Liverpool

We got to liverpool yesterday and had dinner at the hotel. Once again the food was just "ehhh." The hotel we are staying at is literally the "it" spot in liverpool. There was tons and tons of Hen parties, which in America are known as Bachelor/Bachelorette parties. Only over here the girls and guys have to dress up. The girl who was getting married was in a firefighter halloween costume, and the boy was in a pink wig and yellow ballerina skirt. The hotel had people running in the halls all night, and some of them pulled the fire alarm, so the alarm went off at night. Some of the people in our tour even said that the people were knocking on their doors at night. DRUNK PEOPLE.

Mom and I sat in the lobby watching some of the parties going on. We realized that girls are way more into their hair here. The have perfect haircuts and no hair goes undone when going out for a night on the town. We went to bed pretty early though because we had to be up at 6am for our tour! All of the old people in our group were commenting about how short the girls dresses were, and all I could think about is..."wow, if they could only see vegas on a friday night."

Today we went to a a few small villages and shopped and ate. There wasn't much for shopping today, because when its Sunday in England the whole country pretty much shuts down all of the stores, etc. It really is a holy day over here.

We also got to go to a Castle today. It was amazing. It was our second favorite after Warwick. This castle was huge. It was still in good condition...for the medieval days that is. It was like a maze inside, and it was pretty fun to climb all around it and explore. Mom and I took so many pictures! There were little hidden pathways all over the castle, and you best believe that we found them all! We even found the "old toilets."

Then we traveled down to the Island that Kate and William live. We got to shop in the local store, but we didn't get to see as much as we would have liked. We kept hoping to see them strolling down the street, but we were not so lucky. We kept guessing which house we thought was theirs, but once again our luck was not so good. We have a few good guesses though! We saw a huge one on the water and thats our guess ;).

We got back to the hotel early tonight and for once we didn't have an included dinner with our tour group. It was sooooo nice! Mom and I had dinner early, walked around the city, took a shower, and got ready for bed all before 7p.m. They are all just getting back from their tour now, and we have already completed our night! We are getting a little tired of sitting on a bus everywhere, so it was nice getting to walk all around the city.

On the way to dinner I spotted a man running. I pointed him out to mom and we realized that a few cops where chasing him. We got to see a real police chase in the streets of Liverpool! We don't know why he was running, but it was exciting to see. The cops were getting tired, and the man running from the cops saw that they had a back-up car, so he just stopped and the cops that were chasing him threw him on the ground. The all handcuffed him and threw him in the back of the car. Mom and I took pictures of it. It was pretty exciting cause the man running away ran right in front of us. Never saw one of those before!

Then we ate at this AMAZING Italian place for dinner. The food was soooo good, for once! Mom and I kept ordering meal after meal because we finally had our tummies full with some good food! Then we hunted down a movie theater, because we were in dyer need for some salty popcorn. There popcorn was not freshly popped, but it wasn't as greasy as our either. When you order popcorn here you get a choice of salty or sweet. They also had beer available to drink, a candy store filled from ceiling to floor, and a ben n' jerry's ice cream. So different from home!

We just got back to the hotel now and we are going to try and skype a few and watch tv. We have an early start in the morning. So far we really like Liverpool. Can't wait to see the South of Wales tomorrow.

Kayla and Sandy Ornelas