routine

This last week has been pretty normal.  We finished up our classes and have started getting ready for final exams as well as finishing up a few last papers.  It's weird that we only have this next week in London and then a week trip to the West Country next week.  It's all passed by so quickly, I'm not sure I'm ready for it to be over.  Highlights from this last week include seeing "Let It Be" on Wednesday night.  I had no idea what to expect and assumed it was a story about the Beatles with their music.  Instead, it was four guys as the Beatles, playing set after set of songs; basically a Beatles concert.  They were quite good and it was just a fun night of singing and dancing.

         The other fun event this week was going to Kew Gardens on Friday.  They are the Royal Botanic gardens set on 300 acres of land close to London.  It was quite chilly that day, so a friend and I went to two different glasshouses, one for the tropics, the other was a temperate house.  We also saw Kew Palace and the remains of the Royal Kitchen which were rather boring.  We did do a tree-top walk which was really neat and we saw the Japanese pagoda but it was not open for visitors.  The estate is huge and the flowers are starting to come up, but it would have been much nicer had the sun come out to stay.  On our way back to the tube station there was a bakery stand of pastries and sandwiches.  I got a salami and brie baguette sandwich that was delicious!  Market foods are so awesome.

view from the tree-top walk