Friday was an early day for Christine and I, who decided to have a slumber party out on the couches after going out Thursday night. We caught the bus bright and early for the field trip to Canterbury Cathedral and Leeds Castle. After a roughly two-hour bus ride, we arrived in Canterbury and got to go and see the cathedral. At this point, however, I'm pretty cathedraled out. I feel like they all look pretty similar, so I like to go inside to see the stained glass windows, but that's about it. Christine and I were starving by the time we reached the cathedral, so we only walked around for a bit before retiring to a fish and chips place for lunch. Afterwards, we went shopping and I bought a pair of GREEN PANTS (I'm very excited about them).
We caught the bus a few hours later to go to Leeds Castle. When we got there, we were pleasantly surprised. You had to walk about a mile down a long road before getting to the castle, which had been refurbished so that it looked just as it would have in the middle ages. It was supremely interesting. After we toured the castle, we walked a little further down behind the castle, where they had a bird exhibit (random) and a HEDGE MAZE (I was excited about this as well). The goal of the maze was the reach the center, where it was elevated and you could see the entire maze. Christine and I got lost in it for about 30-40 minutes before finally finding the center. It was awesome. After you found the center, you got to take a secret passageway out of the maze (rather than having to try to find your way back to the entrance), which led you through this really crazy/creepy cave thing.
Everyone was pretty tired on Friday night, so after we got back we just made some dinner and watched Notting Hill with the rest of the gang before heading to bed early.
Saturday morning I had to wake up to bring my laptop in to the Apple store because the screen was on the fritz and was probably going to break soon. They told me they would have to take it for 2ish weeks to repair it :(. I did, however, get to go to the prettiest mall I've ever been to. It was super upscale and had a store for any designer you can possibly imagine. Crazy. After that I met up with Christine and we went shopping on Oxford Street at Primark (super cheap clothing store - awesome!) even though Primark was like a zoo. It seriously reminded me of Black Friday. After shopping, neither of us were feeling well, so we slept through the afternoon before going out at night. We all ended up going to Shakespeare's Head, along with Ramon's sister who flew in to visit, for drinks and conversation. It was nice because it wasn't too busy, which was odd for a Saturday night, but at least we were able to sit down and talk without it being super crowded and loud.
Today is a lazy day, and I'm probably just going to hang out at my flat and do work, but perhaps an adventure is in store for later this evening... you never know when we're going to go exploring on a random night.
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