You Brighton up my Day!

Happy Sunday!

This morning six other girls and I went on

quite the pilgrimage

to get to our chapel for church today.

Which was fitting

since we've been reading The Canterbury Tales in class

and we had a nice visit at The Canterbury Cathedral yesterday.

To get to our ward that starts at 9 am,

we have to leave at 7:15.

We take the Tube,

switch lines,

board a train

and walk up a nice hill.

All completely worth it.

I'm so excited to be involved with this ward.

Half of our group was assigned to the Primary

and half were assigned to Young Womens.

For the next six weeks

I will be working in the Primary

of the Catford ward in Blackheath, England.

Today we had two kids in class.

I enjoyed them.

Especially when the subject of football

(soccer)

came up.

The two kids went against the teacher's opinions and proudly said,

"Liverpool is rubbish!"

One of the boys is named Malachai and he likes to draw.

He showed me some of his work.

Monsters are his favorite,

but don't worry,

"only the nice ones."

:)

This is the building we'll be meeting in!

Yesterday...

Was a great day,

and what a day it was! 

We got to go to Brighton.

We got to go the beach.

This was more of an Oregon coast beach

than a Flordia beach.

Meaning...

it was freezing!

Someone even told us that it was colder yesterday

than it was on

Christmas Day.

Yikes-a-bee.

I still put my feet (in my rainboots)

 in the water.

It was splendid.

I've decided Brighton would be

absolutely

positively

the most delightful place to visit

...

if it were warm.

We walked around,

got lunch on the pier,

and even saw a kid's parade!

While in Brighton we even got to go inside

the Brighton Royal Pavillion.

That place is

intense

to say the least!

Hey it's Kennedy, MaCall, Erin, Me, Jasmine and Mallory!

It's all oriental on the inside.

My favorite was in the great dining hall...

there's a

dragon

hanging from the ceiling

clutching a

2,000 pound

chandelier in its claws.

Wicked.

I also found a puddle to dance in.
That was enormously fun and distracting...
Ooops :)

Next it was back to the coach

and off to Canterbury.

I really quite like their cathedral there.

We even got to stay for an

Evensong service.

Those choir boys...

whew,

they can sing.

I found it all to be pretty sweet.

p.s. I'm way oh so super duper crazy excited
because
people are starting to catch on that
I love dinosaurs.
Exhibit A:

These are two dinosaurs that

Madeleine drew.

They are named Minkus

and

Reptar the 17th.

Kristen then added on

"Kelsey's love."

:)