Pictures!

The hardest things about not having internet is that it makes it so much harder to remember all of the fun things we do that I want to tell you all about. We have done so much the past couple of weeks, so I'm going to use this post mostly to give you some pictures and a brief synopsis of what we're doing with our time.

Bath:

Such a charming town. I've only included a couple of pictures just of the actual baths, but the town offers a lot more. The baths are the highlight though, and I have limited space for pictures.

London:

Comedy show at a pub. Didn't understand a lot of the local political and entertainment jokes, but still a good time.

Oxfod/Cambridge boat race: Very fun! Basically college students use the excuse of seeing two boats row past them for 30 seconds as their excuse to party all day. So good people watching and lots of live music. Oxford won.

Ice cream sundaes at Harrod's ice cream parlor. Yum. Also was finally able to explore Harrod's. A different kind of yum.

Twilight DVD night with the girls. A very different kind of yum...

National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery with new friends. Love the Portrait Gallery, will go back many times.

Cabinet War Rooms/Churchill Museum: A must-see. Adam's favorite so far. I will probably have to drag my dad out of here if my parents visit us.

Protests/G20/Political leaders: A really fun time to be in the city! I assume they're talking about this on the news at home. Saturday we saw the giant protest parade -- basically, anyone who wanted to complain about something joined to make one huge group (like 30,000 I think... don't quote me on that) and paraded by the parliament buildings. We've seen a couple of very top secret looking caravans drive past us at various times, and....... I saw the queen!!!! Yesterday I met up with a couple of people to play around London, and the parade for the Mexican president was in progress. We decided to watch, and we saw the queen in her big pink hat drive by! So exciting!! We left before we saw the Mexican president.

So that's a very brief summary of the many things we're seeing and doing. Now for the fun part:

IRELAND

This was our wonderful B&B. (The little car on the far left was our set of wheels. Before we lost the hubcap.)

The Cliffs Moher aka "The Cliffs of Insanity"

It was really cold and windy

Funny cows are always a hit with us. This one loved Adam. Also notice all the stone walls, green pastures, and the edge of the Atlantic.

Crosses at Clonmacnoise

Old building barely hanging on at Clonmacnoise

At the Guiness Factory in Dublin

Very talented bartenders

St. Paterick's Cathdedral and park

Probably the most disturbing mural in Belfast. I could do a whole post of pictures/stories on these murals alone.

Giant wall separating opposing neighborhoods

We signed the wall. I'll take it as a good thing that Adam looks extremely unnatural holding that gun. Oh and our cab driver made us do this pose.

BATH

LONDON Tower of London. See what I mean by more of a community, not so much a giant tower?

Tower Bridge

Yeoman Warder. These are the guys that live at the tower with their wives. They're also the tour guides.

Oxford/Cambridge boat race. So much ado for those two little row boats. Notice the fleet following them? I mean SO much ado.

One picture of the protests. I wish I could have captured better just how many people there were and how many issues they were representing.

I hope this helped to fill you in on everything here. I planned on taking pictures of our flat, but I didn't feel like picking it up for the pictures, so maybe next time I'll have that for you!