Hampstead

This morning we got to sleep in before going to Hampstead.  In my mind I was thinking it would be like 20 miles away and necessary to take a coach, but it ended up being just on the Northern line.  Our first stop was Keats house.  This is the house that he lived in with his friend Charles Brown and it's also where he met Fanny Brawne for the first time.  The house itself is way smaller than they portrayed it as in Bright Star.  I would've been extremely cramped in a duplex like this.

Aylea, Christi, Kaylee, and I in front of Keats house

From Keats house the four of us wandered through the heath up to Parliament Hill where there is a beautiful panoramic view of the city.  It reminded me of the view over the Salt Lake valley from Mrs. Lakes D floor classroom at East High.

We walked through town stopping for lunch and then proceeded to Kenwood House.  Do you recognize it?  I probably wouldn't have either if Professor Mason hadn't mentioned beforehand that it is used in Notting Hill towards the end of the movie when Julia Roberts is on her film set.  It was a nice change to see a mansion instead of a palace.  It seems more realistic that people actually lived here besides the fact there a gift shop that now resides in the middle of it.  They had samples of this divine raspberry curd, which I tried and Chrisi tried the lemon curd.  It was only £3.50 and I thought I would buy some to take home, but we decided it would add a lot of weight to my suitcase and it probably wouldn't be allowed on in my carryon so it probably wouldn't work.  That doesn't mean we left it though, we bought the lemon curd and grabbed some crackers on the way home.

(a while later) The lemon curd and crackers might become our dinner because this is what we were fed tonight.  We're not exactly sure what it was.  We think it was ham and cream cheese inside some spinach cake thing.  I miss moms cooking!