So sorry it's been awhile since I have updated but I did not bring my computer with me to England so I haven't been able to get my e-mail! I am going to break-up England into a few different posts so that you are not overwhelmed and hopefully the formatting works better this time!
First off—let me say that we had only one day of class between Ireland and England and I have to admit that it’s pretty fun when as you leave class your professor yells, “Have fun in England, your paper is due when you get back and I will see you after Belgium!” I love that we have so much time in the ports but it is weird when you don’t have a class for two weeks and know that you have to remember everything from the last time—oh well.
So, England. The first day Danielle, Sarah, Amy and I went to Stonehenge! (I will get you pictures as soon as I can). We took the bus from Southampton to Salisbury and then took the tour to Stonehenge and Old Serum –which is the ruins of an old fort. We had lunch in Salisbury at this cute little restaurant that had over 100 different kinds of milkshakes—I got Cadbury caramel :) Then we headed out to Stonehenge which was amazing. They no longer let people walk up to and through the rocks but we were able to get fairly close and took lots of really goofy pictures that involved us jumping or optical illusions that made it look like we were holding Stonehenge in our hands. Then we went to Old Serum and just walked around for a bit as none of us really knew what it was but there was a really great view from the top of the fort.
Some random information that I feel compelled to tell you for some reason :) We (Danielle, Sarah and I) have started a quote book full of random and funny things that we say—or hear others say—while we are here. Basically it is just a huge inside joke so I will spare you the stories but we think its prett cool. We have also started lists of “Only on SAS” and “Problems only SASers have” because there are so many things that seem really weird here that would never happen back home—but that’s the best part! Other things—now that we are surrounded (essentially) by land masses the waves are not as big, and we are also travelling very slowly so that helps. Basically, we could have crossed the Atlantic in about 2 ½ days but we needed to go slower to allow time for us to have class. Therefore now that we are travelling from Ireland to England and England to Belgium we are practically crawling. In fact, last night we got a little ways off the cost of England and literally dropped anchor in the sea version of a parking lot so that we wouldn’t waste fuel by oh so slowly making our way to the mainland.
Well, I will tell you about the other days in England in the next few posts so I’ll leave this one for now!
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