oh, just another palace

ahhh freedom. today is the first day we've had that has been unplanned, and i'm now relaxing at rebecca's stealing her wireless internet.

last night half of the group went into oxford to a formal hall for burn's day at regent's park college, so the other half of us played games and had wine at my house. lee was so super and offered us pizza and some of her own wine. she's such a sweetheart. the rest of the group came after the formal and we attempted to watch a movie. a few of us decided that we would plan a trip into woodstock for today, and 9 of us ended up going!

it was a crazy ride on the double decker bus (which felt like a rollercoaster actually) to woodstock, the home of blenheim palace in which winston churchill grew up. we asked a few locals to show us the secret non-paying way into the grounds and spent the afternoon walking around the most beautiful grounds. we weren't able to go into the palace or see the palace gardens, but only go around the palace itself. still, though, the sight was incredible. after a long day of walking (probably about 4 hours) i'm pretty tired though.

tommorow there is a morning service at the baptist church and then we have the rest of the day off to read some of the plays we need to have read for monday's classes. it should be a good day to catch up with my homework and emails at least.

cheers.