Stonehenge Rocks!

This is a blog post from Saturday: May 19, 2012

                                           

             We started the day off with breakfast then we rode the tube to the Science Museum. The Science Museum had four floors of artifacts and interactive areas. My favorite part of the entire museum was the room that had a bubble interactive area! I loved .m,it! I was pretty tired and wiped so I think if I would have been more well rested I would have appreciated the museum more! I ended up sitting down in the textiles and fashion area and read my Rick Steves book on Ireland. It was rather enjoyable to just sit and read in a semi quiet area. We then met at 12:30 to leave the museum to head to the coach station and grab lunch before we left for Stonehenge. I grabbed food at Pret a healthy grab and go shop. I was so excited to find fruit that looked good and was not extremely overpriced. So for the first time since being over here I enjoyed some pineapple, melons, and strawberries! After lunch we had about an hour to shop or do whatever so I went around and looked at the storefronts and in the shops. I did not buy anything just window-shopped.

             We then met up at the coach station to leave for Stonehenge. Kayla and I tried napping on the two-hour bus ride there…we were sort of successful! Dave made the comment on the coach that they really should build these historical sights closer to town…I just looked at him like he was an idiot and he laughed! In the distance from the coach we could see Stonehenge its so surreal seeing something like that when you have heard about it all your life! Once the coach parked our coach driver took us up to the area where we got our portable audio guides and tickets. The closer I got to Stonehenge I was just in pure disbelief that I was there I was at Stonehenge. That I was not seeing it in a class or hearing Ms. Herre talk about it but this was real. Stonehenge is massive and you just think about how hard people worked to make it….god definitely played a major roll in helping them to build it! As I walked around Stonehenge I found the audio guide to be very informative. I loved hearing all the theories for what Stonehenge’s purpose was ranging from a religious site to where people were executed! The real purpose for Stonehenge has been lost in history now there is only speculations! I took tons of pictures of Stonehenge.. Kayla and I even took somewhere it looks like we are pushing the stones over it was a lot of fun and very funny! We only got to spend  an hour at Stonehenge before we left on our two hour bus ride back.

Once we got back into London Kayla, Lois, Dave, and I went to a cute little authentic Italian restaurant where I had this amazing pizza! The pizza had pesto, mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella, chicken, and rocket (arugula). After enjoying our meal we headed back to the hostel for our last ride on the tube. When we were in the tube station a young man came up to Dave and said something…none of us are to sure of what he said but he…stole Dave’s hat he had bought in Scotland! After that incident the four of us where all slightly shaken up! We did safely arrive at the hostel but I think we were all a little on edge though! Once back I did the usual check the internet then I went back upstairs to pack to leave for Ireland tomorrow! It then hit me that we were leaving for Ireland tomorrow!!!! The place I have wanted to go for all my life and dreamed of going needless to say I got VERY EXCITED!