Saturday, 07 November 2009

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  And finally what you have waited for.....

  Well I have finally realized that I have not posted the pictures from my sister and I's trip to London and Bath England this past September! We had a wonderful time touring with Jennie Chancey and all of our new friends from the Sense and Sensibility patterns forum. Jennie has great patterns and we loved getting to meet her! I have told you all before that we go and help out Jennie's mom Mrs. Need quite a lot since she lives in West Virginia only 2 hours from us. So we wanted to meet the daughtar we had practically met on the internet and talked to her mom, but not her yet. we also were quite interested in studying antique clothing and going to the Jane Austen festival! It was a dream and I still can't belive it really happened! So here is the story of my adventures with my best friend Beth my sister in England.

  

  We were picked up in the London airport by our tour guide named Nigel! Yes Nigel! He had a great accent and was very wonderful at telling all of London's history on our tour we took around the city in our bus excuse me I mean Coach!

  Then we stopped off at the hotel to get all of bags and stuff in our rooms. We were a group of 25 so here is all of us in the hotel!

  

  You can see Beth next to me in the blue scarf, she has red hair and I have brown hair. My new best friend Ana is right there in the front with the tan bag. I had not met her yet here! But she is such a dear and we call each other at least once a week if possible now! She lives in Alabama.

  

  We also stopped off at Buckingham palace to take a look. We did not get tickets in time online to take a tour but this was fine for me. I was so glad to see many other things while we were there. We were in London 7 days and you can only do so much in so little time.

  

  Then we went and saw the Church called St. Pauls it was beautiful!

  Then we were aloud to have free time. So Bethany and I went with our new friend Sarah Arnold on the tube(metro in plane english right?) to the tour of London were I know its unpleasant many people were beheaded. It ended up at we ate lunch sitting next to the tours and never went inside that day because we talked for hours with Sarah getting to know her and she told us her testimony of finding Jesus. It was wonderful.

  

  Beth and I in front of the walled city and the tour of London is inside. We did don't worry go and see it and the Crown jewels our last day in London with Sarah and Ana.

  

  

  We got some sandwhiches and we were set to talk and talk. We were tired and jet lagged so this was great to take a rest and just go and tour the tour our last day instead, which was a free day so we had the time.

  

  Eating lunch in front of the tour. Beth took all pics by the way, she was there.

  

  Here she is with Sarah in front of this ginormous you know those time thingys! lol

  

  They call trash litter or rubbish in England! lol Just had to add that.

  

  

  And no this is not the London bridge! Its the other one that gets mistaken for being the London bridge. Unfortunately I did not get a pic of the London bridge. Oh well. Don't remember the name of this one either. lol

  

  This is the Big Ben and its actually not a clock, its a bell tour by the way!

  The next day was friday and we toured the Globe where shakespeare's plays were done way back when with the rest of our group. It was wonderful! On wednesday we got to see the play As You Like It. I was not permitted to take pictures unfortunately during the play. But here is the Globe tour.

  

  

  Waiting to take our tour in the museum building, no this is not the Globe itself.

  

  The door to the inside of the Globe was huge!

  

  It was huge and beautiful!

  

  

  We all walked up the stairs to get a view from the balcony where in Shakespeares time all of the richer people would have been. All of the poor people would have been standing in front of the stage. We stood for the play on wednesday night, except for Jennie and Matt and a few of the ladies in our group. Obviously Jennie being pregnant did not want to stand. But it was great for all the rest of us to be scushed! No I mean to be able to be right next to the actors, we had a great view and could hear easily. No mics mind you! All just there voices!

  

  Our tour guide was Kitty who is in the black and white and the white hat. She had a great knowledge of the times of Shakespeare and was very informative.

  

  We were right down there in front of the stairs wednesday night for the play!!

  

  My sister Bethany is in the front row with the red hair. I am in the back with the curly brown hair and blue shirt and grey sweater on the far left.

  

  They had a model of the Globe in the museum.

  

  We saw on the time line in the Shakespeare museum next to the Globe, that they had the Geneva Bible on the time line! Thought that was cool!

  

  Of course I was thrilled to see all the period instruments of the time!!!

  

   

  

  Next our group was given a costume try on of some of the clothes from their shakespeare production of one of the plays. All I know is this costume is for Cecilia, not sure what play its from. But Courtney from our group was used as the person who got to try on the clothes!!

  

  Putting on the skirt and tying it to the corset.

  

  All done!

  

  Isn't she beautiful!

  

  Lol here is some of our group trying to figure out how to get to somewhere! I am not sure which day or where we were trying to go! But the bus map was confusing! lol

  

  Still trying to figure it out! lol I think we might have been trying to go to a market that day.

  

   

  On sunday we were going to go to Westminster Abby for church in the morning before we went to the Tab, but we were late and could not go inside the Priest would not let us come in! But it was beautiful to look at the outside.

  We did go to Westminster Cathedral for the last 20 minutes for so of the service.

  

  

  I don't have a whole thing of that church unfortunately.

  But we did go to the whole service at the Tabernacle, it was a reformed church and everyone was so friendly and it was great! I enjoyed it and the sermon and music were so encouraging!

  

  

  

  The outside of the Tabernacle was beautiful, but I can't find a picture of the outside! This is the church Spurgeon went to so that is why it was so significant! They remodeled the inside unfortunately in the 70's!! So the outside is old, but not the inside.

  

  

  We got pictures of the group of us outside the Raphael Light exhibit. We did not want to stand in line for 3 hours to go in, so we went to get ice cream instead and then hit the London art gallery and portrait galleries.

  We also went to the Victoria and Albert Museum and that was one of the high lights for both Beth and I in London besides new friends and the London museum where we got actually look at and study antique garments that were not in cases on tables and on manicans up close. I am not aloud to post pics of those garments unfortunately for copy right reasons.

  

  Here is a beautiful regency gown that was in the V&A! Love it! the embroidery was wonderful!

  For some reason my computer is not letting me upload more pictures. I will try later to upload for clothing and more of our adventures in England. Don't worry you will get the whole story!

  God bless,

  Rebecca

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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