Playin' Catchup!

Sorry for the wait everyone! School is definitely in full swing and that means a lot of time devoted to the work.

I think I left off in London? Yeah!

Cool, well, the next weekend Michelle, who goes to Eau Claire, and her roommate Melissa and I

hopped a couple of trains to Nottingham!! We got sack luches and headed out early in the morning. We rode the Robin Hood Line from Grantham to Nottingham, and caught another train North to a place called Kirkby in Ashfield. Here, we had a cab wating for us to take us into the small villiage of Blidworth. Here, we found St. Mary's Cathedral and, tucked into the woods behind the church, the cemetary and gravestone of Will Scarlet!! It's so old that the wasn't any name or anything on it, but they say that it's supposed to be his final resting place! I was extatic! The cemetary itself was

beautiful and I took a lot of photos.

That didn't take too long, so we ended up walking into town and looking at some of the shops and stopping to eat lunch outside a pub. It was rainy so we ducked into a tent that kept us nice and dry until our cab showed up to bring us back to the train.



Outside Nottingham Castle!!



Where Edward II was
dragged after the
deed.



There, we ho

pped onto the train and went back to Nottingham to see the castle!! The original castle actually burnt down, so what is standing is an 18th century palace of sorts to Edward II. Even that doesn't really look like what it's supposed to because IT was ransacked by rioters and was torched. :( So, the building holds a art gallery, museum, and cafe. However, the tour wasn't a complete disaster becasue we opted to go on the tour of the caves that are within the cliff that the castle rests on. These caves were AWESOME! They were used by the servants of the castle, as well as many other poor peo ple as homes, and by the royalty as Dungeons and places to bring your King after he got a red hot poker up his butt. Yeah....poor Eddy II. He wasn't very loved by his peers. Anyways! They were the highlight of the trip for all of us!!

And so ends last weekend!



Then, on Wednesday of this week, the 15th, we had a field trip to Lincoln! That was REALLY fun! It was crazy windy and a bit cold, but definitely worth it! There we got to see the castle, which holds a prison(which holds one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta!) and the courthouse(which is still used today for trials. There was one going on while we were on our tour.) and Lucy's keep.



Lucy's Tower



Tree in cemetary of
Lucy's Tower



Lucy's keep was my favorite part of the tour because it's just

the ruins of what is left. It's a hallowed out skeleton of the two story circular building, in which the floor is a cemetary whith a giant tree growing in the middle. The second stroy isn't there anymore. 



We also got to go up to Cobb's Tower, which was tower in the corner of the wall surrounding the keep, where all the public hangings used to take place. Creepy! :) We also got to walk on top of the walls for a bit, which was an awesome view point to look over the city.

We then had the chance to go into the Cathedral, which is only about two hundred feet away from the castle. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!  Words can't describe it.



Lincoln Cathedral



Oh! we also got to see the only remaining Roman archway that is still in use today! Pretty awesome!!

Lincoln had some great tea places, and shopping so I hope to get back there soon to do some of it!! It's a wonderful place!

That's right!

So, there ya go! That is the update! I'm doing well, studying a lot  and making friends, stuff like that. I did wake up with a sore throat today...and I just sneezed a couple of times a few minutes ago, so I really hope I'm not getting sick!! :( That would suck!!

Anyways, my journey to Ireland is in a couple of weeks, so I'm excited for that and I will definitely update you all on that! I hope this finds you safe, happy, and warm!!



Cheers!