miss emma.

yesterday we visited westminster abbey, where all of the great english rulers and poets and church officials are memorialized/buried. it was absolutely gorgeous, and i found myself just wanting to sit in one of those chairs and stare at the architecture and take it all in. i feel some strange kind of peace in these ancient cathedrals, probably just because they are so old and so many great people have been inside them, but i really enjoy my time spent there.

(caitlin, me, macy and audrey...we all accidently wore black leather jackets yesterday. great minds think alike.)

anyway, after westminster abbey we went on a little walk in the rain and got to see where the prime minister lives and then we went to trafalgar square, and were supposed to go to the national gallery, but it was pouring rain and we were starving so we went to the borough market instead for ostrich burgers. seriously, they are so good. we walked around for a little and tried a million samples of all food divine, and then we took the tube to oxford street which has amazing shopping. unfortunately, i've been forbidden at this time to spend money on clothing, so i bought nothing and it was absolute torture because the h&m here is 2949x cuter than ours at home. anyway, this boy named calvin and i left the girls shopping because like i said before, i was real sad i could get out my visa and do damage like usual, so we took the bus back to our house. it was my first time on the bus (yes, one of those big two story red ones) and i have to say i kind of like the tube more. i really like the train system. so convenient.

when we got home, i skyped with david and woke him up. i've said it before i know but i love that i get to see the big guy every single day. even if he does have a big nasty mustache. i am so grateful for that man and the fact that even though i'm 2000 miles away, i've never felt more reassured and confident in our relationship. he is one of a kind, and i am so grateful that he is mine. anyway, excuse this sappy little interruption. i hate that i'm one of those obnoxious i'm-so-in-love blogs, but you'll have to forgive me, it's true.

so i was talking to david and then i lost track of time big time and forgot that it was friday an on fridays i am in charge of devotional, so i quickly hung up with david and ran downstairs where everyone in the program was waiting for me. super embarrassing, but oh well. and the funny thing is, i had forgotten that i had already planned devotional (assigned someone to thought, prayer, etc) so i was panicking all the way down the stairs and then i remembered that i was technically prepared, i just forgot i was. then we had dinner, and then some of the girls and i went to gelato (which is worlds better in rome, by the way), and then i came back to my bed, read some oliver, skyped with my man again and called it a night.

i think we're going to go see a show tonight, but i'm not sure. maybe go to dinner, since they don't feed us on saturdays. but today, i absolutely have to devote my time to oliver. i am supposed to be finished with him by monday, and i am only halfway done! i've been neglecting him, big time. so wish me luck as i speed through a dickens novel in one day...should be so fun.