Oh my word!
I realized after re-reading my last post that I completely forgot the best part about the Queen Victoria story!! If you haven't read that yet then STOP READING NOW AND READ THE PREVIOUS POST. Seriously, you're only ruining things for yourself.
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Anyway, to those of you who read the post before this... in continuing the Queen Victoria & St. Paul story... AFTER St. Paul was remodeled & beautified & what not, Queen Victoria was scheduled to come back to St. Paul for a second visit. They were obviously pretty pumped, since they knew she would love the new, gorgeous, sparkling interior. So Queen Victoria arrives at the Cathedral, takes a look at the stairs to the front entry and announces that she is too tired to enter the cathedral & thus, the service is held outside. Ah, the power of the monarch...
Today we went to Christ Church for a tour. For those of you who don't know, Christ Church is the location where a bulk of the Harry Potter series have been filmed. I myself am not really a follower of Harry Potter, but I guess that's cool. Anyway, better than that, today while we were there, apparently Nicole Kidman was also there, shooting an upcoming movie. We saw the location where they were recording, and even had to wait in one area, while we watched [fake] smoke pour out an open window, then a woman ran out and said, "Cut! They can walk through again!" Much to our chagrin, Nicole was no where to be seen the whole afternoon. If her little movie crew was going to hold up our tour, they could have at least had the decency to let us watch the filming! But I digress...
OKAY - so I have some good news & some bad news!!!!
The GOOD news.......
Over fall break (Sept. 28 - Oct. 3), this lovely sextet:
Leilani, Laura, Laruen, myself, Jill & Megan
are all going here:
... Italy.
YES! We are flying from London to Venice, where we will spend two days. Then we are going down to Florence for a day, and then we are going down to Rome for 2 days and flying back to London from there! We are all very excited & looking forward to great adventures. And yes, we will be careful. Thank you for your concern, prayers & shared excitement!!
And for the BAD news..... actually, I guess I lied, because I really just don't have any bad news!
Hope all is well on the home front! It is sunny & beautiful in Oxford, UK! :)
Love to all,
Rachel
I realized after re-reading my last post that I completely forgot the best part about the Queen Victoria story!! If you haven't read that yet then STOP READING NOW AND READ THE PREVIOUS POST. Seriously, you're only ruining things for yourself.
~
Anyway, to those of you who read the post before this... in continuing the Queen Victoria & St. Paul story... AFTER St. Paul was remodeled & beautified & what not, Queen Victoria was scheduled to come back to St. Paul for a second visit. They were obviously pretty pumped, since they knew she would love the new, gorgeous, sparkling interior. So Queen Victoria arrives at the Cathedral, takes a look at the stairs to the front entry and announces that she is too tired to enter the cathedral & thus, the service is held outside. Ah, the power of the monarch...
Today we went to Christ Church for a tour. For those of you who don't know, Christ Church is the location where a bulk of the Harry Potter series have been filmed. I myself am not really a follower of Harry Potter, but I guess that's cool. Anyway, better than that, today while we were there, apparently Nicole Kidman was also there, shooting an upcoming movie. We saw the location where they were recording, and even had to wait in one area, while we watched [fake] smoke pour out an open window, then a woman ran out and said, "Cut! They can walk through again!" Much to our chagrin, Nicole was no where to be seen the whole afternoon. If her little movie crew was going to hold up our tour, they could have at least had the decency to let us watch the filming! But I digress...
OKAY - so I have some good news & some bad news!!!!
The GOOD news.......
Over fall break (Sept. 28 - Oct. 3), this lovely sextet:
Leilani, Laura, Laruen, myself, Jill & Megan
are all going here:
... Italy.
YES! We are flying from London to Venice, where we will spend two days. Then we are going down to Florence for a day, and then we are going down to Rome for 2 days and flying back to London from there! We are all very excited & looking forward to great adventures. And yes, we will be careful. Thank you for your concern, prayers & shared excitement!!
And for the BAD news..... actually, I guess I lied, because I really just don't have any bad news!
Hope all is well on the home front! It is sunny & beautiful in Oxford, UK! :)
Love to all,
Rachel
posted by Rachel at 1:42 PM
7 Comments:
SO Italy is shaped like a boot and Michigan is shaped like a hand, and England is shaped like Kidney, and new York is shaped like ummmmm a a Simpsons character. Put them all together and you have me missing you.
Anyways...
I Love you,
Douglas
Nice comment, Doug...anyways, this CLEARLY is not IM group chat, so on to the real reason I am writing: RACHEL, I am SOOO happy that you are having fun and that you LOVE England! And I cannot believe you are going to ITALY!!! Please take LOTS of pictures because I can't wait to hear all about it and laugh together! You are hilarious and you make me laugh really hard when you write stuff. I miss you and in case you forgot, you're beautiful!!!
Love,
Lyndsay
Actually, your good news is my bad news. I've only heard very negative things about the men in Italy being publically forward with women. They don't have all the sexual harassment education there. I think you ought to come home and see your dad instead of going to Italy. At the very least you better take a different wardrobe with you... like a burqa.
What's up with your classes... Don't they study in Oxford? How do you go from being eaten by a shark in swamped work while treading perilious waves, only to be followed by leaving for Italy in a few short days. Riddle me that?
Miss you. Love you.
Your Poppa.
Ahh Rachel! I'm sitting in the basement of Dietzman Hall on a rainy day reading your blog and dreaming of seeing all you are seeing! :) You ARE a blessed girl and I'm thrilled you're getting this experience! Soak it in!! Blessings, Lena
Hi Rach!
It looks and sounds like you're having a blast!! I'm so excited for you. I simply love reading your blogs and seeing how you're doing. What classes are you taking?
I just filled out my passport papers just in case something will still work out. Hannah wants to come over with me too! It would be amazing to have a best friend/cousin week in Europe! Just so you know according to my schedule I could come over anywhere from nov 16ish thru nov 26ish.
I saw your family over the weekend at an Albion football game. The U.S. misses you lots.
Love you beautiful girl, can't wait to talk to you/see you!
Ariel
aka. Kathryn Elizabeth
Rachel,
We decided to switch programs with you...you come to Africa, and we'll go to the UK. Okay? We're glad to hear that everything is going great for you! You're having all these new adventures! How fun! We'll check up on you whenever we get the chance...hopefully at least once before you're back in the states. We love you and miss you!
Love,
The Castles
I went to a service at St. Pauls as well and it really is amazing...as is Florence! One of my favorite cities of all time. Rome is good too (lots of fun tourist stuff) but Florence is Italy.
-Andrea LaBenne
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