Day 12 - Capernwray (A little R&R)

May 13, 2008

We decided that today was going to be our rest/catch-up day. Our plans included resting, laundry, typing in the blog, swimming, and some pool, plus general exploration of the grounds.

Breakfast was at 7:30am and Jeremiah decided to skip it so he could sleep some more (he remembered it was hard for him 10 years ago when he was a student here to get up for it and they wouldn't let you skip it then). I, on the otherhand, wanted to eat some. So I headed to the dining hall right at 7:30 and was one of the first to get there so I grabbed some cereal, toast, fruit, and yogurt and sat down at a table with a man who looked like he was either on staff or one of the speakers here (I found out that he did some lectures on critiqing movies).

A little bit later, some other who he knew, joined us. We all talked, mainly about films, and breakfast was very enjoyable. I grabbed some extra fruit, toast, and yogurt to take with me for Jeremiah so it looked like I wa a mojor pig with all this food around me. Towards the end of the meal, I started wrapping the extra food in napkins and the guy sitting across from me kept looking at me strangely. I just kept doing what I was doing and laughing in my head. Afterwards, I went back to our room and laid down for a bit more (7:30am was really early for me as well but I wanted to make sure to get some food). After a bit we got up and got ready for the day doing miscellaneous things and getting our laundry ready.

Jeremiah ate his food late and decided to skip lunch as well. I went back to the dining hall for "Brown Bowl Surpise" (I think that's what they called it). It was a bread bowl (not like bread I've had at home but I really like it; it was very shallow and just had some sides to it - not like a sourdough bread bowl or anything like that). There was ground meat with some vegatbles in another bowl that you scooped into your bread bowl and some salad. It was all pretty good.

I was the first one at my table (I'm starting to realize that they aren't very punctual around here) and some others joined me; among them was the guy from breakfast who was looking at me strangely. I thought it was funny again that here I was alone and I would mention my husband and that he was here 10 years ago but that no one has really see him - mystery man! Everyone at the table was really nice and we had some good conversation. (They sure do eat fast over here; even the Americans and Canadians - I wonder if they are just on a short time table or really wanted to get out to enjoy their free time; I was barely half-way through my meal when they were all on to dessert!)

After lunch, I came to the computer lab to type but it didn't open for another 15 minutes. So I decided I would walk around and try to find Jeremiah who had been doing our laundry during lunch. I walked all over the place and couldn't find him. It was now only a few minutes until 2pm so I thought I would try one last time to see if he was in the Laundry room before I headed back to the computer room and he was there!

He had just switched all of our clothes into the dryers and it was a good thing he started this during lunch as right afterwards, there were quite a few students who were starting theirs. He then walked me to the computer room and I have been in here typing ever since.

We are planning on going in to town to the Sizzle In for pizza (apparently the best pizza in town) and then I'm not sure what else we are going to do. We are thinking of trying to go to the later lecture tonight as Sue Gilmore (one of Debbie's old roommates) is speaking tonight (I checked the schedule today and found out that if we had stayed around lst night after that one lecture that I fell asleep through, we would have heard her speak last night).

While I have been in here, Jeremiah has been finishing up our laundry and looking at books on what we should do tomorrow in the Lake District area. Well, I'm not sure if I will be able to write anything tomorrow as we will be off the grounds for the majority of the day, I think, and the lab is only open for limited hours, but I will try to find the Internet again as soon as possible.

I did write on Day 8 and Day 9 today, so check out those posts if you haven't already.

On Thursday, we are headed to Scotland!

Lots of Love and Thanks for all the comments - we love reading them!
Sara & Jeremiah