Mind the Buggies

Hi all!
I am happily and safely in Europe. "I'll just carry on eating it" Floyd just said. Ahhh the English are so cute. And they have such fun accents. Anyhow, Allyn and I had a little mixup in Albuquerque, as Allyn was given Jenny's passport instead of hers, so she had to be put on a later flight so her dad could drive down with hers. So we had to fly to London on our own. I was just informed that "pulling with" here is what we call "french kissing." And it's also called "snogging." So much fun. So I flew to Zurich, and Allyn's was direct. When I got to London, they had put my bag on the direct flight, (but I didn't know that) so I couldn't find it on the carosel. About 20 minutes later I went to the lost baggage claim and the guy said "Are you Sarah Boyd?" and he had my bag. It was lovely.

So then I found my bag, and almost took my mom's advise (English spelling) to cry in the middle of the place cause I couldn't find Allyn for almost 45 minutes. I even had them call her name out on the overhead. But I had to end up taking a train to the train station and then found her. The train to Bedford cost us 40 pounds total, which is 40 dollars a person. But it was a fun train ride, and the countryside was just breathtaking. Will is going to love the architecture and countryside here. Yesterday I was tired enough from not sleeping that I didn't really care about the driving on the left side of the road, but today when I was more awake, every time we turned I thought we were going to run into the car coming the other direction.

Will's aunt, uncle and two cousins are darling. Nancy reminds me a lot of Will's dad (her brother), and their kids (Kelsey and Hannah) are really nice kids (15 and 12). Nancy, Hannah, Allyn and I went on a "walk" yesterday before dinner, and we walked for 7 miles in the countryside. It's absolutely fantastic. There's so much green and so much agriculture. I was informed by a Swiss gentleman on the plane next to me from Zurich that it rains every day in England. Crazy. And did you know that the Swiss speak "Swiss German," a dialect of German, so that they can understand the Germans but the Germans can't understand them. Fascinating.

Allyn and I slept 14 hours last night, we woke up at 1 in the afternoon. It was quite lovely. I've enjoyed listening and looking for all the English that varies from the American way of speaking and writing. Like the trash is called "rubbish" and they say "soory" instead of the American pronunciation of sorry as "sary." And the title is our "beware of the carts." So it's been fun. After we woke up, we went to Cambridge, where we saw several of the 33 Universities that make up Cambridge University. It's kinda of a silly system, if you ask me. But we went to a evening service in the King's College Chapel, which was built during Henry the VIII's reign. The architecture was beautiful and the space was magnificent. I didn't really like the service, as we had to stand for most of it. There was a choir of college men that sang most of it, and the "message" consisted of the reading of two passages of Scripture.

We also walked around the city, and the shops are great. There was a fish and chips shop that we stopped to buy "chips" in, and were originally planning on taking them "away," but then decided to sit down. There wasn't any more ketchup, so I went up and asked, but there wasn't anyone behind the counter. When the guy finally came out, he said there wasn't anymore, then he said that it was 20 p (40 cents) to sit in the place. So... we left.
Tomorrow we are thinking about going to Stonehenge or maybe to Sherwood Forest, which I would be stoked about because I always say we're in Sherwood Forest when we're in any kinds of woods. There's a Strawberry Fest on Saturday that we're going to (Kelsey and Bert are going to the London football (soccer) game). Then Sunday Kelsey has a cricket match that I'm quite excited about.

Love you all!
Sarah