I know it's been practically a century since I last posted, but I couldn't let these pictures go unposted! So here they are: some last pictures from my last couple days of my most wonderful study abroad.
First is our big group picture of all of us spilling out of the BYU London Centre   |
| The Royal Crescent in Bath. Well, half of it. But, trust me, the other half looks exactly the same as this half. |
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| Olive and I walking the Royal Crescent and wearing snazzy sunglasses |
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| Eating a famously large Sally Lunn Bun while sitting on a curb with some other girls in Bath. People stared. They were clearly jealous. |
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| The sun setting in Bath |
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| Taken during the 6-mile-long windiest hike of my life (even windier than the Arthur's Seat hike. Maybe) along the English coast between Boscastle and Tintagel |
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| After our super-long hike we had to venture some more in search of our hostel. We honestly had no idea if we were going to right way, but after more miles trekking (with our luggage) down muddy paths and through mysterious shrubs we found this lovely sign leading us in the right direction! I have never been more relieved to see a hostel in my whole entire life. |
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| The Irish Sea. And my shoes. |
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| The beautiful Stonehenge! Our group had the lucky opportunity of arriving early to the site and walking amongst that magnificent hedge of stone that no one really knows anything about. It was awesome. We were strictly told not to touch any of the stones. The Pagan Spirits would have stuck us down! BIG SECRET: we all touched at least one stone. Even our directors broke the rules! Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty; however, nothing happened. |
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| Feeling the spirits of Stonehenge |
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| At Stourhead Gardens, my new favorite place in the whole world. Besides Disneyland. Have you seen the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice? The proposal scene in the rain took place HERE. I was reading the book and had it with me so we had a nice time reading that part out loud at this beautiful location and squealing and giggling and all that good stuff. |
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| Another gorgeous picture of Stourhead Gardens. I loved the random tree island thing in the middle of the pond. |
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| Osbourne House. Victoria and Albert's summer home. |
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| Drinking tea at the Orangery at Kensington Palace after our finals. And by "tea" I mean herbal tea with 12 sugar cubes in it. |
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| Our whole group at the Orangery. It was such a marvelous moment, that tea party. It was like living in a fairytale. |
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| The tunnel of secrets by Kensington Palace. Someone collected secrets from hundreds of people and those secrets were put in those red bubbles and hung down this tunnel of vines. |
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| Riding bikes through Hyde Park on our second-to-last day. Or penultimate day. Penultimate means second to last right? |
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| The trees and bike path and sunshine and people and wonderfulness of Hyde Park. |
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| The majestic Big Ben on our last night in London. We were actually pretty lucky to be able to leave the London Centre on our last night because of silly rioters causing havoc in the streets and burning buildings and such a couple nights before. Silly angry British people! But a group of us had a very pleasant time riding the tube and walking along the Thames and seeing everything for one last time. |
Oh, London. I love you so much. I'm seriously so thankful I was able to visit you and fall in love with you. You have provided me with so many memories and stories that I will be sharing for the rest of my existence. I cannot wait to visit again! CANNOT WAIT!
does anyone else think "cannot" is kind of a weird word?
