Whoops, i forgot Highgate! Oh, you know...Just hangin' with Karl Marx!

Sunday morning Sinead and i headed to Highgate semetary! It was so beautiful, we walked around the entire play exploring for an hour or so then found a bench nestled in the woods and ate lunch. It was rather lovely. Here are a bunch of pictures, it was so glorious!

Sinead

Karl Marx is buried here, too bad his grave is so subtle, we could hardly find it ;)

George Eliot is also buried here, cool huh?

Their grave says "dead." I wasn't sure how i felt about this

It was such a gorgeous place and the weather held right up until we left, then of course it started to sprinkle. <3

Getting Personal with Jane and Billy, Birthday Celebrations, Highgate Cemetery

Saturday i woke up early and decided to make my way to the British Library, which i had been waiting to visit for AGES! It was FANTASTIC! I saw so many breath-taking things! Sadly, i couldn't take any pictures but i'll give you a list of my favorite. Like a total nerd i took notes so i would remember everything i saw!

1. Original Sir Gawain and the Green Knight which i read my freshman fall at trin trin. It was in the original hand, so beautiful
2. John Milton Commonplace book (Original hand written)
3. JANE AUSTEN: They had her original desk, and on it was a few of the last pages of Persuasion. So beautiful. I almost died, i think i stared at it for like 10 minutes. It even had her glasses sitting there.
4. Original Alice and Wonderland: Maybe one of the most beautiful things i saw. They have copies of the hand written (with his beautiful pictures) book in the shop. This ones one of my favorites, the drawings are so beautiful. I was SO CLOSE to buying one because, it is such a treasure. I might actually go back at some point and get one. It really was so beautiful, and it's so wonderful you can buy the entire book with his writting and drawings on every page.
5. Original Virginia Woolfe
6. They had a whole Beetles section with scribbles of lyrics, like Yellow Submarine and even some records
7. Also in the music section they had some original Mozart compositions.
8. They had the most important texts from basically every religion imaginable.
9. Bibles and Testiments and early manuscript of psalms from the 3rd century
10. THE MAGNA CARTA! Which was really beautiful and very very tiny print. They had it in it's own separate room. 
11. There was also a roll of arms dating to  1270 which i thought was really really neat!
12. SHAKESPEARE. I am not kidding you, i almost cried when i saw the first folio of Romeo and Juliet. It's so beautiful. I certainly stared at this for at least 10 minutes with my face pressed right up against the glass. I practically gasp when i saw the huge shakespeare section and ran straight to it from the Mozart section. They even have a sheet from this play that was written by a bunch of different playwrights and based on research they believe that this page is in Shakespeares OWN hand. That was glorious.

Basically it was the best time EVER and i need to go back again at some point. But i loved it. I got lots of wonderful postcards which some of you can expect in the mail someday. I hopefully will send them out tomorrow...we'll see depending on time ;)

Sagan, Me and Stephanie

That lovely saturday night the gang all got together to celebrate our (my and Kate's) birthday's! It was soooo much fun! It was great just to hang out with all (or most of) the LDA kids and just have fun--without worrying about classes, homework or anything. It was great. We even went dancing at a club! I had such a blast, and took lots of silly pictures! <3

Marlee, Caitlin, Me, Sagan

Sagan had the most beautiful white vintage dress! And Kate got us little pink buttons to wear that said "birthday girl" on them!

Steph and Me

Alright, i'm all caught up now :D So i head off for ROME tomorrow! I promise of course to let you know how those wonderful adventures go! I'm not bringing my laptop so i'm not sure if i'll update FROM rome but we shall see. <3

I love and miss you all so much!

I ALSO wanted to make a shout out to both my beautiful grandmothers: BURGA and GRANNY. I miss them so much and i send them all my love. xoxoxo I am so lucky because i have the most supportive and loving family.

My aunt Kathy recently sent me a picture of Burga on her wedding day and it is so beautiful. I love pictures so much, so many lovely memories!

Cheers all,

T

Ps. See post above for Highgate, i'm a dumb dumb and forgot to post about it. :P

Chinatown, Cemeteries and Lovely Autumn Days...

So we got out of classes on friday and had one goal. Frozen yogurt. We decided to make the stop at Piccadilly for Waterstones. Then we decided to walk from Piccadilly to Trafalger. A really really really easy walk. But of course we went the wrong direction and got completely lost.

After awhile we did find Chinatown, which made us all hungry for chinese food. But we had a frozen yogurt destination. Eventually we just jumped on the tube and went to Charing Cross. We then we walked around a bit longer and finally found the Frozen Yogurt place. After an hour of searching, we finally got there. Then as we were leaving, we decided to go hunting for chinese. We went to chinatown and walked into a nice place. But they had a 10 pound limit PER person. It was so annoying. WE were sitting down and had ordered when he told us. So we went somewhere else and they had the SAME rule. So we just got some take away and went to trafalger.

YUMM!

It was fantastic. I got dumplings, it was fantastic :D So we just sat on the stairs and enjoyed. Then we just caught the train and jumped home!

Saturday was our FIRST saturday off! So glorious! We woke up early and headed to Notting Hill for the portobello market! It was so great, there were shops which everything was 5 pounds! I snagged some cute dresses for only 5 pounds! I can't wait to go back, they had so much there! But i left the girls early and headed over to the London bridge stop to meet with Sarah! There were so many tube troubles, but eventually we met up and she brought me to the Borough Market! We walked around looking at all the amazing food, and finally hunkered  to eat and chat. Then we kept walking running into different Markets (a book market! :D) and performers. It was so lovely!

Later that night Aylia, Sienna and i went hunting for a nice pub. Sienna had done some research as to recommended pubs. We had a nice time, but there weren't as many people our age (guess there was like some party there...so people more in their 30's) so it wasn't too interesting. We did get to chat with a few people though, which was fun.

Sunday was also lovely. Sinead and i had been planning to visit Highgate Cemetery because a.) It's beautiful and really really really old and b.) it's in this book i read this summer so i was interesting in visiting (Book: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger). It was nice but it costs 2 pounds, so we decided to come back another time where we could spend the whole day. So instead we went to the park (waterlow park) right next door and sat in the sunshine. It was gorgeous!

The Park

Peak at the Graveyard from outside fence

After a lovely picnic and chat in the park we decided to stop in this little Tea place we saw on the way to the Park. It was nice and we each got a tea for just a pound!

After another lovely chat, we headed home. I finished my lovely autumn sunday with lots of work :P But seriously the weather all weekend was GORGEOUS! Oh, and on our way home we of course saw a Spring Awakening poster i didn't recognize, so i needed to photograph it! <3

I am still upset i didn't get to see it here, but it is coming to Hartford in Feb. ;) I also had a lovely Skype chat with Jamie last night, it was good getting all the hot trinity gossip ;) Which...there really wasn't any of.

Alright gladly i'm all caught up now! <3 I'm off to do lots more work. Maybe i'll update once more tonight. This is going to be a busy week, i'm seeing LOTS of shows! :D

Cheers! T