Day 18

Today began with one of the most beautiful things that I could imagine - an all you can eat buffet for breakfast. Even more amazing is the fact that we will be receiving these breakfasts for another entire week until we hit Dublin.

After breakfast, we all piled onto the bus for the ride into Windermere and saw Dove Cottage, which is basically where Wordsworth lived for about 8 years and wrote most of his famous works. In my opinion, the garden, or backyard, was the most impressive because of how truly beautiful it was.

We then met with this guy who told us a lot about Wordsworth's past, quizzed us on some of his works (which we failed) and then showed us some awesome old books and allowed me and John to hold a couple of them. Following this, I went to eat lunch with Kean, Chris, Michelle and Erica. We then proceeded back to the bus and drove for about 30 minutes to our new place of residence, which ended up being the only 4-star hotel in the city which was pretty neat. I met up with Dylan, Nate, Jake, Jeff, Honi and Amy and we went on a little excursion into the wilderness. What we discovered there, I will never tell. Just kidding - we actually found a team-building exercise playground in which we messed around with for quite a bit. Nate and I both slipped on the giant teeter-totter....but it was fun nonetheless. We all then walked the long trek into town, seeing tons of cows along the way, and eventually decided to look for a place to eat since it was raining pretty heavily. Nate got hit on by this old man and then we ended up eating some pizza at this restaurant. We sat here for a good few hours before making the journey back home, where Jake and I sat with Chloe, Parker and Mary for a few minutes before they left and we met up with Dr. Foy. We had a good conversation with him and then headed to our rooms, where I passed out automatically. Great, exhausting day!