(AM blog) Today is Sunday. Slept in again. Felt great! Leo and I plan on taking the weekend easy. We have a lot of weekend adventuring coming up and want to enjoy this one in Worcester. It is beautiful outside and sunny – interesting thing about the weather, apparently. According to the locals, it has been “unseasonably warm” here the past few days and it has not rained once! I like to think it is the world’s way of apologizing for our 3.5 hr Tarmac fiasco. Off to see what we’re going to get ourselves into today!
(PM blog) Guess what we did? We walked to Sainsbury’s! What is this, you ask? It is the Worcester equivalent to our WalMart. Pretty great, huh? Only – it is not as big. They still have a random selection of everything, just in smaller quantities. And it’s all kind of thrown together haphazardly. The batteries were next to the alcohol and the clothing was next to the tiki torches, which was next to all of the England flags. What?
Speaking of clothing – the majority of girls here do not dress conservatively or in neutral colors. I’ve seen some of the shortest, tightest, brightest clothing ever since being in England. Just saying.
Back to Sainsbury’s – it was in a part of Worcester we hadn’t been to before, St. Johns. Before leaving Leo assured me that he knew where he was going. Three minutes into walking he said he “has an idea of the direction we need to walk in, but not the exact directions to get there.” Which is why we ended up walking down a street that turned into a dead end. ☺ It was fun, though! Even with that short detour (which was our only one the whole walk) it only took about 30 minutes to get to the store.
Some of their food is really good, some of it I would never touch. Things I would never touch: Prawn Crisps aka Shrimp Potato Chips. (I know, what were they thinking?) However, we have noticed a few really great things.
1) Bottled water is super cheap here. LOVE IT!
2) They don’t use high fructose corn syrup. Soda is made with real sugar. Candy is made with real sugar. We checked the labels. :)
3) It’s amazing how natural everything is. Leo and I were reading the labels on the groceries we bought and we can pronounce every word on them – and they are words we’ve heard before! All of the things we bought would have an “organic” label on them in the States and we would pay a million dollars for it.
After Sainsbury’s we made lunch and watched the World Cup. I didn’t think that I would be interested in the game but being in England has put me in the soccer, excuse me – football, spirit! I was really rooting for England – Leo was into it too. It was a fun game to watch… until Germany wiped the floor with England.
As the announcer referred to it: “England’s World Cup Debacle” and that the team experienced “England’s heaviest loss in World Cup history” as they lost 4-1. We stayed here to watch it but some of the students went to the pubs – they said that everyone had cleared out of the pubs by halftime because they knew it was over and it wasn’t fun anymore. Sad! I would have liked to see them pull out a win. But enough about the World Cup.
We rented a movie on iTunes and just relaxed the rest of the evening. It was fabulous.
I think that I elaborated on all of my “things to note” so there won’t be a list in this post, but I did just remember one.
1 - They have little candies here that look exactly like a fried egg. How fun! Our candy is so boring in the US. ☺
We haven't really taken any photos the past few days because we haven't done much. And those we did take are on my camera :) Most of you have seen these already so they are for my parents! Deal with it.
This is me.
This is the beginning of The Butts - yes, that is a part of the town.
This is how big the drinks are. Though, the photo didn't really capture the size of the glass. It was HUGE!
This is a section of The Shops.
This photo was taken from the footbridge on the way to Worcester City Centre. You can see the top of the cathedral and that is the River Severn.
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