alright as i actually have stories from the past two days, i'll go ahead and update.

yesterday in its entirety was spent in london (well and on the bus there and back.) after the chaos of being dropped off in the massive complex of victoria stations, julie, darchelle, and I headed to Buckingham palace for the Fabrage exhibit. Quite an impressive display - from 'practical objects' to the famous eggs. People there were really quite nice as Julie and Darchelle hadn't been able to do the left luggage thing. The security people let them leave the bags in the cloakroom and the 'thorough search' was more like looking on top and then asking if the bag was going to explode. Then, we arranged to meet a friend of Darchelle's aunt at the Canada Waters tube station at 3. Being the cheapskates we are, we decided it would be no problem to just walk there and save a couple pounds...... With the help of our "map" - a free although NOT to scale representation of some of the main roads and cartoons of the attractions - we made it to the station a little over 2 hours after starting. Definitely got to see London! The girls dropped off their stuff at Emma's house and then we finally decided that traveling by bus would be alright... taking the bus to oxford street, it broke down. so got on another bus. ate at trafalger square. then as we promised to emma, we walked all the way down oxford street. Impressive place for the night life. around by hydepark, stopping near the Ritz for desert. And then walking very very quickly to the bus station for me to head back here to Bath and Julie and Darchelle to get back to Emma's. I dare say that good times were had by all, and I do hope to get back to London a few times this semester...

So my typical sunday, sleeping in, reading. When I finally got myself geared up to go grocery shopping, I stopped in the kitchen where Mandy and Claude were hanging out. All of us with nothing to do, so since Claude has his car here with him we decided to go to 'the coast.' Definitely an ambiguous destination when you are on an island. At any rate, Mandy, Claude, Jakub, and I drove a little over an hour and finally randomly stopped in the village of Watchet. An empty place this time of year... but on the coast just north of Exmoor National Park. So we get out to a very chilly wind, and walk along the pier and basically through the whole town. As we were first walking out on the pier in front of the ocean, these 3 kids jumped up from behind a bench and screamed 'hey. welcome to watchet' actually made me jump. but it was hilarious, they did this whole exhibition type thing - 'you want to go to the lighthouse? that way, you want to go to the beach? this way' sounded all planned, rehearsed. obviously watchet is not the most exciting place to live. It simply can not be transcribed as hilariously as it occured - it does help if you add a british street urchin type accent to the whole thing. So we wandered the beach until the wind had our hands and ears go numb. Then drove back. So thats basically the most exciting weekend so far in terms of traveling. Tomorrow its back to 'class' - all 3 of them.