The Travels

So, it's been a couple weeks since I actually blogged about my life in London, so I'll try to catch up here somewhat quickly. A couple weeks ago we went to Canterbury as a program and walked around the cathedral. It was quite impressive. The building itself was quite large and the detail inside was incredible. There was stained glass that would have costed a ton to get and was neat to look at. We were only in Canterbury for a couple hours so we didn't have a ton of time, but it was enough time. There wasn't too much else in the town. The only other thing I did was eat in a pub with a really really low ceiling that I had to duck under till I got to my seat, not much fun. At least I didn't hit my head, like someone else.

After going to Canterbury we went to Leeds Castle. I was pretty excited to go to a castle, but this castle wasn't what I expected a castle to be like. It's pretty sad that they have a maze near the castle, and the maze was more fun than the castle itself.

This past weekend, me and four other guys went to Liverpool to see the Beatles stuff. We left London Euston station at 5:39 am. That meant we had to leave Vandon house at 4:20 to get to a bus station to make it to Euston. Waay too early. We got to Liverpool around 9 and started walking around and went on a bus tour that took us to important places in Liverpool for the Beatles. That night we went out and about and at one of the pubs we had a lady come up to us and tell us how good we did tonight performing. So the other guys went along with it and she told us she wanted us to join with another group she knew and make a new band. It was quite entertaining. I ended up leaving the others and going back so I could get some sleep because we were getting up the next morning and leaving at 9:20 to go to Manchester. Once we got to the train station on Saturday, one of the guys couldn't find his tickets, so he went to the information booth and they said since he lost them, he would have to buy another ticket, so he decided to just get another ticket back to London. We were originally trying to get tickets to a Manchester United game, but that didn't happen, so we stayed in Manchester for a couple hours then got a train to go to Bangor, Wales, and see some of our friends there. While in Bangor, I got to hang out with friends I hadn't seen in a while and we went to karaoke, which was a good time. On Sunday, the Bangor program had a day trip, and there were enough seats on the bus for us to go, so we got to go to a castle and also a small village which was quite neat and colorful. That was pretty much the weekend, and not much else has happened other than the weekend trips I have typed about.