3 Days and same clothes Later

Well! I'm finally here in England! It was a long 2 days, but went rather smoothly - almost.

The first plane ride from Wichita to Atlanta was short and sweet except I was definitely sitting next to a girl with a cat. The cat was in a little carrier, but she was obsessed with it and had it on her lap with her hand in the case, petting it. And it definitely meowed almost the entire time. But it really didn't bother me too much. My friend, Luke, is also studying in Prague this semester and is from Wichita - we actually went to high school together. So we flew together. We then met up with two other friends - Chris and Laura who are from St. Louis - in Atlanta. When we got to the Atlanta airport Luke and I had to make a huge trek from one terminal to the other one- seriously far away. We were given 45 minutes between flights, so by the time we arrived at the terminal they were boarding.

So two seconds later we were on the plane. It wasn't as long and awful as expected - although sleeping proved rather difficult. I got a little but not much.

Then we made it to London! They called Luke and I's last names and told us to talk to the person at the gate. So, of course, I knew that was bad news and assumed it was luggage issues. Sure enough - our luggage didn't make it. But it was very nice that they could tell us before we discovered it ourselves after waiting. The 'missing luggage people' were very nice. I told the guy our luggage didn't make it and he said "oh suga!" in a british accent. I couldn't really be mad about it because their accents make me laugh. Turns out it was a blessing because I then didn't have to drag that luggage around oxford, where we took a bus. So today they delivered our luggage, but not until late afternoon and we took off for the whole day this morning. So I'm still in the same clothes - hence the title - but we got to wash our clothes last night.. all good.

Luke has some friends here in England - they live about an hour outside London, close to Oxford. The husband is in the airforce. They have two small children (1 and 3) that we are enjoying very very much -adorable. And we are so blessed to be with this family. Some of the nicest people who are helping us save loads of money.

They have a friend in Oxford that goes to Oxford University. So we met him and took our luggage to his house -- well laura and chris took their luggage. Luke and I took our carryons.
Anyways, he showed us around Oxford that day. we were extremely tired but enjoyed it a lot. Later that night we were picked up by Callie, the lady Luke knows that we're staying with. We went back to her house - Lee, her husband, is out of town on an air force mission. We had dinner and crashed.

Today was exciting and we were proud of everything we accomplished! There's a girl down the street that watches the kids some. She's 18 and this week is kind of a spring break for all the kids in school here. So she's home from boarding school this week. She went with us today because there's no way we could go around by ourselves. Callie let us drive her car. Yea! Luke drove on the 'wrong side of the street' today and around all the round-a-bouts. A little confusing but he caught on relatively fast. So we checked out stonehenge in Salisbury - it was fun to see after learning about it in our History of Architecture classes. Then we made our way to Lacock - a little village that was very very cute. There is a really pretty abbey there, which was unfortunately closed but we walked around the town. They filmed part of the first Pride and Prejudice here - Colin Firth- mhmm. There was also a really pretty, very old church in the town that we checked out. Then we made our way to Bath. We got there too late to see the actual Roman Baths, but the town is really neat and pretty. After figuring out where to park and how to pay for the parking, we walked around and checked out the Avon River and the Baths Abbey.

And after that we headed "home".

Samantha, the girl the came along with us was doing the navigating (from a map - she didn't really know how to get back either) as Luke did the driving. After a little while of no directions and Luke had gone around a few roundabouts, Luke turns to Samantha and said "I'm kinda just following this car. Is that cool?"
It was hilarious at the moment cuz we could've been totally lost and we really had been following this car for a good amount of time. But it was totally cool and we found our way back.


Well my battery on my computer is going to die soon! I might not get back to this until I'm in Prague on Friday! This is really long - sorry about that.