Today was Stonehenge and Salisbury day.

Wake up time: 7:45 am

Scheduled departure: 8:45 am

Actual departure due to a no-show coach: 10:15 am

Amount of sleep lost: 1.5 hours

Was it worth it? YES.

This entry is better spoken through pictures. I will commentate when necessary.

1. Cute little British boy in the prayer candle area behind the alter of Salisbury Cathedral. Isn’t he cute? I don’t think he knew I was taking this photo.

2.The medieval Salisbury Cathedral reflected in the modern sculpture fountain.

3.The core four in front of Stonehenge! Folks… it is SMALL but it is still so amazing and worth it.

4.When we got close to Stonehenge the traffic started getting thick, which we realized on our way OUT was because cars literally stopped in the middle of the highway to take photographs. Marie, our guide told us she did not think they were going to make a fake Stonehenge, but that they were going to move the highway and bus people in.

Cool point about the Cathedral: There was a tomb of a man who was an illegitimate child of Henry II and was married to a wealthy heiress. When he was shipped off to war, everyone thought him dead, and a sneaky gentleman tried to marry his wife for her money. But, she refused, and eventually her husband turned up again. However, he mysteriously died and no one ever really knew how until hundreds of years later when his tomb was opened and an extremely well preserved RAT was found in the tomb, leading historians and archeologists to believe that he died of arsenic poisoning. Crazy how they can figure that out so many years later isn’t it?
Homework has begun to become an issue. Alas……The real world does still exist. On the bus today I did some reading for my Beatles class, and have some trivia for Marie again. :)

John Lennon lived with his aunt Mimi, who was strict and detested John’s “Teddy” clothes and friends. John visited with his mother every day, but never lived with her. She was hit by a car and killed instantly when he was a teenager.
Paul McCartney’s mother also died when he was a teenager, but she died of breast cancer.

That is all that is super interesting from today’s reading. The book is called “Shout” and is a biographical timeline, and obviously I am still in earlier stages of their lives.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year! Happy New Year y’all.