Home safe and sound...and severely depressed about leaving the mild, almost warm-at-times London weather and coming home to freezing temps and crazy, biting wind, and LOTS of ss-ss-n-nn-o-ow-w!!! BRRR!
Now I can catch up on all the posts I've missed in the past few crazy weeks...yay?
Friday, December 11, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
In Search of Mr. Darcy
24 November 2009
Steph and I love love love the new version of Pride and Prejudice.
Therefore, we couldn't visit England without stalking out his house. The movie used Chatsworth House, the home of the Dukes and Duchesses of Devonshire in the Peak District.
So we got a hostel in Sheffield nearby and the next morning it was a short bus ride to Chatsworth!!
It was all decorated for Christmas.
The large hall leading was gorgeous! Here's the beautiful ceiling.
This is the room you see Lizzy walk through when they first get to Darcy's house! Here I am wondering where Mr. Darcy is :(
Not under the Christmas tree!
They had some fun period costumes and wigs for kids at the top of the stairs. We tried some stuff on. The old people thought we were adorable!!
Lovely dining room
We walked through the amazing room of sculptures that Lizzy did!! If only they'd had the fake bust of Darcy!!
Here are the ones they actually had--lots seen from the movie!!!
I loved this big sweet guy!!
We got our first mince pies with mulled wine. Sooo good!!
It was pretty wet but we loved all the gardens!
C'mon! Who WOULDN'T go looking for that face!!!
Steph and I love love love the new version of Pride and Prejudice.
Therefore, we couldn't visit England without stalking out his house. The movie used Chatsworth House, the home of the Dukes and Duchesses of Devonshire in the Peak District.So we got a hostel in Sheffield nearby and the next morning it was a short bus ride to Chatsworth!!
It was all decorated for Christmas.
The large hall leading was gorgeous! Here's the beautiful ceiling.
This is the room you see Lizzy walk through when they first get to Darcy's house! Here I am wondering where Mr. Darcy is :(
Not under the Christmas tree!
They had some fun period costumes and wigs for kids at the top of the stairs. We tried some stuff on. The old people thought we were adorable!!
Lovely dining room
We walked through the amazing room of sculptures that Lizzy did!! If only they'd had the fake bust of Darcy!!
Here are the ones they actually had--lots seen from the movie!!!
I loved this big sweet guy!!
We got our first mince pies with mulled wine. Sooo good!!
It was pretty wet but we loved all the gardens!
C'mon! Who WOULDN'T go looking for that face!!!
Les Miserables
25 November 09
Stephanie and I went to go see Les Miserables!! We went around earlier in the day to a few ticket places to compare prices and ended up getting them early rather than waiting. It wouldn't have been a big deal as there were pleanty of other good nosebleed seats, but I'm glad we were able to just go.
It was amazing! Everyone had an incredible voice, especially Jean Valjean, the little Colette, and Fantine. Wow!! "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Bring Him Home" were seriously incredible!! I cried soo much!
Stephanie and I went to go see Les Miserables!! We went around earlier in the day to a few ticket places to compare prices and ended up getting them early rather than waiting. It wouldn't have been a big deal as there were pleanty of other good nosebleed seats, but I'm glad we were able to just go.
It was amazing! Everyone had an incredible voice, especially Jean Valjean, the little Colette, and Fantine. Wow!! "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Bring Him Home" were seriously incredible!! I cried soo much!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Blenheim Palace
Friday, 6 November 2009
So I forgot that after our trip to Bath and Stratford, on our way home we stopped at Blenheim Palace--the place where Winston Churchill was born and the Dukes of Marlborough have lived.
It is huge huge huge and incredibly beautiful--thanks in part to all one of the Dukes having married a Vanderbilt...!
So I forgot that after our trip to Bath and Stratford, on our way home we stopped at Blenheim Palace--the place where Winston Churchill was born and the Dukes of Marlborough have lived.
It is huge huge huge and incredibly beautiful--thanks in part to all one of the Dukes having married a Vanderbilt...!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Earl's Court Talent Show and Hair Dying Party!
Megan, Liz, and I had a hair dying party...with some onlookers ;)
Here Liz and Megan are working on mine. Megan's is now red/purple and Liz's is a darker blonde. A tradition in the making!
Here Liz and Megan are working on mine. Megan's is now red/purple and Liz's is a darker blonde. A tradition in the making!
What's more fun than a trip to the...Cemetary!
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Since Stephanie is part communist at heart she had wanted to see Marx's grave at Highgate Cemetary. So she dragged me out there the other day in the cold drizzly mud. For the cemetary that serves as the final resting place of the father of communism, we thought it was a little ridiculous that we had to pay 3 pounds to get in!!!
It was muddy and extremely overgrown with tiny mud paths we had to 'vigilante bushwack' through, but we made it around to see a lot of cool people's graves: Marx, George Eliot, her lover, Virginia Woolf's dad, Sidney Nolan, and plenty more.
I said Marx's head looked like Santa, so here I am giving "sitting on his lap" and giving him my capitalist Christmas list! :D
Since Stephanie is part communist at heart she had wanted to see Marx's grave at Highgate Cemetary. So she dragged me out there the other day in the cold drizzly mud. For the cemetary that serves as the final resting place of the father of communism, we thought it was a little ridiculous that we had to pay 3 pounds to get in!!!
It was muddy and extremely overgrown with tiny mud paths we had to 'vigilante bushwack' through, but we made it around to see a lot of cool people's graves: Marx, George Eliot, her lover, Virginia Woolf's dad, Sidney Nolan, and plenty more.
I said Marx's head looked like Santa, so here I am giving "sitting on his lap" and giving him my capitalist Christmas list! :D
The Royal Ballet!!!!
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Stephanie and I fell in love with this picture when we saw it at a Tube station.
So we decided we had to see this beautiful man leap.
We finally ordered tickets and got a great deal - 10 pounds!! Our seats looked pretty decent too! And it was perfect since he's not in everything, but we found him in The Sleeping Beauty - more perfect because I wanted to see something classic.
We had class all day with Deacon Duncan going around to various religious places, blah blah blah, came home and got ready. We looked adorable, by the way!
The Royal Opera House is really beautiful!
"Hey, there's the band!" Name that quote!
Our seats did turn out to be really great. We were off to the side, but had a great balcony to lean over and could see almost everything except the nearest corner and bits of the very back. Luckily not much went on there.
I loved the Violet Fairy. The Princess was pretty good, too. She and another amazing guy had one "oops" each but everyone was incredible and so expressive!! I especially loved the dressed-up couples at the party at the end: the blue bird couple, an amazing group of 3, a Red Riding Hood and wolf, and an adorable cat pair--the boy always trying to look up the girl's tootoo! It was soooo cute!
And Sergei Polunin...he was BRILLIANT!!!!!
We had such a great time! The costumes were beautiful, the music was awesome, and everyone put in 110%!! We were beaming!
Stephanie and I fell in love with this picture when we saw it at a Tube station.
So we decided we had to see this beautiful man leap.We finally ordered tickets and got a great deal - 10 pounds!! Our seats looked pretty decent too! And it was perfect since he's not in everything, but we found him in The Sleeping Beauty - more perfect because I wanted to see something classic.
We had class all day with Deacon Duncan going around to various religious places, blah blah blah, came home and got ready. We looked adorable, by the way!
The Royal Opera House is really beautiful!
"Hey, there's the band!" Name that quote!
Our seats did turn out to be really great. We were off to the side, but had a great balcony to lean over and could see almost everything except the nearest corner and bits of the very back. Luckily not much went on there.
I loved the Violet Fairy. The Princess was pretty good, too. She and another amazing guy had one "oops" each but everyone was incredible and so expressive!! I especially loved the dressed-up couples at the party at the end: the blue bird couple, an amazing group of 3, a Red Riding Hood and wolf, and an adorable cat pair--the boy always trying to look up the girl's tootoo! It was soooo cute!
And Sergei Polunin...he was BRILLIANT!!!!!
We had such a great time! The costumes were beautiful, the music was awesome, and everyone put in 110%!! We were beaming!
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