Holmes, Abbey and Westminster.

Regents Park!

Queen's Gardens

Heyyyyyy!!!!!

:-)

Lovely Lovely Day.

Abbey Road Studios.

My signature on the Beatles wall. Too bad we only brought a pen!!!

For my boo best friend: "Amanda L. will someday be here"

Signing the Wall!

On Abbey Road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sherlock Holmes was out of toilet paper!

Awesome!

Trying on the Sherlock Holmes get-up!

The official London Beatles Store!

Cider Beer. . .I love thee!

The (other) Globe. where famous football players (allegedly) eat!

Me & Big Ben!

Another good Sunday in London!!! This morning we went to Anglican Mass at Westminster Abbey this morning which was absolutely gorgeous. The cantor was all in Latin and it was really nice to see such an ornate ceremony. I was blessed by the priest during communion so that is one of those things I'll remember forever!

After that it was pretty low key. Splurged a bit on a nice lunch of fish, chips, pea and beer (traditional London lunch) at a place where famous football players eat after every game.

Then on to Abbey Road which was crazy fun trying to run across the street quickly and snap a photo!!! I signed the wall outside of Abbey Road Studios and just had a really nice time there. Its a very posh area!!!

After that we strolled very leisurely through Regents Park. Which is quite incredibly large actually. But we saw football and quite a few cricket games. It was an absolutely beautiful day in London, once again. Now really need to get ready for bed so I'm well rested for week 2 of my internship and week 3 of London!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bath.

I just thought this would be a cool picture at the train station. I was right.

Leaving the circus or circle in American English.

Flats along the circle

Finally found it!

I need a purple velvet writing table like this!

The writing room! They are really into Persuasion for some reason even though its the book that she kinda bashes Bath.

Lovely words lifted from a surviving letters to her sister Cassandra.

These aren't her dresses persay but this one was re-created from fabric they found left over in her house. Pretty neat.

Ms. Austen's actual handwritting. Supercool.

Period pieces to show the type of clothes she describes her different characters wearing. . .

Tea Set!

Playing Cards

The infamous sillouette thought to be Jane's

Again!

Some lovely quotes from other famous authors praising her works.

Sketch.

Newspaper pages from Bath during the time Austen lived.

Some really nice pieces donated by Emma Thompson as a dedication for the center from the wonderful adaptation of Sense & Sensibility (which I also bought to read and add to my collection!)

Watercolor done by Cassandra Austen of her sister. Considered the only piece considered to be a true likeness of Jane's features.

The famous pump room!!!! I was literally just reading about this place in Northanger Abbey on my train into Bath!!!

View of the Bath's from the pump room.

Inside the pump room!

Today I took another day to myself and traveled to a city outside London that I was very excited to see, Bath.

Now while I've never been called a romantic I do have a weakness for Ms. Jane Austen so I was really pumped to see the place she has written about and even lived in. It was a treat! I got to see the Jane Austen Center (quaint but neat), the pump room (so famously visited in my latest read, Northanger Abbey) and just the wonderful streets and being in the presence of a city she first loved then hated.

I thought the Roman Baths were a little over hyped since you could see them from The Pump Room and it didn't really seem worth the 11lbs to go in and see the same thing. The rest of the city really looks identical. Beautiful but identical. It was a nice lazy day full of Jane Austen, a lovely train ride through the city and soaking up the gorgeous sunlight outside of the big city!

Tomorrow I am going to mass at Westminster Abbey. I'm not Catholic but it seems like an interesting thing to go to and experience, particularly since I'm thinking the time we are going is the all Latin service. When in Rome. . .