Monday, March 7, 2011

Hello blogging world!!

Well...where to start. First of all I am very new at this blogging thing so I don't really know what I'm doing but hopefully I'll figure it out soon. But I wanted to start this blog to finish out this semester...possibly my last one at BYU-Idaho...and then have it and update it all about my trip to Europe coming up soon!!! I'm going through BYU-Idaho with a big group of students, it's called the British Literary Tour and we go all over. I'm so very excited and leave on May 2nd!!!! A little bit about where we'll be going....
We fly from Salt Lake to Dublin then spend two days in Galway, Ireland. We go to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, Connemara and Inishmore then go to Drumcliff and Sligo and drive to Dublin. In Holyhead (I think Ireland still) we go to Trinity College, Dublin Writers Museum. Then we make our way to Bradford (now in England I believe) and go to Snowdonia, Conwy, Liverpool's Merseyside Museum, go to Sacrament meeting there, then go to Keighley, Skipton, the Bronte Parsonage (the house of Emily and Charlotte when they lived with their father) and the moors right by the house (which I have heard are amazing!) Then still in Bradford we go to Dove Cottage, Rydal Mount, Grasmere, Hilltop Farm, Hawkshead. Then we go to Stratford, England (which Stratford Upon Avon is the birthplace of Shakespeare!) and go to York, the Sherwood Forest (the forest in Robin Hood) and the Royal Shakespeare Company. We also go to Oxford (which a lot of scenes for Harry Potter movies were shot there...like the library at Hogswarts is the Oxford library), Blenheim Palace, Bourton on the Water, Hidcote Manor, Warwick Medieval Centre, Kenilworth Castle and another Shakespeare play.  Then we go to the Open Market and Shakespeare Properties. Then we spend two days in Bath. We go to Benbow Farm, Gadfield Elm Chapel, Tintern Abbey, Bath, then go to Sacrament meeting, Wells and Glastonbury. Then two days in Southampton. We go to Lyme Regis, Dorchester, Stinsford, Bockhampton, Bere Regis, Stonehenge, Wilton House, Old Sarum, and Salisbury. Then we have three days in London!!!! We go to Winchester, Jane Austen House in Chawton, West End Theatre, Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathederal, British Library, Globe Theatre, British Museum, National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Theatre. And I belive while we are in London each of the three nights or maybe only two we go to a play. So I think I'll be seeing Wicked and Phantom of the Opera!!!! Then we take the Eurostar to Paris (which is a train that goes under the channels) and spend five days in Paris!!!!!!! OH I'M SO EXCITED! So in Paris we go to Champs-Elysees Montmartre, Sacrament meeting, Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, Seine Cruise, Musee du Lourve, Arc de Triomphe, Monte Cristo, Musee d'Orsay, Musee Rodin, Victor Hugo House, Chateau de Versailles, Trocadero and finally the Eiffel Tower!!! And then we fly from Paris back to Salt Lake. So obviously it's going to be AMAZING! And even though I don't know what half of these places really are I will soon and I guess you will too if you continue to read the Happy Trails of Hayley...I'll keep you updated on my traveling adventures!!
Well that will do it for this post but hopefully that gives you a little sense of what I'll be doing in less than two months. And I'll try to write a post about what's been going on in my life for the past while asap as possible and more of whats to come. Have a great day!!!!

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