Monday, May 21
- The picture is of Dove Cottage, William Wordsworth's home for about a decade. Such a cool experience to eat dinner there!
- The day started out with a coach ride to Preston, where the first Saints were baptized in England.
- We got a guided tour of the MTC in Preston, then went to see the temple there. It's so pretty!
- We drove into Ambleside, which is in the Lake District, the most beautiful place I've ever seen! It was amazing!
- That night half of us had dinner in Dove Cottage. We were the second group ever to eat dinner in there, it's not something they normally do. It was so cool! The food was pretty good too. We had this stew called Coleridge stew, mashed carrots, and potatoes.
- That night we had room assignments, and I roomed with Kayley and Emily in a cute little bed and breakfast.
Tuesday, May 22
- We went hiking pretty much all day this day. We went hiking to a lake called Loughrigg Tarn, (Tarn means lake here), which was beautiful! On the hike back we passed by two other lakes, which were also very beautiful.
- We got to explore Ambleside a little bit. It was such a cute little town!
- We hiked to a waterfall that nigh, called something Force (force means waterfall). I felt like I was hiking through the mountains in Utah a little bit actually :)
- Wednesday, we got to go to the Wordsworth museum to look at some old manuscripts. We got to see first and second editions of Lyrical Ballads, an early version of Frankenstein, Keats's poetry, Wordsworth's copy of Paradise Lost, and old letters between Wordsworth and his wife. This part was so cool! It was awesome to be able to handle such old manuscripts!
- This night, we drove about five hours to Edinburgh and checked into our hostels.
- We ate dinner at the Elephant House, which is where J.K. Rowling started writing Harry Potter! It was cool to eat there, although the food wasn't very good at all haha.
- We hiked to Arthur's seat, which I think is the highest peak in Scotland. This is where Orson Hyde came when he was a missionary to dedicate Scotland to the Lord for missionary work. It was a mostly uphill hike, but it was so worth it! The view up there was amazing!
- Staying in the hostel was not a great experience haha. It wasn't very clean, and there were 8 of us staying in one room in bunk beds. At least I got the experience though!
- We got most of this day to explore Edinburgh. We took a guided tour of Edinburgh castle, which was cool!
- We got a few hours of free time, which we spent shopping for souvenirs and stuff. There were guys in kilts on almost every street corner playing bagpipes, which I was so excited about! The city was cool, but I would have liked more time there, and especially more time hiking. We didn't get any time in the highlands, and I wish we could have gone up there. It was still fun though!
- We spent this day in York, an old medieval city in Northern England. There's still an old medieval wall surrounding the city, and we got to walk around on it. There's an old street called Shambles, which is where the phrase "going to shambles" is called, because the street is so old that the roofs are slanting over the street, making it seem dark. I bought a way cool Marvel bag there! I'm king of in love with it :)
- We drove back to London this night, then got all day Saturday to do whatever.
- We did quite a bit of shopping yesterday. We went to Lillywhite's (a sports store), Camden Market, the Disney store, Britannia, and saw Hailey and Brad of youtube fame on the street! It was a good day! :)
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