Wishing for some colder air conditioning…or a breeze.

We left our hotel at 9 a.m. and went to Warwick castle. This castle is known as one of the best castles in England and it held to its reputation. It dated back to as far as 1365 and was still getting it done. We saw the chamber where prisoners were held for many years at a time. It was hard to get down into and Jason knocked his head on the concrete wall of course. He’s fine so no worries there. As we toured through the royal castle the wax figures seemed so real. Hannah couldn’t help herself and she just had to touch one to see if it would move. When we first entered the castle, a drunk woman greeted us at the door, pretending to be like someone from back in that day and age. We climbed to the top of the towers and took gorgeous pictures. One of the kids from another team stood at the top of the castle and screamed “It’s my money and I need it now!”

After that we headed for London and let’s just say it got heated once again. People were fighting to get to the front of the coach where it was cooler because sweat was a rolling. Eventually we ended up getting off the coach and walking along side it because the heat was unbearable. Our entire dairy group had to walk to the Underground stop and buy tickets and get on the tube in order to get to our hotel. The funny thing was that even though we had a delay in the tube to get tickets, we still managed to get to the hotel before either one of the coaches. It was quite the experience!

After unloading our luggage from the coaches, we made our way to our rooms and took a half hour break to regroup and cool down before meeting to decide where we wanted to eat dinner. We decided on a small Italian restaurant called Sopranos. It was AWESOME!!! Everybody liked their meals and enjoyed cooling off after the sweaty bus ride. We managed to grab the attention of every single waiter in the restaurant. First, Hannah attempted to order her meal in an Italian accent…..HA..yeah..not so good. Then, Jess and Hannah couldn’t finish their dinner without getting a box, which we had no way of storing. Then the waiter conned us into getting dessert….they really didn’t have to do much convincing ;) On our way out of the restaurant, all the waiters lined up to shake our hands and try to bribe us to come back tomorrow morning. After our grand dining experience, a long relaxing walk proved to be a lot of fun, filled with great photo opportunities and a good remedy for everyone’s nerves.

Jess, Kaitlyn and I had a few slight problems with our room keys but after 100 trips up and down the steps, we finally got a Very handsome part of the hotel staff to come to the rescue. He is actually standing right in front of us while we are writing this…HA Greatness!! They were all very kind (but hard to understand) and willing to help and we finally fixed the problem and were able to get in to unpack and turn the a/c on. We are all having a great time and we hope everything is going well in the states, since we aren’t there to keep everyone in line. ;) Oh, and Minnesota, I’m expecting to hear great things tomorrow about our amazing blog-tastic post’s. Alright everyone, we will talk to you in the morning.

~Jason, Kaitlyn, and Hannah