Day 28

Today was a great day! I woke up first at 5:30 because the sun was up. I thought I had slept in! The sun sets at about 10:30 and rises at about 5:30 everyday. I can’t imagine what it would be like to live here in the wintertime. We are staying in this cute little bed and breakfast and we got served a full English breakfast. Complete with blood pudding… I have tried pretty much all the food this trip, but I couldn’t try that one…

After breakfast we hiked a fell or a mountain. I don’t think you can actually call it a mountain. I would call it a large hill… The view was beautiful! We could see lakes and farms. We were so hot by the time we got to the top. We figured because we were going to be in Northern England and Scotland it would be cold. We were very wrong. It has been in the 70’s the past two days and all I brought were long sleeves and jeans. It was totally worth it though! I have pictures at the top on facebook.

For lunch we went to the Apple Pie Café in Ambleside. I have never had better Apple Pie. It was to die for. I couldn’t even get a picture of it I ate it so quickly. I also got a Cornish Pasty which is like a beef stew pastry. It was really good. For someone reason I always feel like I have to blog about food even if it something as plain as apple pie…

The rest of the day was spent at Dove Cottage. The poet laureate, William Wordsworth lived there for eight years of his life. In my English class we have been reading some of his poems and I love them all. Some of them are really well known such as “I wandered lonely as a cloud” or “Ode: Intimations of  Immortality” which is read in General Conference often.  My favorite is “We Are Seven.” I bought a book of his poetry while at Dove Cottage. It was fun to read it where he could have written it. After touring Dove Cottage we went to workshop where we got to see the first editions of his Lyrical Ballades, Frankenstein, a few books by Samuel Coleridge, and letters between various people in the Wordsworth family. Most were love letters between Wordsworth and his wife that have just been found recently. They were really beautifully written. They asked us to try and transcribe them before we got to read transcription they had done. It was so hard! It felt like indexing without spiritual gratification… After that we at dinner in Dove Cottage with recipes from Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth’s cookbook. The food was pretty bland, but it was neat to have something they actually ate. It was like a beef stew with rice. There was also boiled potatoes and carrots. For dessert we had a crème with lemons, eggs, and sugar. Not my favorite dessert I’ve had so far…

Tomorrow we head for Edinburgh! More then!