Day 53: Monday
We tried to wake up early today, but we were surprisingly tired, so we didn’t get up until around 9:30am. Then we had toast for breakfast again and decided what to do for the rest of the day. We walked to the high street to use the internet at the libraries, but there was a line, so we walked around Broadstone to try to find postcards. We passed some people standing at the end of their driveway and they had a kitty, so I stopped to pet him. His name was George and they told me “he’s a big softy, that one.” Eventually we returned to the library and only had to wait a short while before a computer opened up. With only a half hour, I was franticly trying to fit everything in. I went through my notifications, and not much happened, and I read through my messages. I had just enough time to finish everything, and then I got off because people were waiting. It was just enough time to tease me but not allow me to be satisfied. Afterwards we grabbed a sausage roll and headed home where we helped make lunch. We had cheese sandwiches again and pate sandwiches with salad and yogurt. After lunch we wrote a couple postcards and got ready to head to Badbury rings. I had heard about them many times from Elli, so I was excited to finally see them. They date to pre-Roman times, and now it’s basically a ring of hills around some woods where a town used to be. They built the hills as a defense against their town to wear the enemy out climbing up and down all of the hills. Even thousands of years later, it would still be exhausting to run up and down them, so I was impressed. We walked around the rings twice, wandered through the middle, and took lots of pictures. The bugs were horrible though. After about an hour we went back home. I was exhausted and took a nap while Elli ran up to the post office. When I woke up it was time for dinner, which was essentially the same as yesterday, only with marrow. It was so much food and I struggled to get through it. Dessert was delicious, but I was too full to fully enjoy it. And then I was given more. I thought I was going to explode. After dinner I wrote a little bit of my proposal, which is an interesting endeavor without the internet. Then we watched a tv show about some detectives which was pretty funny, and planned out going to Corfe Castle tomorrow. I’m trying to finish my draft of my paper so I can work on revising it over the next couple days before I have to turn it in next time I have internet. Only two more days in Broadstone, and it’s on to London where I get to see KRISTAAAAA!!!
