For those of you who like nature and the outdoors and soaking up the beauty and wonder that is our planet, I highly recommend a trip to the Lake District some time in your life. I learned a lot too. For one thing, I have never seen so many sheep before in my life! It was so different to see sheep with long tails and furry cows.
Before I go any further with how breath-taking the view was, I'm going to divert the narrative to the thing behind the sheep; yes, the wall. The reason I want to talk about the wall for a minute is because everything about this wall is mind-blowing to me. This wall is made by a process called dry-stoning. There is absolutely nothing holding this wall together except for gravity. No concrete, no anything. This is process that has been used for centuries and is a craft that is dying out, but still is used, especially in really steep hilly areas. for some reason it's the most popular and most practical. It stays up really really well too. They even make houses and buildings by this process. The reason this is so fascinating to me is because of the weather that is common to the Midwest all year long.
We drove around looking at several different lakes for a while, it seemed like each lake was somehow more beautiful than the last.
The roads were really narrow driving up the hills and at times really really steep, but the view was, well, like I've already said, breath-taking. There really aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe the wonder of this area, so I'll just show you more pictures.
Once we were to Lake Windemeer (Sp?), we took a ferry to the other side.
We decided to take a little drive around the town to see what there was going on around the town. We were going to get some ice cream when Geoff spotted a place where you could rent a motorboat to take on the lake by yourself for about $30 for up to 2 hours. It was a lot of fun, even though the boat was extremely slow, even at full speed.
It even allowed for us to see some views we wouldn't have been able to see otherwise.
Once we were done at the Lakes, Sam and I went out to see a movie, Letters to Juliet. It's a pretty good movie, even though I'm not a huge fan of romantic movies.
Yesterday Judy and I went to Pendle Hill, a hill associated with a legend of witches. The scenery was incredible! But unfortunately, I can't upload anymore pictures right now. It was really cool going around and seeing all the little villages and looking at the beautiful gardens. One thing about England that I've really been looking at is the gardens. That's one thing that people spend a lot of time doing and put a lot of effort into. Along with the actual gardens themselves, people are very picky about the hedges around here. Most of them seem to be perfectly manicured and trimmed almost all the time. And almost everyone has hedges in front of their front yards. It's a little bit different than what I'm used to seeing, but it's still really cool.
So that brings us to today. I'm left on my own for the first time since being here and it's kinda nice. I'm able to catch up on things, cleaned my room a little bit, did some of my laundry, and put some of the dishes away from last night and cleaned the rest of them. I know I'm not supposed to be doing my own laundry and things like that, but I'm getting a little restless not doing things for myself. I hope everyone has a great day!
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