Well! Laura and I just spent a couple of hours in the York train station waiting for our train to arrive (it was more than slightly delayed) BUT! it has finally arrived and is now carrying us towards our next destination which is the incredible city of Edinburgh. We plan on having a pretty intense day considering that we’re only staying in Edinburgh for one night and thus, have to see all that we want to see today before it gets too dark (good thing the sun doesn’t peace out until like 9:30). So that should be fun. Then tomorrow we head back to London where I spend two nights more with Laura before heading off to Wales for the last bit of my trip!
So it’s been a couple of days since I’ve posted anything so I guess I should play catch up for just a minute. Laura’s and my time spent in Bath was great. I absolutely loved that city and we spent our days just walking around the city, hanging out in parks, taking pictures, reading, etc. It was cool and I feel like we got a good feel for the city before we left. It was really awesome and I’d totally go back there. Then for the past two days, we have been in York! Our time in York has been interesting definitely. We were pretty lazy while we were there and I think that this is partly due to the fact that we stayed in a B&B here instead of a hostel meaning that we had our own room with a TV and privacy to hang out in. I Tend to be down to relax almost all the time so we ended up doing a lot of that. It was kind of nice to have a break from the intensity though for me cause I feel like I’ve just been going and going and going for a long time now. I still feel that way actually…I just didn’t feel that way while we were in York and that was nice.
So one of the major negative things about where we were staying in York was that our hotel was about a 20 minute walk from the train station. Now this wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it was just a walk…but we’re carrying WAY too much stuff to be taking it long distances. And the weather is perfect outside if you’re just walking around packless, but when you’re carrying as much as we are, it’s a completely different story. You know those hoses that people run around through their flower beds and then when they turn them on, the water just kinda soaks out of them and waters the flowerbed? Well it felt like the sun was trying to turn us into human soak hoses and use us to water the pavement we were walking on. Basically we were sweating like crazy by the time we got both to our B&B and when we got to the train station this morning. We’ve decided it’s completely worthless to take a shower in the morning before we head to another destination for the day no matter how gross we feel. It’s always a better choice to just wait and take one whenever we get where we’re going.
One big problem for Laura that is growing steadily bigger by the day is that she keeps buying books. Like she now has a decently-sized suitcase that is completely devoted to books. I carried it for her for most of the way to the train station today and I can tell you, it’s not light. But she doesn’t seem to have the physical ability to throw a book away or leave it behind. She must carry them all with her. And she reads a lot. Thus, I don’t foresee this problem getting any smaller as we go on. I’ll keep you posted though.
So in York, there was this HUGE gothic cathedral that looked actually a lot like Notre Dame from the front. It was really beautiful though. Laura and I passed it on our way into town when we were walking to our B&B so once we had showered and gotten settled into our room, we decided to walk back and check it out. We had looked in a guidebook and found out that it cost like 10 dollars to get into it so we were happy to find out that enty was actually free when we got there. We were quickly forced to realize that we would probably rather have paid 10 dollars to get in than to have gotten in free for the reason we did. The reason it was free was because it was Sunday night and there was a big “Prayer Service” going on. It was wild in there. The wing of it where the prayer rally was going on was completely packed and the crowd was getting really into the song that was playing. There were a lot of flags being waved and hands going crazy in the air. All of the hands were doing the same thing though. There was this guy on stage showing everyone what to do with their hands (wave them this way, wave them that way, clap!, put them down, put them back up!) and so the whole crowd was following his lead. Then, after the song was over, everyone sat down and a guy came up on stage and I thought he was about to preach or something but then, all of a sudden, a furry-headed, sesame street-esque character popped up from behind a screen next to him. The man on stage then proceeded to have an extremely cheesy dialogue with this puppet about prayer and other things. Then, to skip ahead a bit, when Laura and I walked back by the Cathedral an hour later or so, all these people were outside yelling something and waving their flags around and stuff. Also, at this point they had decided to add the element of fire to their group so there were about 50 people carrying large torches! They were all really into it right up until it ended and then the people dispersed and it was over. Honestly, if I wasn’t a Christian and I saw that, I would totally be talking about how Christianity was some kind of weird cult. It’s kinda sad. But I did get quite a laugh out of seeing this whole thing go down.
Anyways though, going back a bit, Laura and I got away from the prayer rally and explored some of the other parts of the Cathedral. It really was beautiful in there and we were enjoying ourselves. Some guy who worked there and was wearing a yellow vest saw Laura taking a picture and came over to ask us if we were praying or just looking around. We told him we were just checking out the church and he seemed to be ok with that and was very nice and walked off. However, about a minute later, he came back with a Security guy who said very harshly, “If you’re not praying and you’re strictly here for tourism, you need to leave. Follow me.” So we were like “ok…” and we followed him to the door. As he was opening the door for us, I just said something like “hey I’m really sorry, we didn’t know we weren’t supposed to be in here and if we had known, we wouldn’t have been.” He then said “Well, there was a sign on the door. Please leave.” And he pretty much pushed us out…I immediately turned to Laura and was like, “did you see a sign on the door?” Nope, she hadn’t either. Oh well, we left the church, both kinda upset about how mean the guy had been to us when we honestly didn’t know we were doing anything wrong. And also not really understanding why it was a big deal if we were walking around …oh well though. We laughed about it.
Other than that though, York was fairly uneventful. There were some really pretty parks and ruins in York and it was cool to walk around the city wall for a bit. But honestly we spent most of our time just being lazy, reading, watching the office. It was great though.
I think Laura and I are pretty good at traveling together. No problems at all so far except for that I have begun a new game that Laura doesn’t particularly like. Basically, my game consists of just disagreeing with Laura when she’s obviously right. She hates it. Like we’ll have a discussion and she’ll make a statement that is obviously correct and I’ll just say “no…nope that’s wrong.” And for some reason, it really bugs her. Now if you know me, you would know that I can’t resist bugging people. Especially Jeff should know that. I don’t like to make people mad though…I just like to mildly annoy them but in a way that, in the end, I can get them to laugh it off. It’s like a drug for me. So we’ll see if that continues to get on her nerves.
It’s kinda weird to write on this blog because I would feel really weird writing very much about Laura. It’s completely different than if I was writing an email to my mom or something where I knew that Laura would never read it. But there’s just something about writing about someone who you know is going to go back and read what you wrote that bugs me. I can’t do it. Even though I would probably only have good things to say anyways, I can’t do it.
K well holding my computer this close to me and typing on this train is going to give me carpel tunnel if I don’t stop soon so I’m just going to cut this off here. I’ll probably write again tomorrow though cause we have like a 4 hour train ride back from Edinburgh to London. SO I’ll let you know how Edinburgh is the second time around!!
Ok love you all and thanks so much mom for saving all my stuff from my car! I was really going to miss my longboard and my glasses particularly if they had gotten totaled with my car. So thanks. And congrats fluff on getting your first Job! Fluff’s a painter! Woot to the woot.
Rah rah sis boom ROD!
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