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Come on, mom, elke, madi... someone's gotta know that quote! anyways, I've got a moment here before we will need to rescue my wandering friend from a trainstation nearby. Here flight to London on time, and she got to Montreal early... so I'm hoping she can now navigate her way here. Can't wait. Yesterday afternoon I had a little snack [with tea, but it was not at an appropriate "tea" time] with Sara, David, and Joanna once she got home. It was great to see them all, and they definately had a warm welcome. There house is beautiful, and situated in a pocket of green not too far from central London. Apparently its 6 miles away. We left around 18.00, saw some AMAZING buildings/sights (which was even more incredible with the top down, although a bit chilly), stopped for a drink at The Angel for a beautiful view of the sunset behind tower bridge, began to see all the lights of London become visible in the midst of the fading sun, and then continued our tour of the very unique buildings and city life among that unexplainably wonderful lighting.
To jump back a moment, I think I have time to write about Friday. Once I woke up, mosied about for a bit and chatted with the now basically couch-ridden Helen, I decided I was going to walk to the town centre and see another museum and the two cathedrals. Grandma remembered how the Catholic one was architecturally ahead of its time (with an alter in the centre and ppl around it, for example), and was curious as to who designed it. I do not know off the top of my head, but I do have the info. Anyways, Amanda was going to go into town to meet her boyfriend anyways, so she offered to drop me off. That sounded great, because I had no clue how long my walk would be. Her plans changed and she didn't need to go, but she insisted that she would still drive me to get me oriented to the city because I had been looking up maps on google to figure it out. It really did help, because I didn't really see much when I had previously come in on the bus. So I enjoyed the great buildings in the seemingly "important building" area, which I would guess were Roman-style because many had huge columns. The park infront of one of the buildings was really pretty, had flowers and statues all around, and was full of people. Lianna, you and I would have joined a circle of guys playing keep up :) Then I meandered past the train station- which I previously did not know was right in town- and then headed towards the cathedrals going by the map I had gotten at the museum. Oh yes, that was one of the cool buildings... which all seemed more spectacular before I had my tour of London last night. Now that kinda spoils my memory of Liverpool. darn. Anyways, my favourite thing at the museum was the aquarium, and in the aquarium was a fish called plaice, I beleive. They weren't typically beautiful, but were so diffferent I was mesmorized. The way the moved: kinda crawling like a centipede but they had a round, flat body. The way they mysteriously had sand actually on top of them occasionally and they were actually almost invisible, even though they were about the size of my hand. The asymmety about them: their mouths were all to the same side, the one fin on their backs were off to one side.... truly not like any other animal I have ever seen. Aren't you glad you've now heard of those mystical little fishies? The rest of the museum was okay... I kinda just walked through and looked. I read about a few of the Roman statues. Like the cupid as a symbol of death when (1) its eyes are closed, (2) it has a lizard by its feet.. because they belived in the underworld after life, and (3) it has an upside-down torch by its side.
My walk to the first cathedral was quite nice. And it looked very interesting: a white future-istic rocketship or something. I spent some time inside and this was definately the one Grandma was talking about----AYNSLEY JUST CALLED.. Shell probably make the 10:22 train and be at the station in about 25mins!!!
Anyways, the Cathdral was gorgeous. No words to explain it, I hope the feeling it gave me will last a long time. And then I found the next Cathdral, which the map said closed almost 2 hours before. This one looked completely different in red brick and a huge gully with gravesites and huge trees around it. I thought I'd try to get in just incase, and it didn't seem closed at all. Several people were also looking around, and sitting to enjoy the choir practicing in the distance. I can't imagine how long it was... more than our block at home forsure. The choir sounded crazy. I could have listened for hours. WOW. I honestly want to go to another one somewhere when the choir is practising. Anyways, I loved my little tour and would have explored the gully, but i was alone and it looked secluded and empty. Could have been nice, but could have been sketchy. So I started my trek home. Only took 40mins from there. And they laughed when I said I was walking!! It was hard to see where I was going because they don't have street signs like at home: it randomly says sometimes on buildings.
helen and I watched cyote ugly that night.... and I left in the morning. g2g. have a friend to see :)
To jump back a moment, I think I have time to write about Friday. Once I woke up, mosied about for a bit and chatted with the now basically couch-ridden Helen, I decided I was going to walk to the town centre and see another museum and the two cathedrals. Grandma remembered how the Catholic one was architecturally ahead of its time (with an alter in the centre and ppl around it, for example), and was curious as to who designed it. I do not know off the top of my head, but I do have the info. Anyways, Amanda was going to go into town to meet her boyfriend anyways, so she offered to drop me off. That sounded great, because I had no clue how long my walk would be. Her plans changed and she didn't need to go, but she insisted that she would still drive me to get me oriented to the city because I had been looking up maps on google to figure it out. It really did help, because I didn't really see much when I had previously come in on the bus. So I enjoyed the great buildings in the seemingly "important building" area, which I would guess were Roman-style because many had huge columns. The park infront of one of the buildings was really pretty, had flowers and statues all around, and was full of people. Lianna, you and I would have joined a circle of guys playing keep up :) Then I meandered past the train station- which I previously did not know was right in town- and then headed towards the cathedrals going by the map I had gotten at the museum. Oh yes, that was one of the cool buildings... which all seemed more spectacular before I had my tour of London last night. Now that kinda spoils my memory of Liverpool. darn. Anyways, my favourite thing at the museum was the aquarium, and in the aquarium was a fish called plaice, I beleive. They weren't typically beautiful, but were so diffferent I was mesmorized. The way the moved: kinda crawling like a centipede but they had a round, flat body. The way they mysteriously had sand actually on top of them occasionally and they were actually almost invisible, even though they were about the size of my hand. The asymmety about them: their mouths were all to the same side, the one fin on their backs were off to one side.... truly not like any other animal I have ever seen. Aren't you glad you've now heard of those mystical little fishies? The rest of the museum was okay... I kinda just walked through and looked. I read about a few of the Roman statues. Like the cupid as a symbol of death when (1) its eyes are closed, (2) it has a lizard by its feet.. because they belived in the underworld after life, and (3) it has an upside-down torch by its side.
My walk to the first cathedral was quite nice. And it looked very interesting: a white future-istic rocketship or something. I spent some time inside and this was definately the one Grandma was talking about----AYNSLEY JUST CALLED.. Shell probably make the 10:22 train and be at the station in about 25mins!!!
Anyways, the Cathdral was gorgeous. No words to explain it, I hope the feeling it gave me will last a long time. And then I found the next Cathdral, which the map said closed almost 2 hours before. This one looked completely different in red brick and a huge gully with gravesites and huge trees around it. I thought I'd try to get in just incase, and it didn't seem closed at all. Several people were also looking around, and sitting to enjoy the choir practicing in the distance. I can't imagine how long it was... more than our block at home forsure. The choir sounded crazy. I could have listened for hours. WOW. I honestly want to go to another one somewhere when the choir is practising. Anyways, I loved my little tour and would have explored the gully, but i was alone and it looked secluded and empty. Could have been nice, but could have been sketchy. So I started my trek home. Only took 40mins from there. And they laughed when I said I was walking!! It was hard to see where I was going because they don't have street signs like at home: it randomly says sometimes on buildings.
helen and I watched cyote ugly that night.... and I left in the morning. g2g. have a friend to see :)