The Lake District

Silvana, Carolin and I went to the Lake District today.  We arrived into Windemere, and walked down to the lake, saw some very large swans.  Hung out and planned by the water for a little while. Then we took a boat ride over to Amblesway walked into town there, passed a car boot sale.  Which took me ages to understand.  Its like a garage sale but out of peoples car trunks.  I learn new British customs and words every day.  We had lunch out side at a cute little restaurant, just enjoying the first sunny day we've had in a while.  (I had a duck wrap, I'm not sure when this whole duck thing started, but I kind of like it)  Then we walked toward the bus stop but came across a sign pointing to waterfalls, so we followed that for a little while instead.  It took us up a nice little hill in the woods and past a few little waterfalls it was a really pretty walk.  Then we took an open top double decker bus to Grassmere.  The ride was really lovely, lots of mountains and views of the town from up high, and because it was open top we could see everything.  (though I'm sure that 40 min in the sun only made the sun burn worse).  When we got to Grassmere we walked through a garden and just wandered down a street for a little while before heading back to Windemere to take a train back to Lancaster.  

After we were all completely sun burned (and decided that tomorrow was the designated Sun Block buying day) we headed back to Lancaster and Carolin and I went to pizza hut for one final time before she leaves Lancaster.  I’ll see her a few more times, but that was our last pizza outing.  

I really would like to go back into the lake district and do one of the planned walks they have up through the mountains, they are supposed to have gorgeous views.  I just might do that next week.

It was really nice to get out of Lancaster with really amazing people.  I've been going stir crazy, but I have a couple weeks before I have to start really revising again, and I plan to see things in that time.