Monday, we took a long coach ride through the English countryside. The landscape was breathtaking and just as you think the English countryside should look. Our first stop was the Roman Baths and students were given audio sets to help them go through the Baths. After the tour of the Roman Baths, the students had several hours to shop. Bath is a good place to shop since all is pretty well contained around the Romans Baths with a safe walking street. Many of them headed to Pizza Hut.
As a fund raising project in bath, pigs were made and sold. Now that the pigs have all been sold, they have made lions. Matthew said there were only a few pigs left and told us to be on the lookout for one. I found one by the Abbey.
Stonehenge is always a huge favorite. The weather was perfect for walking around and taking pictures and listening to the audio sets.
Tuesday, July 20 was probably our most tiring day. We walked about 7 miles all over London. We met a tour guide at the London Eye and saw Lambeth Palace, walked across the Westminster Bridge to the House of Parliament. We heard Big Ben strike 11:00 AM, took a guided tour of Westminster Abbey, walked to St. James Park with a small view of Buckingham Palace, picniced in St. James Park, visited the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum. After that we took a very fast walk to Trafalgar Square and actually survived crossing the streets to Trafalgar Square
with about 100 students and faculty. We continued on to Piccadilly Circus. Some of our group shopped at the sale at the big sports shop, Lilly Whites. Parker bought a jacket. Jack and Jack and two boys from another group went with me down Regents Street to Hanleys toy store. What a tremendous store with floors of unique toys. The boys said their could spend a whole day there. We had only 20 minutes and were so astonished that we didn't know what to look at first.
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