On Friday we took a stroll through the woods that are outside our flat. It was probably only a 10 minute walk, but we took 2 hours because we stopped and were taking all sorts of pictures! It amazes me how beautiful it is! I am going to make a facebook album and post the link here to it so everyone can see the pictures and the captions. It's easier to upload pictures onto facebook is massive amounts. :)
Click me to look at pictures of our stroll.
I'm going to keep a running list of England-isms that I come across during the days:
1) "Are you you queuing?" Some asked us this as we were waiting for one of us to get some pounds from the ATM, it means "are you in line?"
2) Last night we were sitting in the flat and knew there were drinking games going on because we could hear the "marryment" across the way. At around 11pm, we started hearing some chanting, "BOOTHROYD D! BOOTHROYD D!!" There were some drunken men yelling at our windows to come join in the fun. It was rather hilarious. We didn't amuse them, but then they started yelling profanities, good times.
3) At the grocery stores it's a whole nother world: the cashiers sit, you bag your own groceries, with your own bags that you own, the "trollies" you have to put a pound in to get one and then you get it back when you turn the trolley back in. This saves the store from having to hire someone to collect trollies through the whole parking lot and also from people stealing them.
4) Driving on the other side of the road isn't really that weird until it's time to merge onto or off the freeway. And CIRCLES!!!! SOOOOOOO weird going clockwise around the rotaries!!!
More to come :)
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