plays, baths, rocks, football, and the queen!!

As you can probably guess from the heading, this past weekend was very busy!

Here's basically what I've been doing (sorry the pictures are pretty random, I apparently still haven't figured out how to add them correctly):







On Friday, a group of us went to Stonehenge. I'll admit that while I'm glad I went to see it, this probably wasn't the most exciting thing I did during the weekend.










On Friday, we also went to Bath. This is a picture from inside the abbey. I couldn't believe how advanced this architecture was for the time period during which it was built! We are studying these types of elaborate cathedrals in humanities right now, so it's very interesting to be able to first read about it, then come and look at it.















This is another view from the back of Bath Abbey.




















This is my friends, Natalie and Rachel, and me at a football game we went to on Saturday. Even though people have already told me, I never really believed that soccer was so big in Europe until I actually saw it for myself! It is crazy!! Fans were chanting, singing, yelling, fighting, etc throughout the whole game. Quite an experience!
















On Thursday night, we saw Wicked! It wasn't directed too much differently from the US version (which I've already seen), but the fact that Glinda and the Wicked Witch had British accents definitely made it worthwhile!






























The 2 teams that played aren't even the top London teams, and look at how many fans there are! It was so crowded that afterwards we were prevented from leaving when some guards basically formed a barricade right in front of us for "crowd control purposes"









Sunday, 6 of us toured Buckingham Palace (the queen is currently on her yearly trip to Scotland, so they open it up for visitors). This is a view from the back. Too bad we couldn't take pictures inside...









The gardens of Buckingham.


















Look at the little crown on top of the light post! I thought that was a nice touch.



















So after Wicked we waited around near the stage door for the cast to come out, and ended up taking a few pictures with some of them. This one is with Elpheba (eventually the wicked witch). She's in the back middle with blonde hair!






Here are some more pictures of Stonehenge...
































Okay, so Bath is Bath because this is where some Roman baths used to be. This is a hot springs, so I guess that intrigued a lot of people to the town.
Since we all know how appealing this green water looks, the gift shop was nice enough to let people get a free taste of it (yea... I passed on that one).
















This town is called Lacock, AND this is the location of the Potter's house (used in the Harry Potter movies). Also, the abbey here was used to film some scenes for the movie.






So, as you can see, it's been a very eventful weekend! On top of that, I've had a few papers to write for classes. Class is going well for the most part. Humanities is interesting, along with english literature. My communication research class is really boring, but I know that it's something that I need to understand how to do so I'm okay with that. Science is by far my least favorite class. However, I would still much rather be taking this class here in London than back in California. So, I really can't complain too much!

I really appreciate yall writing me e-mails! It's nice to have things to read other than class notes.

6 of us are going to Amsterdam this weekend, so be looking for pictures from there next week!