENS_Cou8Hf4PhaeuXTvLnvc3mzSYjxryo9gJgqaa1IF2CAh0RiZyr8fFmvThkAWi86tiOrsmPGnCA4h9MAyJhx_UOrf3YQ618a5EThEnx0yP-dcSBFtNtF-5OfAeL4/s1600-h/London+307.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164667499727512722" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8MPyrEbzdIZ2UZENS_Cou8Hf4PhaeuXTvLnvc3mzSYjxryo9gJgqaa1IF2CAh0RiZyr8fFmvThkAWi86tiOrsmPGnCA4h9MAyJhx_UOrf3YQ618a5EThEnx0yP-dcSBFtNtF-5OfAeL4/s320/London+307.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff9966;">Hello once again! This week has been really busy just with Oxford and then I went to a play called "The Woman in Black" It was so scary! It is about this man that has a night mare about a certain incident that happened in his life and in order to get rid of this nightmare he makes it into a play. He wants to share it with everyone so that he can some how get rid of it. The nightmare is about this woman that lives in this old house on a marshy foggy island of of England and her ghost still haunts the house. The man goes to the house and see's the woman in black and so that is what the play is about. But my friends and I were screaming the entire time and I was so scared that the woman was just going to pop up in the audience so I had to keep my feet off the floor as well. THE BEST PLAY EVER! That night my friend Meg and I waited up until 3 am to dress all in black and then we went up stairs and crawled on the floor of Kates room and jumped up and scared her....she didnt think that it was that funny. She was really scared of the play so our plan didnt go over very well with her, but we also went to Liz's room and we crawled up the stairs because she is on the 5th floor and she thought some psycho was creeping up her stairs...she about had a heart attack it was so funny.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff9966;">Yesterday I went to the tower of London to take some pictures for an assignment and on the way I stopped off at this book store and I bought a few really good books. In the mornings I really like going running and I go to Hyde Park. there are alot of people walking their dogs and there is a lake with ducks and other birds everywhere. It is so green here! Today I walked farther into Hyde Park and I found this place where it looks like Spring has sprung! The flowers were everywhere! Red, purple, pink and yellow. The grass is bright green and the trees have all their leaves on them. It didnt look at all like it is February here. The Peter Pan statue is also there along with the Princess Diana memorial fountain which is huge. I love to go there.</span></div><br /><div></div>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-67029078747392715552008-02-06T11:48:00.000-08:002008-02-06T14:23:44.170-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q6BO22AgdP7pKd1F7xNtMfvv9qHL5A38d7DCe1KORzsLNfEHYpGBzAqNI87F2x0ZmOKusZBVufKiqlY5np6Z7X7oRpwaPwW8oDv4OLf-dlhFS98DzVtq_X3RpH04EeLK45AZpk6jmzyQ/s1600-h/Oxford+048.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163996123324703858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q6BO22AgdP7pKd1F7xNtMfvv9qHL5A38d7DCe1KORzsLNfEHYpGBzAqNI87F2x0ZmOKusZBVufKiqlY5np6Z7X7oRpwaPwW8oDv4OLf-dlhFS98DzVtq_X3RpH04EeLK45AZpk6jmzyQ/s320/Oxford+048.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfILYedUK1Depahy6TP_Q2bah3f6__icbO31BrfJIzTTITUTsmebqDehRtXR06Mh9B55XkNLdFgpleLu_I2H6ZOfNO5BMvAWj7_nwy8pzo1sCPHTt0mqlMn4QA4Y15X_n1hCiwgPHyfRe/s1600-h/Oxford+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163961450053723218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfILYedUK1Depahy6TP_Q2bah3f6__icbO31BrfJIzTTITUTsmebqDehRtXR06Mh9B55XkNLdFgpleLu_I2H6ZOfNO5BMvAWj7_nwy8pzo1sCPHTt0mqlMn4QA4Y15X_n1hCiwgPHyfRe/s320/Oxford+002.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuZ81djbaTsqu6NZlATLNpFAXsQDOWlnTtiQkdg2v-gFnYMv93RiD8kcWbq6fpOtYBpIC0VwfPNkzIiy6IZuX-Jjn8UWjxDPz5PRWNZk_SaGQIdhOupsRR_LCp6R6Syypdte5ZdsgGOhx/s1600-h/Oxford+006.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163961458643657826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuZ81djbaTsqu6NZlATLNpFAXsQDOWlnTtiQkdg2v-gFnYMv93RiD8kcWbq6fpOtYBpIC0VwfPNkzIiy6IZuX-Jjn8UWjxDPz5PRWNZk_SaGQIdhOupsRR_LCp6R6Syypdte5ZdsgGOhx/s320/Oxford+006.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><em><span style="color:#99ff99;">Today went to Oxford and the town is so small. It is not the typical campus it has four colleges on it and there are no classes held there, the students do alot of one on one work with the proffesors. We went to this place called Christs Church and it is where Harry Potter is filmed with the great dining hall and in the court yard we found the place where the weasley twins have a scene in the movie too. Here is a video of Kate and I using Magic spells in the court Yard.</span></em></div><br /><br /><br /><p><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#99ff99;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwnGyb7kfZjgEZFd-_5CKGk60adURmJeiwxKXH7g1ZeJh58I6EFeYElC962vilenPv1J-c2bsILMDMk4Z0Dzg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#99ff99;">Here is another video of us in the Great hall where they held the big meals at Hogwarts!<br /></span></em></p></div><br /><p><em><span style="color:#99ff99;"></span></em></p><br /><p><br /><em><span style="color:#99ff99;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy4D39qBrAQer-WTMuGWo2pMJcmjDnszrcOss0MhiY1Hd5oXiyaeGiUQc4vxEB7dHIUMoFgeQVgvfhSEI5_1A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="color:#99ff99;">We saw alot of really cool stuff today along with these beautiful gardens... which are located at the top of this blog! </span></em></p><br /><p></p>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-64609096697233876572008-02-05T03:11:00.000-08:002008-02-05T03:24:02.003-08:002/1/08<em><span style="color:#66ffff;">Today was our last day in Paris and I am so glad! It has been amazing but I can honestly say that I have done everything possible in Paris that there is to do. Verssailles would be fun again in the summer but that would be the only thing. Last night was so cold that I slept with my coat on again and it was so hard for me to wak up this morning. My friend Kate sat up in her bed and said to me in a sleepy voice " I am not going anywhere today!" And then she went back to her bed and she whined about how she didnt want to go back out into the rain again today. We were all complaining but it was so funny. We had breakfast and then we had our last meeting together before we would meet at the train station that night. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#66ffff;">Last night we went to this Lingerie store and I think that I left my back of suvineers there and they got stollen because I couldnt find them anywhere that night. I was really mad about it but at the same time I am thankful that it wasnt my wallet or anything like that. The stuff in the bag was replaceable and it was only about $11 so that was better then a huge amount of stuff. Today I replaced it all anyway. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#66ffff;">We went to the biggest graveyard in all of Paris today and it was so cool and creepy! We got to see Mozarts grave and the rain was coming down like crazy, it was a great place to play hide and seek! </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#66ffff;">After that we went to this place called the Pomedu. It is a modern art museum and the building itself is the best part. All of the piping is on the outside of the building. So my friend Kendra and I just wanted to see the outside and that was it and then we went over to this museum called the Rodin Museum. It is actually in Rodins house, he was a sculpture (the creator of the Kiss and the Thinker) both were amazing to see! </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#66ffff;">After the museum we went to the Orangerie with Kate, Rebecca and Mike to see Monets paintings of the lilly pads. He told the Museum that they could display them if they displayed them in Oval rooms and that is what we saw. When we would go in these museums they have a "cloak room" and you can take them your back packs and coats...its so nice because we had so much stuff! </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#66ffff;">After that we went back to Socra Couer to get some suvineers and get rid of the rest of our Euros. At 6:30 pm we headed to the train station and we stayed there until we left. There was not anything left to do in Paris! We were done!</span></em>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-25845714668867246142008-02-05T02:50:00.000-08:002008-02-05T03:10:45.907-08:001/31/08<em><span style="color:#ffccff;">1/31/08 Today was thursday in Paris and I can honestly say that I am completely exhausted and cant wait to go back to our flat in London. English people are alot nicer and cleaner the the French. After breakfast today we went to this museum called the Orsay. It had tons of famous paintings like Renior and Van Gogh and Degas. Proffesor Ostraff lectured for our art class for the first hour and then we were free to roam around. My friend Amy and I saw this escalator that went up stairs and so we jumped on, what we didnt realize is that there were no stairs to come back down...so we got lost for a while. To our surprise those stairs led us to the coolest part of the museum...the ballerina paintings by Degas! And I actually bought two of the prints in the gift shop because I loved them so much. Some of us are so burnt out from looking at Museums that was had to sit down in the hall for a while and take a break because the French for some reason do have any where to sit in any museum (I figured that out early on). After the Orsay Museum we went to the Metro to catch an RER train to Versailles. The RER is a train that goes out to the suburbs of Paris and it is very convenient for tourists because it goes through the city itself. Well the RER is alot more complicated then the Metro because it travels farther and everything is in Frech once again! It took us three hours to get there, when we finally figured out where we were going we stopped at this little cafe where we bought our RER tickets and I bought this crab pita sandwich...so good! After we all had somthing to eat we were in a much better mood and so we got back on the train and headed to Versailles. When we got there we were all surprised because we were expecting it to be in the coutry because we have seen pictures of the gardens and everything. It was the exact opposite. There was city all around it and then you hit this road where you turn right and there is this huge old palace with gardens all around it. It was so cold outside and when we got there our first response was " lets get this over with." We were given these museum passes that let us into the palace and all over Paris for free so that was nice. When we got inside I bought this headset, best decision I have made this whole trip! It took me through each room of the palace on a guided tour telling me about all of the rooms and what took place in them. The palace was owned by King Louis and Marie Anntionnette, who was eventually beheaded. Each room is painted with a special design of either gold, silver, or red. This is the palace that is famous for having the "Hall of Mirrors." These people were so bizzare int he way that they spent money. Going to Verssailles was honestly the best part of the whole trip. I wish that I could go back in the summer to see the gardens and everything.<br />For dinner we went to this place by Notre Dame, there was a group of ten of us and we all got different kinds of Pizza's. I feel like I have spent so much money on food its insane...but really, I dont regret it at all because it all was so good!</span></em>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-91792664646989087922008-02-04T07:22:00.000-08:002008-02-04T07:49:07.068-08:00<em><span style="color:#ccccff;">1/30/08 This morning I hit my snooze button twice before I actually got out of bed. Paris wore me out! Once again I slept with my coat on. We all did and Kate slept with that blanket with the booger on it again, its so funny. After breakfast we had a meeting again about things that they wanted us to do in Paris and then we were able to go our own ways. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ccccff;">We went the to Arc De Triumph and saw the tomb of the unknown soldier where they have a candle lit all the time for him. </span></em><br /><p><em><span style="color:#ccccff;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwzt80vNa9jh95tlkR1CEOmU0tgXoTx4-Jw5xIUNRN5oRcREWSrxl58uIiTKtX7dyM-pNPjhAMcaa_mQ_LLjw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color:#ccccff;">Once again we had to climb up the stairs and it felt like they were never ending as well. But the view was worth it when we got to the top. I was kind of grumpy after an hour of taking pictures because I really wanted to go the the Louvre Museum. The Arch is cool but it is really old after a while. The Museum was incredible! I saw paintings by David and Van Gogh. I also saw the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo the statue and Winged Victory. The only reason I knew about these things are all because I my horrible humanities class that I suffered through last semester, I actually thank that proffessor now because he prepared me for all of these things! When we walked out of the Museum there was this really cool sunset that had the Eiffel tower in the background. It was so pretty! We were inside the museum for about 4 hours which wasnt as bad as you think because there were so many cool things there.<br />For dinner that night we went to this place called "Hugos." It was so fun, just this little cafe that had French cuisine. I got this creamy pasta with Salmon in it, I got about half way through it and I was so full, they had so much food! The restaurant use to be outside so they covered it with plastic things and we had a heater over us with candles lit every where, so pretty. We recommended it to some of our friends for the next day and when they went they got ot listen to this guy sing while they ate their dinner. We went to this little bakery across the street after and they had these cute little wedding cakes they looked like. And tons of eclairs and stuff like that. It was a really cute little place. That night my friend Kendra and I went to this internet cafe that was owned by an Arab guy and he smoked up a storm. We were there for the shortest amount of time possible. </span></em></p>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136797756871513403.post-60225884840099168232008-02-04T06:46:00.000-08:002008-02-04T07:12:06.470-08:002nd day in Paris!<em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">Today is the 20th of January and I am completely exhausted from walking around yesterday. Our hotel room is freezing cold so I wore my coat to bed. The heater in our room works but not very well. That morning I woke up at 7:30 am to take a shower (we have mold dripping from our sealing when it gets too steamy in side) so that I could have an early breakfast before we left to walk around the city again. For breakfast at the hotel they have, bread...bread and more bread. Oh and cheese! But no fruit of veggies. They also serve hot chocolate for breakfast with chocolate toast. No body brought blow dryers or straight irons for their hair so we had to go all natural every day that we are there. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We had so many people in my group that day that every one was onry. So many people wanted to do different things and its hard to please 11 girls in Paris so we had to find a way to separate. That morning we went to the San Chappel. It is the cathedral with all of this beautiful stained glass on the top room of the building. My friends Michelle and I thought that it would be funny to talk like British people, and see who could go the longest. We did it for about 3 hours. We went through security and everything at the cathedral like that. It was so funny. After we walked back down the stairs in the cathedral we realized that we had lost two of our girls... Laurie Rocky Rane and Erin. They kind of wandered off and so we spent an hour looking for them. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">After we found them we went to Notre Dame Cathedral! It was amazing and no we didnt ever see Quasimodo. But we did climb up to the bell tower. The stairs to the top seemed never ending. It was a spiral staircase in a tower that we had to climb up and you could never see the end so it just kept going. When we got to the top we saw the most incredible view of Paris. You could see the Eiffel tower and Sucre Couer. There was a perminant fog over the city and the limb to the top was totally worth it. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">When we came back down there was a little art store where I bought some prints of different sites that I went to that day and I bought the most amazing ham and cheese crepe that they made right in front of me at this stand.</span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We continued on to the Pantheon that was massive! The French people call it "The temple of the Nations." We decided to draw inside for a while to get some hours in for my art class. When we walked out of the building it started to get really cold so we stopped at this small pasterie place and had some treats. These little French kids heard us speaking English and decided that it would be funny to mock us about our language. So they started singing and we realized that they were singing high school musical. It was so funny we started laughing with them and then they went away. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">That night we went to this mall in Paris that is a huge designer place. The clothes were extremely expensive so I went outside to look at some of the stands on the road side. I bought some perfume at a small stand for 10 euros! It was a steal, and the Perfume is calle "Jerdin de Paris!" </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#ffcccc;">We finally decided to leave at 7 pm because we were so tired before we went to the hotel we made a stop at this grocery store and I bought some French candy, they are small coke cola bottles that taste just like the real thing!</span></em>Pulham Family Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06120735892346300050noreply@blogger.com0