Sunday, June 17, 2012

Europe: Day 1 (or 2 I suppose)

We left Charlotte at 6:30 p.m. yesterday (June 15) and arrived at Gatwick airport at 2:30 a.m. Charlotte time (7:30 London time.) No one got much sleep on the plane and we're trying to make it 'til 9 or so to hopefully lessen the jet lag. Needless to say, we're all quite tired. However, we are relaxing in our lovely, quaint cottage (which I will post pictures of as soon as my batteries are charged.)

We took things very easy today. After claiming our luggage, we went to pick up our rental car. Of course the steering wheel is on the right side of the car and everything is in a different spot, so we spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out where everything was and dying laughing at dad's confused comments. Dad finally decided he knew enough about the car to drive it so we set off for our cottage with a few little swerves here and there as dad got used to the road. Stonehenge was on the way to our cottage so we stopped there to look at it and take some pictures. Then, we drove on to our cottage, dropped our stuff off, and went to find some lunch. We ended up eating at a very yummy pub called The Mason's Arms. Elizabeth, Nathan, and I ordered two Steak and Ale pies (all alcohol cooked out of course) along with chips (fries) and roasted veggies. It was deeeeelicious! Our last stop was at the Carphone Warehouse in Bath where we got our cell phone. No we're chilling out trying to make until 9 o clock.








At the airport waiting to get our car








My first breakfast in England! (My stomach wasn't feeling great)

Stonehenge





They were having some sort of ceremony in the middle of stonehenge



Our family in front



Our yummy food at the Mason's Arms

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