long walks

These last few days have been crazy busy, so for now I'm just going to do the highlights of each day.

Wednesday: Meredith and I went to the Wallace Collection - a beautiful collection of art in a historic townhouse.  An adorable elderly British lady gave us our tour and she knew so much! That afternoon we toured Kensington Palace.  They had a special exhibit about Queen Victoria that was fascinating, especially in light of our class and the movie.  I never realized how tiny Victoria was, she couldn't have been more than 5'1''!  A group of us went to see "Richard III" that night and it was well-done though I fell asleep during the end of it.  I was awake for the ending but I wouldn't have been able to follow it had I not already known the history!  It was certainly interesting to see how Shakespeare tweaked history.

One of my favorite paintings from the Wallace Collection.

Victoria's wedding dress

Thursday: Classes and catching up on homework.

 Friday:  A fantastic day! We went to the Tower of London in the morning and a group of us stayed there until lunch time just exploring the buildings and reading the history.  After doing some homework we went out for dinner to an Italian restaurant that was fantastic. I got a chicken and rosemary pizza that also had peppers and goat cheese. I was in heaven. We went to the mall to get some frozen yogurt at Snog (also delicious!) and then on my way home I stopped for some lunch food items and my friends and I ended up trying another frozen yogurt place (Yogland) that I almost like better than Snog.

My amazing pizza.

Saturday:  We went on an amazingly fun and wonderful walk through Kent.  We took the train out to Eynesford and walked through adorable little towns and tramped through the muddy countryside for about ten miles stopping once at some ruins and again at a cute little shop.  Pretty much one of my favorite days, ever.

One of many photos.