Top of the morning!

It's not morning...I just wanted to title this blog with that.

We had an exciting night on Monday. The fire alarm went off at 2am, I guess Ms. Shepherd (she's an "elderly" woman who lives up in one of the flats...she owned it before BYU bought the property. There's a little background for you!) left her oven on to heat up her kitchen and then fell asleep. So the fire alarm works and nothing burnt down. But it was all the students and teachers downstairs in their pajamas...kind of weird if you think about it.

I went to Kensington Palace with Sarah and we got to see Queen Victoria's bedroom and some of Princess Diana's dresses. And we saw how lace was made by hand...INSANE! There were about a million pins and 3 million wooden needles used to make one ribbon of lace. Yikes.

We went to Sir John Soane's house Tuesday...it's a museum! He was a professor and collected all these artifacts and an Egyptian crypt and roman statues and Napoleon's ring (with a lock of his hair! Weird) This guy was crazy-his house was filled with thousands of this kind of things and who knows how he got them.

Then we went to Brighton to see the Royal Pavillion-it's this crazy palace that looks like the Taj Mahal but is decorated like China on the inside...it's really extravagant and awesome! There was a pier too...but the rides were closed! Oh January...you're so cold.

Hastings was the second stop, where the Normans and Anglo-Saxons battled it out and alas, the English lost! We took the walk around the battlefield and chased some sheep! The Battle Abbey was half gone, but we walked through where the monks used to live.

We stopped by a little town, Rye, on the way home. It had cobble stone streets and cute little shops and cottages but the people weren't very happy to have Americans around because they overcharged Margaret on her hot cocoa! We saw the Mermaid Inn, it was built in the 14th century!

Today...was boring! Not really. I went to the Tate Britain and got through 4 out of the 50 rooms. Curry was for dinner and I'm in love. But I love Frog's frozen yogurt more...especially when blackberries are involved. And especially when there's a hazelnut kit-kat waiting for me in the grocery store...and then when a piece of toast with nutella wants me to eat it when I get home. This is my day without homework. I should do something about that.