Mid-term break excitement

I know it's been awhile since I blogged, and for that I apologize. I've been using internet at school, which is nice, but then once the day is done I don't really want to stick around to write about my day, I just want to go home to bed!! We still don't know when we are getting internet at home. I heard a rumour of next week, but this new company that Megan insisted that we go with requires us to buy our own wireless router. I think it's easier just to do internet at home and not have the hassle of having to divide all the assets and then decide who gets to keep them at the end. Long story short, we have signed up to use the internet at the library. Hopefully it works for the short term.

Enough complaining, I want to tell you about our week so far! Our mid-term break officially started on Friday, and believe me, I didn't stick around to see how long I could wait before I got out of there. Megan and I were offered a ride home by one of the teachers who happens to live just down the street, and we were home in record time. Ryan and I went out for dinner, then came home and vegged. I needed that after the week I'd had. Oh, I guess I should mention, I had parent-teacher interviews on thursday. They went ok, better than I expected, but the build up for that night and the stress of actually having to meet with the parents was enough to make me really need this week off!! Most of the parents that I didn't actually want to meet with ended up not coming anyway, so it's all good. Anyway, Saturday we slept in, had quite a lazy day, went to the market and bought some christmas presents and just took it easy. Sunday was supposed to be more of the same, but we ended up going on a tour with Megan, Katie, Tom, and Emma. It wasn't too expensive, so we hopped a bus and headed to Stonehenge, Avebury, and Devizes. It was supposed to be fun, but in all honesty, it wasn't really. It poured rain the entire day (and I mean, we were soaked from our shoes all the way to our waists). It was far, and there was supposed to be a market at Devizes, which was the reason to go, but it was closed on sundays. Why would they run the tour on a day that it was closed? I don't get it. We didn't go into Stonehenge because we knew that we were going on Tuesday, so all in all it was a bit of a wasted day. Actually, that's not totally true, we did have one fantastic "Amazing Race" moment. We have started downloading this season, so please please please don't tell me what happens if you know. We were back in London, and were just hopping on the tube to go home, when an announcement came on saying that the District Line was backed up, and to expect significant delays until at least Whitechapel. Read this to mean that the train we needed to get home would take forever. The nice thing about the tube system in London is that they all interconnect at some point, and so Ryan and I started plotting the fastest route home. We had decided that we would hop off at the next stop, jump on the Picidilly Line, take that five stops to the Circle Line, then take that five stops where it would re-connect with the District line on the other side of whitechapel. Megan wouldn't hear it, she wanted to stay on the train, insisting that it wouldn't take too long. Meanwhile we had already been sitting still for 5 minutes. I said, fine, but we were going to do our plan, and let's see who gets home first. We hopped off, ran to the next train and were on our way. We would have beaten them home too, except the 86 bus that takes us to our house was severely delayed because of a car accident. If we had walked when we first got to the station we would have done it for sure. Anyway, Monday we had our first experience with the overland train. It is much more complicated than the tube, and is not nearly as clearly marked. It took us awhile, but we figured it out. We went to our national insurance number meetings, which took forever by the way, and spent the rest of the day wandering London and just having a good day.

Yesterday was the best day of the week so far. We went on our originally scheduled tour to Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, and Bath. I do have pictures, but the computers at the library don't let us plug in the usb key, so you will just have to wait. We started with Windsor Castle, which was a blast. The queen was even there while we were, and left while we were there (we know because the flag changed) but she didn't invite us in for tea. I can't imagine why not. We saw the chapel, St. Mary's doll house, and some of the rooms of the castle. We even saw where the queen eats dinner. It was pretty cool. Then it was off to Stonehenge. It is much nicer when it's not pouring rain!! We were surprised though, it was different than what we expected. Firstly, it was a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be. Also it was much better protected (as in, you can't touch it, you are at least 15 feet away at all times). We got some nice pictures, and the sun was starting to come out, so it was turning into a nice day. Finally we saw the Roman Baths in Bath. That was super cool, and amazing to think that we were walking on the same ground and seeing the same things as people were thousands of years ago. Bath is a beautiful town, and we want to go back again, but probably not until we have seen other things first. We didn't really have time to do much sightseeing in town, and we could spend a whole day there just looking through shops and at the scenery. The scenery along the road was magnificent. It looked like what I expected England to look like. Not like where we live, it's not representative of the landscape as a whole. There were lots of sheep too.

That brings us to today. We are going grocery shopping, and then we just found out that we have tickets to see "blue-man group" tonight. Should be a good time. Oh yeah, and we are going to see "Stomp" tomorrow.

We are getting two new roommates tomorrow also. Two girls (as far as we know) are taking the two empty rooms in the house. Everyone (and by everyone I mean Megan and Katie) keep complaining that there won't be enough room, and the fridge is too small, and how will we cook with 7 people in the house? Please. Give me a break. First of all, Megan has a fridge all to herself. You can't tell me that four people can share one fridge, but she can't fit three into the other one? Right. As for the cooking, we will just have to come up with a system. Or at the very least, keep doing what we are doing and let the others fit in around us. I don't know what all the complaining has to be about. Honestly.

Ok, that's it for now. I'll post again for sure when I get back to school.
Love you all.