dude, they had cranes...and really big helicopters

So we stayed in a hostel in salisbury that night after meeting one of the FUNNIEST guys we've encountered on this trip. he was cracking us up, thats all i have to say. kenna and lauren can word, we'll remember it in our own heads...sigh anyyyway, so we had to get up at 5 to get to stonehenge by 545 for the sunrise. after dragging ourselvs up, we met up with everyone downstairs of the hostel and hooked the bus to stonehenge. it was so misty, and peaceful as hindu cows along the hillsides with the fog and hills. insane. so we get to the area that is stonehenge, and i havent seen it yet. well i look around, i look around...and there it is. its weird seeing something you've seen hundreds of times on the history channel and then looking down to see it in your camera, the same picture.

its like i had google on my camera.

so the whole plan was is to see the sunrise, unfortunatly it had already risen, and the tour guide was oddly sad. kinda weird. so anyway, we get up to our guide, she takes us around and ends up actually taking us inside freaking stonehenge. well, she took them inside. me and about 15 others had to wait outside cause there were so many of us. so we're hanging out and she gives us these rods to try to conduct the energy of the earth and make them move

...i dont know, i couldnt figure out what the hell she was talking about.

so as we were walking up to the stones, this lady keeps telling me how much she loves the alamo and asking where san marcos is. blah, blah, blah dude lady i'm at stonehenge, give me a break. well...sigh, as i relax, she takes us inside. we actually go in the real entrance that the stoneheng-ers wanted. if you've been paying attention to the news, archeologists actually found a body of a soldier that apparently was murdered or something. i dont know if im completly accurate, but they think stonehenge was a clock, and a burial ground. that makes sense because the hills behind stoney were all burial grounds.



...i stole a pebble. anyway, enjoy the pics, they're pretty amazing. im good at this whole picture taking thing...hah

Pictures are my souviners

Salllllisbuurrrry. Mk, so story be this. We had to be at the Salisbury cathedral at precisly 4:00 on Saturday. k? well that meant we had to leave on the train from cant.terbury by 10, 11. so me and a whole bunches of lads grab the 1021 train from cant.terbury to london to catch a 1223 train down to salisbury. well the mates and i got to london and had to run across the station to make the second train. it was a blasty blast. we realized that we had a few more people from our group on our train that actually left after us, and went to another part of the london station. they said they had to cross the platform and they were there...shoot aaaaanway, so we get into salisbury. and i've got a fully charged camera. wo-freaking-hooo!finally i can snap some photos. anyway, so we get in we start to take pics, find our rendevous spot with the mcgees and stand in awe..of this










I KNOW, and then theres an INSIDE!!!!




















nuff said

wowza..

Wowza...

Dover Castle, Salisberry, Stonehenge.

So after i finished blogging last time, i had to haul ass down to get to the place we were all meeting to go to dover castle. it was an excursion i wasnt required to be a part of but...why wouldnt i??

We hopped the train to dover which was a good...20 minutes away? It was pretty easy to get there, do our thing and get home. we walked up to dover, and we had about a mile and a half of a walk to get to the castle. it was all up hill to so...screw that, we got a cab. the cabbie was a funny guy, he was telling us stories about these japanese people and they were like...where stonehenge, where stonehenge?!? theres apparently a cirle with a bunch of classy rocks around it...so he (hah) dropped them off there and let them go explore...stonehenge....haha so bad



overlooking dover

annnnnway, so we get up to the castle and its...freaking...amazing. the whole thing was all sorts of intact, it was kept up for the english to defend against the nazis in WW1 and WW2. there were these tunnels for all the soldiers to have a place for secrect missions and...hang outs i dont know. but we got to tour these underground tunnels...we'll visit that insane experience later.

so the castle was amazing, it was...something walking along the same steps that have been there since GOD knows when. it was so, so, so windy that when i looked over one of the high towers i could hear the same sounds as if i was skydiving. it was awesome. we walked around, and found the 1216 show, when peter attacked from france. the whole story revolved around dover because that was one of englands last stands of defense against the french. so, our good friend pete attacks...goes after henry i think, and loses really bad. basis of the story...sorry not a history buff.

anyway, so the tour was done really, really well. they would say, and then 'peter's archers attacked' then arrows would sound like they were hitting the wall. it was cool. they had wax statches of guys preparing for battle, making gold...whatever they did back in the day in castle days. we walked down in the . it was so freaking cool.





so after that, we all met up for the ww2 tunnels which were about 30 meters down. it was...something. we couldnt take any pictures in them, so my best explanation is...it was like i was in a really old tunnel. bahaha, its like this. these tunnels have been around since ww1. they built an underground hospital that ended up turning into a huge underground fort. they used had this room about 100 feet long by 30 feet across and about 15 high, that was for communications. all these huge computers, looked like a whole bunch of servers. it was pretty insane. literally, the end of the tunnel was the side of the cliff. which then was the english channel after that.



theeennnnnahhh, we got back, went to a few pubs, kept it an easy night and passed out around 11. good times, every one here is so social, from the locals to all the professors. bell-meterau had to fly home last night for some emergency going on, so i hope shes ok. i dont know what happened so i dont think its my place to ask, but i think shes coming back...