Bathing in Bath

As nice as London was, we wanted to spend a day out in the country here. We decided to go to Bath. The train was very expensive (but not a surprise anymore), but it only took us about an hour to get there.
Bath was a super adorable town that had several notable things about it, but it was a tradidional, miserable summer day in England. It rained all day. Sometimes it was raining quite hard. After a quick walking tour in the rain, we decided to go to the thermal spa. It was next to an old Roman bath that is a museum, but it was actually a luxury spa. It was quite decidant. It was a bothrobe and slippers kind of place. Anyway, we went for the two hour treatment and soaked in the mineral bath and on the rooftop pool. There was also a fun sauna room with four different scents and a food bath area. The water was about 30 C which was nice, but you could stand to stay in it for two hours.

We headed out of the spa and jumped on a tour to Stonehenge that we had booked. It was funny. We were in a little purple minibus with a really funny driver. There actually isn't a ton to see besides countryside between stonehenge and bath, but our driver pointed out everything. He would always say things like "Ok Guys, if you look on your left you will see a funny house. It looks like a castle, but it is a hotel. Again Guys, on your left." Then becuase it was so cloudy we couldn't see one of the attractions (a calk carving on the hillside) he would say "OK Guys, what you would be seeing right now to your left is a gigantic carving into the natural chalk, but as you can see Guys, it is too cloudy. OK Guys, you would see it right throught the break in those trees, right there, but it is too cloudy Guys. I have a picture I can show you later of what it would look like Guys."

Stonehenge was very very cold and very very cool. We had heard lots of times how it is a bit disapointing, but we went into it with that attitude and it was much cooler than we expected. Enjoy the pics. We were soaking wet by the time we headed back to the bus. We got some hot chocolate and enjoyed hearing about the same attractions on the way back.

We went shoping in bath before we left.

When we got back to Reading we met J and went to hang out with her friends at the Pub. Then we went a Thai place with them for dinner. We didn't get home until about 11pm. Apparently that is what everyone does here every night. It is very different for us. We had a blast with J's friends. They all work for Microsoft and are very fun. We even got a new copy of Windows 7, not for release until October, but apparently amazing. I can't wait to get it on my computer and enjoy the sneak peak.