July 27, 2007
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An Update
I thought this week would be so relaxing and that I’d be able to get so much done and have free time. Ha ha ha. Here it is Friday, and I haven’t even made a Xanga entry yet! Why, do you ask? I ask myself, so I shall review.
Monday–Exhausted family returns home around noon. I nap. I go to bed by 7:30.
Tuesday–Laundry, unpacking, opening two weeks of mail, returning phone calls, go to bed by 8:30
Wednesday–Out of town all day and evening for my step-grandmother’s funeral. (She died Sunday evening before we got back. She was 96, I believe.)
Thursday–More cleaning in the morning. All afternoon gone for a meeting for church and a bit of necessary shopping. All evening gone to a State College Spikes game. (Sorry, KID! I would have loved to have been at the shower, too, but the family took priority.)
Friday–Physicals for the girls, a bit more shopping since we all leave SUNDAY for a week of camp where I will be a counselor and will teach five 45 minute creative writing sessions (found that bit out Thursday).
Phew.
But, you didn’t come here to hear me whine about life in PA. You want to see pictures of England, right? They are much more interesting anyhow. I will be terse. Perhaps I shall share more later once the pictures are all up.
Cambridge
King’s College (I’m pretty sure!)
TGD and yanniesue
This river, the Cam, runs behind several of the colleges in Cambridge.
Isaac Newton’s feet!
This was a chapel. If you replace the pews with tables, it would also look like the dining hall.
Bath
James touching the waters of the Great Bath. They are green from all the helpful and healing chemicals which bubble from the center of the earth.
One of the many Roman thingies found when the excavated the baths. The other is the entrance to the Pump Room which is where people used to go drink the waters. Mmmmm.
English Daisies–they are about the size of your thumbnail and grow like our dandelions.
Pultney Bridge, one of the few bridges in the world with stores on each side of the bridge.
Me having a scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam in the rectangular card room of the Assembly Rooms. The other is the famed fish fountain (which probably has a real name) which they would use to fill their glasses with pump water. It’s the same fountain that Jane Austen and company would have used.
An English Plain Tree which we’d call a Sycamore. James in a pub with “Jameson” painted on the wall behind him (a kind of ale). I couldn’t resist.
Jane Austen’s dad’s grave at St. Swithun’s Church.
Sally Lunn’s house, the oldest in Bath, 1482. The famous buns look like a large hamburger bun and taste just like one, too. The other picture shows a typical “front yard” in Bath.
Me in front of Elizabeth Linley’s house from which she eloped with Richard Sheridan.
The Royal Crescent (where E. Linley’s #11 is)
Part of the Circus, a circular road with curved house/apartments around them.
Across from St. Swithun’s and me in front of #4 Sydney Place, Jane Austen’s Bath address.
Bath Abbey and part of a nifty, old cemetery we found.
More pictures from that cemetery. It was just so English-storybook.
TGD at the Beazer Maze.
I think I’ve pictured you enough for now. I’ll do London in a different entry. I also need to start reading your entries again. I’ve missed hearing about your lives!
Comments (17)
If I hurry, I can be the first person to comment on this entry…. hurrying, hurrying,…. First, what a handsome guy in those photos?! Secondly, for the other readers, the “black and white” photo with the window in the background and the apple tree in the foreground is a picture of the window to Isaac Newton’s study when he was at Cambridge. That tree is an apple tree from Newton’s family estate. (Get it, apples, gravity, haha…)
The other pictures are gorgeous. You really have an eye for this stuff! I especially like the one of the huge window with the pretty shadow on the ground (near the top of your entry).
I am absolutely green! Great pictures!
Have fun at camp. When you get back, maybe you could tell me how to load pictures from camera to computer without a whole lot of trouble.
Lovey pictures!! I’m curious–what kind of camera do you have? My camera can take some pretty decent pictures, but I could never take a picture as beautiful as the first–it looks professional.
I bet people would pay big bucks to have poster-sized prints of some of these photos.
Oh my goodness. Such amazing pictures… =) Looks like a wonderful time, and even though I only know you from afar, I am glad that you are back. I’ve missed reading your regular posts.
Ooooo!!! So lovely!! I especially like the one of the green “carpet”!!!
So, the “world traveller” is home! You look truly “in your element” with the clotted cream & strawbery jam scone…. I’ve had that clotted cream stuff…. HELLO!! YU-MMMM!!! Just slather it on, please!!!!! (& order me a size larger skirt at the same time!!!) Oh, the Poppies look so beautiful, too! Yes, envy would be quite easy, but, it’s so much more fun to “rejoice with those who rejoice”! I’m so happy that you were able to go!! I’m sure this trip will be one you’ll look back on fondly for years and years to come….. not to mention supply many ideas and insite to your writing talents! 
Have a great week and relax while you can…. sounds like you’ve got a busy week coming up!! AJ
The pictures are lovely.
I’m glad you got some time with the family on Thursday. Please do not apolologize.
It was so great to have you here!! Glad to hear you’re back and getting over jet lag, even though it sounds like you hit the ground running! Have fun at camp!
awesome times in England. wow.
Utterly cool! And to think you get to back there before too long, righto? Nice. Enjoy teaching at camp! (What kind of camp is it?)
those are GREAT pictures!
Your pictures bring back the wonderful memories I have of England five years ago. We listened to an organ concert in the Bath abbey. Looking forward to reading about your travels in London!
Beautiful pictures! Can’t wait to see more!
YAY! Your back! I’m glad you had fun and made it back safely!
These are FABULOUS pictures. Thanks for sharing.
I am so glad you posted! Sorry you have been so busy, but I enjoyed the pictures. Clotted cream and scones – a cream tea? I would go into the waters at Bath if they let me. Loved the red poppies and the flowers at King’s College, (Or was it Cambridge?)
I’m trying very hard to be patient as your pictures load. Maybe by the time I finish commenting I’ll be able to scroll back up to see them. Dial-up in the UP is the slowest dial-up on the planet. Just checked…not even close. I should go cook dinner and then come back! Thankfully two girls are sleeping and the other is out with my aunt and uncle so I have the time to wait. I just checked on Kendall a few minutes ago and found her asleep on my parent’s bedroom floor with this green cutting mat over her head. I don’t know what she was thinking. They’re done loading now…hooray! I really liked the pic of the sun coming through the window onto the grass.
Love the pictures…check my site for a correction (Rob isn’t going to seminary).