Hey England!

Hi everyone! As promised, this post is coming to you from England…I arrived in Bristol this morning after flying all night (or day, depending on which time zone you care to think of it). The first leg of the trip was over 9 hours from Seattle to Amsterdam and basically, that is waay too long a flight! I am still sore from sitting there (for which I partly blame the dumb snowboarder who ran me over 1 ½ years ago). I also wasn’t able to sleep much…but on the upside, they gave us dinner and didn’t charge us for the movies—I’m not used to that kind of service anymore!

Anyway, from Amsterdam I flew to Bristol—a wonderfully short 1 hour flight. It was also fun because the couple sitting next to me on the Seattle leg was going to Bristol so we chatted and relaxed together between flights. So from Bristol, I took the coach (see I’m already learning how to speak English) to the Bristol Temple Meads Train Station, bought a railcard and actually managed to get on the correct train to Bath Spa! I took a taxi to the hotel, had lunch, emailed my parents to say that I’m alive, and promptly feel asleep (for way longer than I meant to).

When I finally woke up, I took a quick shower (for some reason, just sitting on a plane makes one feel remarkably disgusting) and started wandering around Bath! I was a bit too nervous to wander too far from my hotel (yeah, I’m a wimp, I know), but I wandered a couple of blocks I guess and found a little pizzeria for dinner. Then I wandered some more! Fun fact: the Jane Austen Center is just up the street from my hotel. I don’t know whether I will go there tomorrow before meeting the ASE group, but I will certainly visit at some point and through the window, located a fun looking souvenir or two…

Anyway, I’m fairly tired and just hanging out for the night. Love you all!