Sorry guys. I am really bad about updating my blog... and uploading pictures. I'll get around to it sometime, I promise. Last week I went to Dreamboats and Petticoats. It was a musical based entirely around music from the sixties. Think Hairspray but without original music. It was really cute and I liked it a lot.
I got to go to Camden market last weekend. Camden is this huge outdoor market with tons of cool shops and SO much food. They had the best chocolate covered strawberries I have ever had. Plus they put on hazelnuts for free. England puts hazelnuts with everything!
On Monday I went to see Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband". It was so funny. Although the beginning was kind of slow, it ended up being a very humorous show and I was very glad to see it.
Today I went to Oxford and fell in love. Not with a British guy, unfortunately. I fell in love with the school.. It was so amazing. The architecture is exquisite. I felt smarter just walking on the campus. The people there are so nice and the campus is the best thing I have ever seen. Maybe for graduate school...

It's been a crazy couple of days. On Monday night I went to the Swan Lake Ballet. It was so much fun. I didn't know how I would feel about going to a ballet, but I loved it! Yesterday I went to Southall. It is the Indian section of London. I got to go to a temple which was really cool. We had to take off our shoes and cover our heads. We went and sat on the floor and listened to music. It was a new experience, but a very exciting one!
This morning we went to the London temple. We were able to do baptisms for the dead while we were there. It was a really neat experience to get away from the city for a few hours and be at the temple. Although the temple is an hour and a half drive from our house, it was totally worth the travel time.

Man, I can't believe it has been that long since the last time I posted on my blog. Sorry to anyone who has actually been reading about my adventures in London. I will try to post more regularly. More pictures are to come, but not right now because the internet is being really slow. Many things are better in Europe, the internet is NOT one of them.
Last week I was able to take a trip to Scotland. It was absolutely amazing. I tried haggis (not so good), saw men in kilts, but did not hear anyone playing the bagpipes. Oh well, at least I got to out of three on the stereotypical list of things to do in Scotland. I climbed King Arthur's seat and it was amazing!! It was this really tall mountain (by European standards) and from the top we could see everything. What I loved most about Scotland was that it was a mixture of every type of beautiful thing that you can imagine. From the top of the mountain I could see; fields, rivers, lakes, forests, and the entire city of Edinburgh. It was amazing to see such a mix, with castles and modern buildings everywhere you turned.
While on my trip to Scotland I saw such highlights as; The Elephant House (the cafe where J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book), 2 castles, the Scottish Parliament building,and the William Wallace Monument.
I also ate the most incredible dessert I have ever had in my entire life. It was called a brownie sundae sandwich and it was a layer of brownie, a layer of ice cream, and another layer of brownie. On the side they gave you a cup of chocolate soup. They only way to describe chocolate soup is a warm, melted, liquefied bar of Belgium chocolate. By far the best thing that I have eaten since coming to Europe. Yum!!!
I stayed at my first hostel. It was not as bad as I was expecting it to be, but then again, I knew all 8 of the girls that were in my room. Had they been random strangers, they probably would have been a little too close for comfort. One of the hostels that we stayed at had a beautiful view of a cemetery.
I am now back in London and will be going to see the Swan Lake ballet tonight. Happy Valentine's Day to me!!! I need to go do homework, but Happy Valentine's Day. I love you all!

On Saturday I went to the houses of Parliament. It was really cool to see everything and learn about all of the ceremonies. They have so many random ceremonies here that are older than America. It's really cool but insane. After the tour we ran into the protest you see above. The students are very unhappy that their tuition is being raised and this is the second protest they've had since I got here.

The promised pictures. This is punting at Cambridge. You pretty much go out in this flat bottomed boat and get pushed by this guy with a long stick. I learned lots of useless information from my tour guide as seen above. I can now tell you many of the stupid laws that England has enforced over the years such as; during a certain period windows could only be a certain size, and there could only be two clock towers in a one hundred foot radius of each other during a certain point in time. This guy also new how many people in America get injured falling off of a tramp every year or die due to swallowing pennies. Overall, punting was an interesting experience that I would definitely repeat.

This week has been great I went to Les Mis and had afternoon tea at Kensington Palace, complete with an English Scone, finger sandwiches, and miniature desserts. I also went on a nine mile walk through the countryside. I felt like I was in a Jane Austen novel. I went to the National Gallery which was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. So many amazing artists all in one place. Museums are definitely one of the coolest parts of being in London.