Football game!!! :)

Well it has been a fun couple of days! :) I got a message from Meghan saying let's go take crazy night pictures!! I took this as the time to make up for the pictures we wanted to take on my birthday, so I dressed up with my Buffalo Sabres cape! Jen came with us and we went to the playground across from our house.  Meghan went on the swings and I joined her.  Jen didn't wear the proper foot attire for such mucky ground, so she just hung out over by the one climbing thing.  Soon I was climbing on top of some logs and Meghan started taking pictures!! This is my favorite one.  We played around some more and then headed back in when it started to rain.  On the walk back, Meghan told me that I should use my cape to protect me from the rain! I did that, and it looked like a veil.  Meghan and I started cracking up and I asked her to walk me down the aisle.  :-P  We're just silly.

Saturday morning, I woke up early to go to the market with Meghan.  We went into town and went into Unbox, which is a quirky knick knack shop. Meghan showed me this old medieval knight sculpture.  We then walked down to the market, and it was all decorated for Christmas :) I bought Hugh Laurie's CD, some Christmas presents for people, and some delicious scones.  We walked down by the river and came across this memorial for African slaves.  After that, we headed back because I had to meet up with Jen and Zhen to go to the football game! I had just enough time to put Hugh Laurie's album on my iPod and then we were off!

The bus ride there, I was watching the English countryside go by while listening to Hugh Laurie sing Blues.  It was strange...but still somehow worked.  We got to the Wigan stadium and made our way over to the turnstile.  It was all automatic but I didn't see where you put the ticket in so I asked one of the security guards about it. He showed me were to scan it and then once I did was yelling at me to go through! It was really funny :-P I'm pretty sure it was timed or something.  So we finally got inside and found our seats.  The field was as large as I thought it would be, but the actual stadium was really small!  We went to go get food (you could either have a hot dog or a pie), and I got a meat and potato pie and some tea.  We watched the end of the Newcastle vs. Chelsea game on the TVs and then it was time to head back out for the game.

I love watching football :) It's a fast-paced game and the clock doesn't stop until half time and then the end of the game.  Arsenal was the visitor and their fans were on their feet and cheering the entire game! They were singing songs and chanting. The Wigan fans had a tiny corner that would occasionally be vocal...but they were easily drowned out by the Arsenal fans.  Arsenal was outplaying Wigan for the majority of the game and soundly kicked their butts 4-0.  We ran back to the bus and headed for home.  I went over to Meghan's for soup and then went back to my room and had an early night.

Today, Meghan and I went to the Learning Zone. I was able to outline all 6 of my test questions in 4 hours so now it's just a matter of hammering them out.  Also, Jen booked plane tickets for her and her sister Janet to come visit me for New Years!!! Haha we were talking about how when we hug at the airport, we'll actually just be saying "see you in 2 weeks!"  I really wish Meghan could come but it would be really expensive and she doesn't have that long before she has to fly back out here for next term.