look at it! deoesn't it look like a postcard?! I very well think that this could have been the inspiration to any of those perfect little cottage paintings that Thomas Kinkade does. It was really beautiful there! I LOVED the gardens- wow! There were some cool things including statues, a mini hedge maze...that wasn't really a maze it was more of a walk around til you reach the center and then reverse the process to get out again. but there was this really cool...um...statue can we call it? look! I am in the UK!! hehehe
Oh- Anne Hathaway was Shakespeare’s wife – by the way. They were married when she was 26 and he was only 18- and she was pregnant at the time. After our time at the Mottage (hehe) we went over to the Mary Arden Farm, this is Shakespeare’s mom. This was a really big farm- and it is actually maintained and running- by actors. There are people who dress up like they live in the time and they cook and clean and garden and etc as if there were really living there. I got to see a woman prepare some of her food over one of those old time fire places, and a guy was out back gardening etc- it was cool.
There was another birds of prey show here too. They didn’t have a bald eagle but they had this um…hawk- I don’t remember what kind- sorry. But it was cool cause this show was a lot smaller and some of us got to participate!
We then went to Oxford on our way back to London- I learned that Oxford University is made up of a lot of different colleges in Oxford- the colleges all have all different kinds of majors – which is different from BYU – at BYU we have a lot of different colleges but they each just have specific kinds of majors that they house but oxford university has all of the different colleges that have all kinds of majors in each and some are more elite than others and harder to get into etc. but when you graduate from one of the colleges you get a general Oxford University degree. Anyway so we visited one of the colleges – probably the most popular of them all called - ‘Christ’s Church’ this is where some of the Harry Potter scenes were filmed! Yep! Cool huh!? I think so –
The inspiration for the staircase used in the movie is from this staircase [pic]
And the inspiration for the great hall
[pic of great hall]
And the flying lesson the Harry gets – was filmed in this field-
Cool eh?! It was really beautiful! And we went to their cathedral and etc too. I love the architecture and the beautiful buildings!
We got back home – to London and didn’t espically feel like going out but still wanted to do something- so a group of us walked down the street and got some gelatto. I got amaretto – it was my first ‘real’ gelatto experience. It was good! I think that a trick for really enjoying and liking geleatto (ha I make it sound like its hard…its not!) anyway- don’t expect icecream! Its different! Still very good- just different. at least this kind that I has was =) we then went on a little walk in the park, and danced around and took some pictures and had fun.
[picture in the park]
(FYI- I have a lot more pictures to post but for whatever reason they are taking FOREVER to upload- so this will have to do for now)
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