The Lake District

This weekend my friend Martin took Jay, Shep and I to his house in Kendal. It was a great weekend.

To begin, we missed our train. When we finally got on the next train it was basically a tin can on wheels.. or as Martin liked to refer to it "a rickshaw." It was a 2 1/2 hour train ride and since there had been a train accident a few weeks before the line was shut down in Lancaster so we had to take a 45 minute bus ride into Oxenholme. After dinner we went into Kendal and met up with Martin's brother and his friend Mason at a pub/club called Sphere and then went to Dickie Doodles. It was fun hanging out and on the way home we stopped at the park.

On Saturday Martin's dad took us on a car tour of the Lake District. We went to Windermere and walked around while being attacked by rather large swans. It was a nice day but it was very overcast and foggy so we didn't get the best views. However, the swans and mock swan attacks made up for it. Next we went to Grasmere where we walked along the river and then walked around William Wordsworth's daffodil garden. We also got some of the famous (and delicious) Grasmere gingerbread. We drove around more and came to another lake and walked along a trail there. The sun finally started to come out as we were driving past hundreds of sheep on our way to a bridge. Apparently the bridge we went to is the most photographed bridge in the Lake District. It was beautiful. After taking a few pictures and admiring the view we drove up to the highest pub in the Lake District. It was very windy and cold up there and it was so foggy that we couldn't see a thing. Needless to say we got hot chocolate instead of a pint. The pub concluded our little car tour of the Lakes and we headed home and hung out and watched tv while Liam, Martin's brother made us dinner. Mason and Sophie, friends of Martin and Liam joined us for dinner. It was very good. Liam made us Lasagna. After dinner we all got changed and ready for a night out in Kendal.

Saturday night the seven of us went out to Bar 99, Spoons, Sphere and Passions Night club. It was so much fun. We played "gentlemen's rules" and danced to cheesy music all night. On the way home we went to the park again and we all went for a go on the zipline. Everyone but Shep fell off. We also went on the swings, slide and the roundabout before we left. Our walk home, including the time in the park took about two hours because Martin lives outside the town center of Kendal. The walk was a lot of fun though. We talked about a lot of things and talked in different accents the whole time. We finally got in and to sleep around 4am. Everyone was too tired to do much of anything on Sunday. Liam made us some random things for lunch and then they taught me how to play cricket. I stink at it, but apparently I was ok at bowling. We played tag on the way home and watched some rugby before it was time to leave. We were exhausted on the journey back and were near lifeless when we finally got into York around 8/8:30pm. We stopped for some take away and dragged ourselves back to campus.

I cant wait to go back to the Lake District.. hopefully sometime soon!