Stonehenge and Stories

This morn, we got up early to take a tube/train/bus trip to Stonehenge! 

That was very cool. I loved the train ride and even took a nap as it was only just after 8 you know ;)  Once we got there, we to Salisbury, we took a bus to Stonehenge. It was very busy but fortunately our driver was able to take us around the short way to get in faster and receive free audio tours. Stonehenge is actually meaning "hanging" stone, as 'henge' means stone. We walked around a distanced perimeter and then hopped on the bus, on the way back, we stopped for an hour or so at Old Sarum.

Old Sarum is the ancient ruins of a castle, built for Henry III. It's base was a mixture of the traditional stone blocks and "flint cement" (basically a medieval cement that had large chunks of flint in it). You can tour and touch this piece of history, surrounded by wide views (it's on a hill) and gorgeous wildflowers in the summer. 

Just before the train we stopped and saw the other Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral (in the chapter house). Also picking up some lunch :)

Tonight: We just finished the Ceremony of the Keys. Turning the final lock was a great way to end the time in London. 

-Sage

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Phantom and Carta

We got to see the Magna Carta today at the British library along with some early bibles, the original Alice in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures Underground), some original Beatles lyrics and Beethoven's tuning fork :)

We saw the Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Theatre where it debuted in London :) The play had some GREAT singing but in my opinion, it was very creepy and I don't ever really want to see it again.

Just as a note. We came across a gay (and not the happy meaning of the word) parade. Now, I'm not for them, but I'm not against them either. I'm not the type of Christian who says "you'll burn in hell for this!" But I'm not the type of person who's all "Yay! You're gay? Cool!" either. I do believe its wrong, and that you need to straighten up and fly right. But I'm not going to condemn you for it either. It's against my religion. That's all.

I have no clue if the police or the activists were in charge of traffic control. But whoever was did a HORRIBLE job. We got off the tube at Picadilly Circus station and had to walk all the way down to Pall Mall then cut over to Trafalger, then around to Haymarket JUST to get to our theater. And instead of being on time (like we would've should've there been no parade) we were at least half a hour late.

Tomorrow we all get to go to Salisbury and Stonehenge. Woohoo!

-Sage

Things in London #1

Saw two boys who pretty closely resemble Josh Hutcherson. One lady who could've looked more like Katniss than the person who plays her and a British taxi cab that had a Mickey antenna decoration on its antenna! When I fan girl scream over the Rosetta Stone.

A store sign that read, Life Savers, dagger canes & sword sticks (plus it made umbrellas!)

The corner of a building looked like ships prow

Swatches!

A giant Disney store, (that I sadly have not yet been able to go into)

Wafflemeister (Assumedly, a place that made waffles. Drew this is for you)

Mind the GAP (you know, the store :)

I'm not perfect, I'm limited edition (On someone's t-shirt)

Lets face the music and dance (quote from Tophat)

Parliament and Plays + Flights and Views

A rather long activity went on yesterday, and the day before that! It was called a 'flight across the pond' (please feel free to say that in your best British accent darling) and boy were we jet lagged. After finding our hotel, and dropping off our luggage and connecting to wi-fi... we sat and played and updated our dear electronics, sucking off the hotel's executive suite wi-fi. Ahhh, the good old days. Yesterday, we trekked around London quite a bit. We tried out the tube (I didn't see Merlin or Arthur, which, was rather disappointing.) We even got to try out the double-decker buses! (The roofed ones that is) and the sun even came out! We saw it shining on the glorious Big Ben and parliament building. (Sigh)

Upon returning to our hotel room, we immediately collapsed onto our beds (it being that you're not supposed to sleep where you are, so that you adjust quicker, resulting, in fact, in me even falling asleep with my eyes open 😟) then got up, mum and I put our jammies on sent Dad to find food! (In our defense, we all hadn't eaten and he offered.) He came back with some delicious strawberries and a croissant and rice! My dad and I ate and then fell asleep. (Mom was already out :)

So... Now for the evening news. This morning, we walked up Jubilee Drive and past Buckingham Palace, St. James palace and the National Gallery!  This afternoon and evening I saw ( in order) the plays, Top Hat and One Man, Two Govners. This first one, Top Hat, was great! Kind of White Christmas meets Twelfth Night. But better :) second one, One Man Two Govners, is okay a lot of the humor was fantastic but one poor volunteer had water dumped on her and fire extinguished (and no, she wasn't on fire) poor thing... Apart from that, the play was rather funny. 

Now for some pictures...

      The view from the executive lounge!

More tomorrow!

Goodnight to you all!

Sage

Finally!

Hi there! We finally started our trip to Europe! We are currently in London, and let me tell you, it has been VERY fun, though exhausting. This is our second day after the long flight from the U.S. of A. Yesterday, we saw the outside of the prime minister's house, the outside of Big Ben, the London Eye and the outside of the Parliament building (where it appears to has been a garden party yesterday too! Along the Thames). This is just going to be a short post with no pictures because we're about to head off again to... Buckingham palace! 

More this afternoon,

 Sage