Whelp, today was the final adventure with Meghan. We decided to go to Carlisle because it was cheap and had a castle! We left around 9am this morning (after a long day prancing around Lancaster yesterday), and arrived in Carlisle around 10am. We headed out and first stopped at this gorgeous old cathedral! The grounds were beautiful and the inside was even more breathtaking. The ceiling was painted to look like a bunch of stars!! After we walked around the rest of the cathedral and the treasury we set off towards the castle. Along the way we kept smelling something delicious, but never figured out what it was! We got to the castle and went through the military museum. Unfortunately we couldn't actually go through the inside of the castle because it's not open Monday - Friday :( . But we got to go up top and walk around the upper outside part of it! The views were fantastic and we found a funny sign :).
After we roamed around the castle, we went back to the cathedral to go have lunch at the Priory kitchen. I got leek and potato soup and a smoked salmon and cheese sandwich, with tea of course! I also got a chocolate caramel shortbread and it was AMAZING! I was quite surprised how good it was, and I think Meghan thought I was a little nuts because I was rather fond of it. We continued walking around and ended up finding the indoor market. I found someone who sold treacle toffee so I bought some to take home. We also found a Waterstones and I found the Vegetarian Nosh for Students cookbook that Meghan has, which looked like it had some really good recipes in it. After walking through some more stores and taking lots of pictures, we headed back to the train station. We got back to Lancaster, and I realized it would be the last time I would actually return there. The next time I'm on a train, it's only going one-way, no return ticket to Lancaster :(. I can't believe tomorrow is my last day here! I can't believe it's already been 2 1/2 months, it feels like it's only been 3 weeks. I'm just happy that I made a few wonderful friends who I know will keep in touch.
After Meghan and I got back to Uni, Jen and I went over to hers for cheese toasties and to try the bread and butter pudding from the vegetarian cook book! It turned out to be really good! :)
Last night we also did our Christmas gift exchange between the 3 of us. I gave Meghan my travel books to London, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge and some cool Shakespeare post-it notes I found in London. I gave Jen a copy of Simon's Cat the book! Jen is giving me my present when she comes to visit for New Years, and Meghan got me the Book of (Even More) Awesome. She wrote a long note in the front, and then some notes below some of the stories in the book. I haven't read it yet, because she told me that some of them may make me cry. Oi...haha so I put a post-it on it saying don't read until the plane ride home. It'll be perfectly acceptable to be sniffling and crying on a 7 hour flight! Haha :-) Well tomorrow is going to be kind of rough, saying good bye to Meghan, but the three of us are going to hang out and have one last movie/girls night. I head out to Paris pretty early on Saturday so I'll probably update once I'm in Paris, but it might not be until I get home...Fear not though! I will tell you all about my crazy travels to Paris and Ireland :D
Hope you have a great night! <3
~Carolyn
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