Greenwhich and Brighton!

Its been a busy couple of days, but really really fun ones. Yesterday I went back to Greenwhich with Zane and Natalie. I had been before several times with our GST class, but the two of them aren't in that class and wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I was excited to play tour guide and see everything again. We got out there just int time for a fabulous lunch at the market. I had some kind of Turkish pizza wrap thing which was excellent; I have fallen in love with market food 'cause it is always so cheap and good but there is so much variety. We spent the rest of the day doing the musueumy stuff. We went up the Royal Observatory and stood in two hemispheres, then we went over to the Planetarium which we hadn't done with class. It was really interactive and so we played and learned a lot! The weather was beautiful as we walked down the massive hill towards the Queens House and Maritime Museum. We spent some time there before heading over to the Painted Hall and Chapel, admiring the massive hall. Instead of taking the DLR/tube back we opted on taking a boat cruise down the Thames back to Westminster. It was really cool, literally and figuratively.

Today a group of us went to Brighton, a small coastal town about an hour train ride away. As we got out of the train and started walking into the town we saw a parade,a great omen for the day. A bunch of schools had dressed up or decorated themselves with different themes (Chinese dragons, a Flintstones group) and were marching down the street. We don't really know what it was for, but it was still fun. We had a quick lunch at a pub and then headed to the beach to take a nap. The beaches at Brighton are pebble beaches, much different from the N.C. coast, but its actually much more comfortable than you might think. After laying out for a while we headed over to the Brighton Pier to see what we could find to occupy ourselves. Zane and I found roller coasters and were quite happy. There was this one ride that hoisted you up a billion feet about the water and then turned you into a pendulum, it was so much fun! We rode a few rides and ate some pier food and then went back to the beach again. In an attempt to entertain ourselves before dinner time we buried a bottle in the rocks and then threw more rocks at it to try to knock it down. We looked like idiots, I'm sure, but we were laughing so it was good. That was the general theme of Brighton, for me. We didn't really do all that much, but we were laughing pretty much all day so it was really fun. However, while we were laying out I did get pretty sunburnt which always makes me tired, so its going to be an early night.