Jealous yet?Edit (7:54PM): Roundcube's working again! I think I'll go dance.
Royal Crescent
Anyway, I had an absolutely fantastic weekend with Whitney in Bath. It was so great to see another Ole who isn't leaving soon! This means I can say, unabashedly, that the weekend was amazing, and untainted with jealousy or sadness (because the other person gets to go back/will be leaving me). We both got in late Thursday night, caught up, and went to bed. The next day, we toured. We were so efficient--it wasn't even funny. We toured Bath Abbey in 15 minutes. We saw the Roman Baths, the Pump Room, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Assembly Rooms/Fashion Museum, all before 2:00. We even got to take tea in the Assembly Rooms, and then I felt really cool. Oh, and we also learned to how to speak with fans and I had to try on a corset. I got a headache soon after--I wonder if this may have something to do with the incredibly prevalent "brain fever" in Victorian literature...(which is pretty much my favorite disease of all time. I mean, brain fever? It's pretty much hilarious). Then, we wandered around Bath for a while, looking at the flowers and the Georgian architecture, and the "bird aviary" in the Royal Gardens. That evening, we hung out at the hostel for the most part, though we did venture out to find the Wetherspoons (because it was called the Kings of Wessex--the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kings during the bulk of the Viking invasions through to the Norman Conquest), only to decide that we were not, in fact, hungry.
One of Jane Austen's homes in Bath, now dental surgery.
Yep. I got to go to Stonehenge! I'm still so excited about being there. It's kind of ridiculous. But good lord, people, it's Stonehenge!! And we were there early in the morning, so there weren't that many people there. We spent about an hour there, before driving on to Avebury, another stone circle in Wiltshire.
That was almost cooler, because you could walk among the stones and even touch them. Next, we went to Lacock, which is a historic little village now owned by the National Trust. 
A house in Lacock, used as the Potter house in the films
They've used it for all kinds of different movies, including Harry Potter and the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice. Finally, we headed on to Castle Combe, in the Cotswolds, which has also been a movie set, for the Dr. Doolittle with Rex Harrison and for Stardust.
Castle Combe
I was really excited about that. There's also a Crusader buried in the church there, and according to the little sign in the church, he had been on two Crusades. How do they know this? The legs of his effigy are crossed. Does anyone else feel like they make this stuff up sometimes?When we got back that night, we decided to go see a movie (so we wouldn't be quite so pathetic as the night before!). So we went to National Treasure. Whitney had never seen the first, but I assured her it would be fine. After all, neither had Catie, and she seemed to do just fine watching it in Italian! I'm so glad I got to see it again--it's really nice to see it in a language I understand. Besides, I love the first one so much...anyway, after the movie, there were about twenty million people in our room, so we headed out to a pub and sat there for a while before going to bed.
Today, we got up and wandered aimlessly before deciding we had pretty much covered Bath in a matter of hours on the first day and just going to the train station. I caught a train to London that was so crowded that I had to lean against the luggage rack for two hours. It was absurd. Then, I had to catch a bus to Colchester and finally a train to Norwich. I just got back (and found out my email doesn't work). So, yeah. I had a great weekend. I saw a ton, and I'm so glad I went.
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