the rain foiled my photos

so upon arriving to windsor castle in a torrential downpour my faithful friend said "oh you wont need anything, can i put my ipod in your purse" so i let him and promptly left my purse on the bus... with my phone and camera in it. basically there is no evidence i went to windsor castle. im fine with that it wasn't that cool. the highlight was a doll house. someone with way too much money and time on their hands made a mini house. everything in it works. from the lawn mower to the plumbing, its a mini home. quite charming, if not slightly creepy. also due to rain and guests being sopping wet and damaging things, most parts closed. so we sat at a coffee shop for an hour. they had delish hot chocolate though. i stole that photo from facebook. nelly and i are just too cute right?

after windsor (which was monday afternoon the 18th) we came back to school. hey a day with shorter/less class is still a good day in my book.

cotswolds. a ruin. 

the same week we skipped out on thursday the 21st for cotswolds and kelmscott. again, we weren't lucky in the weather department... it was pouring again. our bus took us first to cotswolds. then we hiked up to the actual site of cotswolds... in the rain. really a lovely time for a stroll. not to mention 2/3 of our group has some form of pneumonia by now. im not sure how im remaining healthy but knock on wood i've yet to get sick! fun fact of cotswolds. some man fled there and had an old friend brick him into a wall to hide... the old friend died. no one ever found him until he was a skeleton in the closet.

are we at cotswolds or kelmscott or do you care?

cheers to losing taste buds for a drink that doesn't need them.

we got back on our buses (still in the rain) and headed down the way a little bit to kelmscott... once we got there we realized something was off. we were missing two members of our group. specifically two boys. once they were contacted they were told tough luck, catch a bus home. if this had happened to me i would have probably caught a flight all the way home. we were only 20 minutes away and they wouldn't consider going back for them! it was semi their fault because we were told to go back to the buses but i'd still have been relatively irate. but im sure its different for guys. kemlscott followed suit and refused indoor photos... the owner of this home is some designer and maybe i have bad taste but it looked like every pattern on earth threw up on a wall. not my favorite stuff. and the ceilings were for midgets. the stairs were alternating as in one foot went up at a time left right left. how did kids every run down the stairs? im sure he had paraplegic children within a month. so we sat in the garden in the rain for a while, enjoying scalding hot watered down hot chocolate.

just for you mom :)

one thing the kelm had in its favor was orchids. i've never seen one growing in the wild (or not in a pot) but they had some that were really pretty! now that im mostly up to date on the blog i've got to do some much needed laundry. next to come is my weekend in paris which was incredible, and my thrilling evening sitting at the high table for dinner. tomorrow we leave for london for a 3 day excursion so hopefully tonight i can squeeze in details from dinner & paris before im behind again. hope i'm still as entertaining as watching your grass grow :)