Stonehenge Bath

The weather this weekend has been beautiful! I am lucky to be living so close to st. James Park and Hyde Park. The leaves are changing color on the trees and the temperature has been just right lately. A friend and I went and just walked around the park the other day just soaking up what little sun we have left for the year.

Going to see Wicked was AMAZING! I loved it! It is a musical about how the two witches of Oz used to be friends and ended up how they were in the Wizard of Oz. I had already heard some of the songs from the musical before, but I just didn't know it.

Yesterday we had our day trip to Stonehenge and Bath. We left Vandon house really early in the morning and traveled via a coach. We spent about an hour walking around Stonehenge, it is thought that this World Wonder was built around 2200BC. It was just an incredible sight!

Bath was next on our trip. We got dropped off to do a little bit of exploring on our own and then had an appointment scheduled to go through the Romans Baths. For lunch we found a random pub/restaurant that had some good american food options. We also got a little humor out of reading the menu...

The buildings and streets of Bath were beautiful! There was a man playing music in the middle of the town square that had rigged up this machine so that he could play a violin with his hands while playing a guitar with his feet. It looked so neat and his music sounded so good too!

We also got to see the ancient baths and hot springs that the ancient Romans used. They used to believe that the water had healing powers but I don't think that's the case today! The water was green and really disgusting in the large pool outside. Sadly I missed seeing Jane Austin's house and museum, maybe I will get a chance later to take another day trip back to Bath.

I love how it seems like everything is so close to London! We have been able to go some really neat and historic places that are all with in 100-200 miles of us. I am so thankful that I am able to spend an entire semester over here and be able to do some traveling too.

One new and kind of exciting thing that has been going on... the value of the pound is going down! As a result of the banks failing and Brown/UK putting something like £700 billion into the stock exchange I am getting a better exchange rate, last time I checked it is down to £1 is about $1.62, it used to be that £1 was $2 when I first got here so I am not complaining!