I want to sing and dance and be a pirate of Penzance!

Arrrgh Matey!

This was a jam packed week.  Staring off we had classes Monday and Tuesday which were fine, but come Wednesday we packed our bags and headed out south. Our first stop was to Stourhead.  This is the place where all of the lake scenes from Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley. It was gorgeous!  We then headed of to see Thomas Hardy's house.  He was some famous author who wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles, sorry it was the house where he was born, not where he lived.  We then headed out to Penzance to spend the night at a YMCA hostel.  It was surprisingly a lot nice then I was expecting.  We got there about eight and the whole town was asleep so we just went down to the beach and walked around then walked back.  Thursday we went to a beach-who knew a really pretty beach could come out of England!?-but it was a cornish beach with a great story to go along with it-you should ask me sometime!  We then went to St. Michael's Mount.  It is an island in the morning when the tide is in then once it goes out you can walk across the causeway to see it.  It was some fort that some monks say they saw the Archangel Michael and now it is a house that some duke lives in or something like that, i wasn't really paying attention when they told us why it was important.  After a few hours of St. Michael's we drove and spend the night at another hostel in Exeter. And just like Penzance the whole town shuts down really early so we entertained ourself with a walk along the Exeter river and singing show tunes for men in windows.  Friday was a little confusing, we had other plans but due to poor planning they fell through.  So instead of our original plans, we went to the Exeter Cathedral-which really is the only thing to see in Exeter-then headed to Lyme.  Lyme, in case you didn't know is where they filmed the movie Persuasion.  We reenacted a scene from the movie-watch it and you will understand. After a few hours at the beach in Lyme, and eating super yummy ice cream we headed home.  So there is my week in a nutshell, hopefully the pictures will help the explanation. 

Well best be off

Love you all

em