This will have to be another quick post, since I'm still getting over yesterday's fever and I'm on a professor's iPad again. Yes, mother, I had a fever but I'm fine and both professors have been looking after me. It's all good!
This morning was a bit later of a start, but the breakfast milk was warm and skim so I stuck with toast which was weird because I ALWAYS have milk and cereal for breakfast. But it's cool, I lived. Our first stop then was William Morris' country hem at Kelmscott Manor. It's a gorgeous place with beautiful architecture out in the middle of the country and I adore it. I kinda want to move to Kelmscott now. We toured the house with all its amazing textiles and did some sketching. I chose to draw a stairwell, and it actually turned out pretty nicely. We also had lunch there, which consisted of cheese hunks, bread and butter, and salad. Yay for Sarah food! It was fancy and simple at the same time and looked lovely. I did take a picture. Before we left, I also got my first up close picture of a horse in England which made me ridiculously excited!
After Kelmscott, we drove to the Uffington White Horse. Well, we drove to the car park. Then we hiked up the hill. It was insanely windy up there and TONS of fun - we all posed on the hill and held out our jackets like flying squirrels and we actually got some lift going on! The horse looked really cool, and then the walk and conversation to the smithy was fantastic. The smithy itself was really cool too - something like 5500 years old and just this really interesting Neolithic burial ground. It's incredible that it's still standing. Dinner was at a pub tonight, and consisted of me and Cara and Erica and Paul and Jayme. Absolutely great, hilarious conversation, and I had a cheese toasty and chips and pancakes with ice cream for dessert - I don't normally like pancakes, but it sounded really good and it WAS! Yum!! Great day! More tomorrow!
You must have a REALLY great mother, if she worries about you. : )
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