Day 6

Today started out as the past few have - boring class. Although we talked about the Amish so that was a topic I felt comfortable with! Morgan and I both looked at each other.. (if you haven't read her blog, she's from around Lancaster) After class we went to Hyde Park and walked around. We passed Round Pond, a popular place in the middle of the park with ducks and pretty swans and chairs that are positioned around the pond to just sit and relax. We got a little scoop of really good ice cream and saw Princess Diana's house/castle. I wasn't impressed, I figured it'd be bigger but it was cool to think that we stood where she once lived. The gift shop was full of crown souvenirs. 

Then we came back and Kaylin and I went to STA - the student travel place. We get discounts through them and they know the good / cheap hostels, flights, train tickets, etc for travel. We looked into our little backpacking excursion for August 10th-19th. We're excited! Prelim plans are London --> Vienna --> Venice --> Tuscany and Florence --> Paris --> London. All of our travel and hostels will cost us less than $1000!!! How crazy is that!? 

Since then we've been sitting in our flat working on stupid homework and travel plans. I finally uploaded my pictures, which took a while, but they're all updated! 

While we were at STA, some guy walked in and asked where some place was, turns out it was their competitor. the girl helping us looked at him and goes, "that's rude to come in here and ask that, it's down the street." It was blunt and great. But really, who does that?

It's going to be 60's and raining one day in Edinburgh this weekend, so chilly, but we'll have fun! I hope Stu is prepared to spend the weekend with me and Kaylin. I'm not so sure I'm prepared to stay in a hostel with 12 girls to a room. It will be an experience to say the least. We might go see the Lock Ness monster!! He exists apparently and we can go see him. 

Side note - we've been told in London that you're never 10 feet away from a rat. That is disgusting. We've been told to be really careful wrapping up food and taking our trash out very frequently because our flat is the most prone to rats. I find that odd since we're on the top floor, but either way, I'm definitely freaked out about it. Last night Ally, Emily and Megan heard something crawling in the walls. They said it sounded huge. I'm not quite sure what I'll do if I see a rat.. I REALLY don't want to find out!!

And - We think we might have a ghost!! or just a really weird person who lives under us. If we get too close to our wall we hear a man doing something in between moaning/grunting/groaning/heaving - totally weird and I told Kay to listen to it today and she screamed and ran out of the room. oops, she has to sleep in there tonight! So, many comforting things about our place, we all really love living here. 

I miss everyone! I hope all is well at home and the weather is more summery than it is here. On a positive note, the rain has stayed away so far! It's supposed to start tomorrow though, but we'll be leaving for the weekend.

We'll chat more tomorrow! Cheers