Whoppee!! I'm bacl from Oxford!! Start cheering, everyone. In the last two weeks, I watched 12 and a half movies, a musical and a play. :) Of movies, I watched terminator 3, playing god, spy kids 3D, matchstick men, swimming pool, master and commander, Wyatt Erp, the great train robbery of St. Trinians, transporter, tears of the sun, and half of Johnny English. I saw half on it on the plane there and figured it was too bad to bother completing on the flight back... Then, I caught anything goes from these fantastic seats in the theatre. Front row, of the second centre block. The seats were amazing and the musical was almost as good. ;) Hahaha, nah, the musical was lovely.
Finally, I watched Lord Arthur Saville's Crime. Very, very funny play about this guy who's about to get married. He sees a chiromantist who tells him he will commit a single murder in the future and decides he will valiently try to commit the murder before the marriage so as to spare his bride the embarrasment and humiliation and what not. Anyway, I shan't spoil it for those who haven't watched it (although, what are the chances of you actually going to watch it??), but suffice to say he's 'a true son of english nobility', i.e. not good at anything he does.
It rained most of the time there, and when it wasn't raining, it was foggy. So, I only got to go out sightseeing on one occasion. I travlled all the way south to see the Solisbury (pronounced solsbury) Cathedral and the previous two spots it was at. Along with the old site where solisbury used to be. The cathedral was absolutely fantastic. The, we went back North, seeing the Stonehenge along the way and Avebury. We also got to see Sting's modest, 42-million pound, sprawling estate. I'm so jealous... :(
I also visited the Games Workshop in Oxford once. Yay!! It's so much cheaper there it's amazing. I bought quite a bit to supplement my army and I bought a a carrying case for my army too. I bought a saw too, so I can finally work on the models I want changed. Yes!
I also found out they had a Charlie brown cartoon! *Gasp* So, I have a video of Snoopy's family playing a bunch of instruments. :) And they have Garfield!! How unfair is that?? So, while my mom went out shopping and walking around, I lay in bed the few days we were in London and watched cartoons! Wee!! The hotel we stayed in in London was really quite cool. On one side, you have fendi and on the other you have gucci. Along the way you have Ferragamo, Bvlgari, Dior, Kenzo, Armani, etc etc. And across the road is Natwest and HSBC. Hmm... I wonder why? :P
Also, during our stay in London, the rugby stars were paraded down several streets to the Buckingham Palace. So, the streets were really corwded. I refused to budge from bed and spent my morning with charlie brown, garfield and bugs bunny. :D Anyhow, it was a fantastic trip altogether, and I had a wonderful time.
Posted by Ming at December 16, 2003 02:33 AM