How I Almost saw Stonehenge

Dear blog-readers,

I know it has been a while since I wrote anything and I’m sorry- but it has been a while since anything particularly exciting has happened to me. But no worries I have a bit for you now and some more to come later J

Emily and our English friend Abbi and I took a trip to Salisbury to go see Stonehenge and the Salisbury Cathedral the other weekend. We thought we would make a relaxing Saturday out of it and got started on our journey around 12:45. We got to Salisbury a little after 2 and waited for this amazing bus tour that only cost 19 pounds and would take us to see all this cool stuff! After about 45 minutes of waiting, yours truly wizened up and asked the lady at the train station for more information. The last bus left at 2pm, and we had literally been waiting for nothing. Fabulous.

So we had a look around the town and then we walked to the Cathedral because it was really close to the train station. The last tour started at 4:00pm. We got there at about 4:05. Fabulous. So after Abbi bought the guidebook for 2 pounds we made her give us the informational tour! It was very insightful and we got to go at our on pace. Not to mention the choir was practicing at the time so we had some beautiful music resonating through the Cathedral.

The most interesting (and absurd) thing that we found in the Cathedral was something called ‘The Bumping Stone.’ (see picture below paragraph) There is a stone in Salisbury Cathedral that they use to “initiate” new choir boys into the choir. They “bump” the boy’s head against the stone three times before he can be accepted into the choir. Sounds like hazing to me, and in a church none-the-less. We can’t even call our pledges PLEDGES in Phi Mu at Lander. How backwards is that?

The other really awesome thing we did in Salisbury was go to one of Abbi’s favorite restaurants called Wagamamas. I did not make that name up! It was a Japanese place that served AWESOME stir-fry. (Dad you would have loved this place!) 

I ate so much I nearly split my pants there. Wish I was kidding but I’m not. We had a really awesome time even thought we failed to see what we really came to see. Oh well. We will try again soon. Look for my next post! Should contain stories from a trip to Eastleigh and Bath!

(The picture above is the court yard that is inside the Cathedral. Kind of beautiful, right?)

As always, Thanks for reading!

<3 M

P.S. I promise to be a better blog poster :) you will have another lengthy post about Bath and our 2nd failure in trying to see Stonehenge.. That's right, Emily and I managed to fail again. Priceless!