Lunch in the park

We had a great weekend spending most of it eating baguettes  in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens or roaming the streets of Kensington.  The parks here are amazing...Seattle times 10000.  So big and pretty.  The weather has been so beautiful, everyone goes to the park and sits in the grass and just eats lunch.  There were mad amounts of people at Kensington Gardens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The thing that really surprises me, and that I LOVE to death, is all of the loose dogs romping around.  The people here just let their dog off the leash and they run around the park and play with kids and other dogs.  They dont have a care in the world and their owners dont even watch the, they dont worry at all.  Prada would so love this place.  I just want to live here and get a dog and be a nanny and play with these really cute kids with british accents in the park all day long!  There was a little boy, maybe 3 or 4 years old, he was telling us jokes and collecting trash and filling all of the bottles with mud, he was having the best day of his life, i swear.  So cute.

We still have not been to any museums yet but we plan to go after classes from not on because all of the museums in the UK are free.  I could believe it.  Hopefully we can make it to the zoo or the aquarium also, because we all want to go.  

We have been waling everywhere in this really nice neighborhood and its really funny because they dont have street garbage cans here,  they leave their trash bags on the sides of the streets and the garbage men pick it up every couple of days.  People who walk their dog pick up the poop on a bag but then leave it on the street.  Its so weird to see, especially in Kensington which is soooo fancy and nice.

We saw our first play tonight.  It was a straight play called "woman in black" about a ghost.  It got really creepy/scary at the end.  It was about a woman who had died and a guy had to go look through all of the papers in her haunted house.  The ghost was her sister who was wanting her son back, who had also died...it was confusing.  But basically at the end we found out that when a person saw the ghost (the woman in black) a child dies, because her child died.  So the story was about the guy who went to the house and he saw her and his son died, he wanted to do a play about his story and the guy who was helping him saw the woman and it ended...so we assume that his son also dies.  It was crazy!  Some people fell asleep because they said there was no music to keep them entertained (Olivia, haha) I love that stuff though so I liked it but it was a little scary.  Ghost stories scare me. ahhh.

We finally got rain for the 1st time this morning, I walked to class at 8:40am and it was raining.  it felt so good.  It was like Seattle summer rain, a little warmer outside and it wasnt pouring rain, it was good rain...not like Arizona.  It smelled so good walking in the rain.  I loved it.  I was the only one without an umbrella too.  It was funny.

Going to the Globe theatre tomorrow morning early.  We are going to learn about shakespeare and how he started and everything, so excited but need my sleep, up at 8am!!  Hopefully after class we will go to a museum!

Peace 

MalMil