St. Albans

Today we made a trip to St. Albans which is a city full of Roman ruins. The town is what I pictured of England in the first place. It's a very quiet town with a lot of little Harry Potters. We visited an old roman theatre which dates way back (I'm not sure on the date). It's pretty amazing how everything was made without technology. There are a lot of parts of old houses too, and the history behind every single one of them is very awesome. We went to a viewing site of an old roman mosaic and it was the actual floor of a house. I found it really cool how they had some sort of heating system way back then. What they did was they had a furnace room where they put coal and fire and from there they built a little tunnell and that's how the heat went throughout the house. Why didn't we think of that?!

Also in St. Albans we went to our first pub. I loved it there mainly because I could touch the ceiling! =) I had my first cup of English tea and I discovered that it's really strong and their tea bags are round instead of square. I had a grilled chicken sandwhich thing which was pretty good, but still not as good as McDonalds (which I haven't gotten here yet, but I will eventually).

After our train ride back we walked around, and looked in a bunch of shops. Since we couldn't come to a consensus on something to do as a group, me and two other girls (Tiffany and Meagan) decided to go and try to get ourselves lost in London. So, we started out on the underground and made the first stop. We had no idea where we were, so we took another Underground to somewhere else we didn't know. We ended up finding Picadilly Circus and China Town. We ended up making it back to the hotel around 1am. It was fun, but it started raining cats and dogs towards the end of our adventure.

Something I'm starting to notice here is that dogs are more welcome than humans anywhere! They're allowed in the pubs, trains, and stores. It's so crazy. And it's crazy because there are no open container laws here, so people just walk around drinking alcohol. Another random/weird thing is I keep looking into vehicles and thinking "There's no driver!!!"

We're heading to Bath tomorrow and I'm super excited to go there. Cheers!