Oi, cheers everyone,
Still in England, in fact we've just had our first real day in London and it was great! This is Big Ben speaking...and I want to start off by thanking everyone who's admitted to reading this thing, and kept in contact, because we would be a bit homesick by now without that! That's not to say we're hurting for Louisville after only a week and some, but it's getting a little empty in my belly and everyone speaks differently...We just miss you guys.
Now that the mushy part is over, here's what happened on thursday the 21st of May. Let's go backwards for a change. We've just entered the hostel and plopped down at the computer, which is free, a great change. After checking our facebooks and getting several encouraging, gushing messages, I'm writing the blog and Molly is...wait a minute...oh still looking at facebook. ha. Ok so before we got to the hostel, we had a 3 mile walk from Paddington station (the namesake of paddington bear). During the rather cold walk(we forgot sweatshirts), we saw a fox on the sidewalk, and didn't get lost for once! We were coming from Paddington because we had taken an hour long train ride from Oxford --the famous college that I convinced everyone I know I was going to for a while. ha again. Anyway, at Oxford, we walked around the oldest college town in the world (mentioned in the Canterbury Tales for crying out loud), saw a LOT of preppy boys that looked like Prince William, and ended up at the Eagle and Child Pub. The "Bird and the baby", as it's known to Oxfordians, is this quaint little pub on gyles street boasting mostly beer battered things to eat, and bad beer and things to drink. Fish and chips flowed like milk and honey, and we were even able to sneak a peak at the Rabbit Room, the famous meeting spot of the Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkein, etc) during the 20s and 30s. I was in heaven. Before we went to Oxford, we slept in until about 1 oclock--thanks to running all over in the rest of Great Britain and Ireland--with only a brief wake up for free breakfast. I'm a little confused at this point, but I think that covers it mostly.
watch out for ballocks
Ben&Molly
Quote for the Day:
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse -C.S. Lewis
