Aquae Sulis.

This weekend, we went to Bath. Apparently a lot of people go there for the Jane Austen realm of things. But, I've never really been all that into Jane Austen stuff, so when I heard that there was some Roman stuff going on up there, we were like, yes. Let's do that. Remember how we love old stuff? Well we were about to see the oldest stuff we've ever seen, we're talking like 2000 years old stuff. That is pretty dope, I think. Anyway, nothing really happened on our day trip, other than what you will see in the pictures. OH, except that this one lady showed up to the museum with her bathing suit thinking she could swim in the bath. and I was like WHAT it is lined with 2000 year old lead [can anybody say, death wish?] and it hasn't been covered so it's all algaed out and nasty, YOU CRAZY.
Oh and on the way there we got in a fight about the map and the directions. Which seems pretty cliche, right? Anyway, enjoy the pictures.

For those of you who don't much about the city of Bath, click here.

If you want to know more about the actual BATH in Bath, click here.

Cause I'm not very good at writing things that are supposed to be educational.

a city view. it's pretty gorgeous.

the inside of the bath museum

this is an observation deck they built around 1890 when they opened the Bath House to the public

me learnin some stuff.

this is the hot spring that fed the water into all the other baths in the bath house

learnin stuff about this model of the early bath house

Some of the ruins of the Temple

The of head of the Sulis Minerva statue that was once inside the temple

More of the hot spring

kickin it by the great bath.

Some gardens or whatever.

we went to London.

This past weekend we went to London. 

London is a pretty cool city. I don't want to marry it or anything like that. But I would like hang out with it as friends now and then.The city of London was romanticized via countless Disney movies and Austin Powers movies that I watched countless times so I had pretty high expectations that were not met per se, but it was still fun, and there is a lot of history there. We both enjoy history, and we like to find the oldest buildings possible. If we see a building that was built in like, 1901, we're like "LAME!"  But yeah so it was cool and stuff, but I am glad we live in the quiet beautiful countryside.


Anyway, before I let the pictures do all the work of telling you about our trip. I just wanted to talk about body odor. On Saturday, literally every time were were around a crowd of people, there was a B.O. smell. There wasn't any particular person that was always around us. But it was always THERE. I got so frustrated with it that at one point during our visit to Madame Tussauds wax museum I very obviously sniffed my own armpit (no pretending to stretch while turning your head into your armpit) just to make sure that it wasn't me and loudly declared "IT IS NOT ME!" and then proceeded to sniff Taylor's armpits because he was just as much a suspect as I. But we were both in the clear as we had deodorized ourselves before leaving the hotel in the morning. It then became clear to me that it was just a LOT of people had HORRIBLE B.O., and everyone was always lifting their arms for whatever reason, and releasing their personal stench. I started to wonder so many things, WHY? Is there no deodorant available? Was there a surge of smelly french or german tourists? Was I being punished for something? What there some kind of strike going on between the deodorant companies and the people of London? I went into a local "Boots" pharmacy and beauty store to see, and there was deodorant available at a reasonable price. Why there were so many smelly people? I may never know. But it got worse. The worst, most traumatic event during our trip was when we were on the tube (subway train for those of you who are not as culturally advanced) and it was really crowded so I was holding onto Taylor when a man stepped next to us and grabbed the bar and his OPEN SMELLY ARMPIT WAS RIGHT IN MY FACE!!  and I had to bury my face in Taylor's chest and try to suffocate myself to get away from the perpetual B.O.. After we got off I told him about it and he of course, was not in the line of stench since he is tall and he thought I was just trying to be cute. Yeah right.


Anyway, we took a 2 hour open top bus tour around the city. But our camera died so they are from our phones, but they still turned out okay. So here are some pictures from that.

                                                                 Didcot Railway Station - departure

 

Paddington Station - arrival

                                                     HEY KIDS! Look there's Big Ben!

BIG BEN, PARLIAMENT.

Looks real.

fat me and phat John Wayne.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm