Part 178: Ciao Bella

Hello everybody once again!!! I am very pleased to be writing another blog for Doug-a-bug. He is a bit stressed right now so i think if he wrote one it wouldn't reflect the mainly happy/confusingly weird day we had. Today was the day that we were going on our trip to Stonehenge and Bath!!! Much excitement. However our first part of the trip had a slight hiccup...the bus driver didn't have change for a 20GBP note and that was the only money we had!!! :( so we were freaked out that we wouldn't be on time to catch the bus for our tour but luckily the super nice bus driver said just to get on and not pay!! Then when we went to buy tickets for the trains the machine wouldn't take the note we put in cos it wasn't a new note so then we had to get change from some shop-like guy. But he was nice and gave us heaps of change. We easily found our pick up point, once we finally got going, and ended up waiting around for quick a while.

The bus trip to Stonehenge was filled with sleepyness for me :) i think Doug read a book. And also in addition to normal weirdness we had a Canadian as our tour guide...random. So we arrived at Stonehenge and got these audio guides and everything. We wandered around and took lots of photos and ended up listening to all the stories behind why and how Stonehenge was built, and what it was used for. Then we went and got hot chocolates but Doug randomly got coffee instead by accident which was funny because he actually couldn't decide whether he did want a hot chocolate or a coffee but yeah...anyways so we got back on the bus and were on our way to BATH!!!! :) Yay for BATH!!! But you see on this part of the trip the tour guide person decided to ramble on about random stories and information and i just wanted to sleep but it was so hard to block out her voice even with an ipod in. I am sure she had many interesting facts that would've been cool to hear but i was super tired and merely wanted to sleep.

Also i am really sorry if none of this makes sense as i am really tired after this very long day so it may all be stupid and incorrect and yeah.

Anyways so i got heaps excited when we got to Bath as thats where i really wanted to go and see. And it was awesome!! We did a tour of the main places to see on the bus when we arrived in the town. Once that was done we all climbed out and went to the Roman Baths. We wandered around with our audio guides, looking at the awesome-ness of the Roman Baths. I loved it!! It was very impressive. We even got to try some of the spring water but pretty much it was like warm water. I don't like warm water. It doesn't taste very good. So we left and i got a Pain Au Chocolat and Doug got a Double Choc Muffin. They were super yum!! :) Also in the Roman Baths we realised that there would be heaps on big painted lions all over Bath so once we were out i took photos of every single lion that we passed :) Next we walked up to the Circus and the Royal Crescent and had a bit of a look around. After a while we wandered into town again looking for the awesome Bath Store (when we went on the bus tour of the town we noticed a Bath Store that had baths and stuff in it). We found said Bath Store and went inside and laughed at the fact there was a Bath Store in Bath :D Also we noticed this really cool restaurant that we had been to in Cardiff and we were like yay!! Because we had also seen one of them in London when we had been waiting for the tour bus. Anyways we went to the toilet and then carried on our merry way with photos of us and the Bath Store sign :) So we wandered around and randomly found our way to Pulteney Bridge. On the way we also went into this book store and some books were like 2GBP so we bought them and it was fun. Anyways we found Pulteney Bridge and it was awesome and there was a little tourist shop in there and i bought presents for people so that was fun. Anyways after that we meandered around Bath looking for something to do. I decided to buy more pastries (a Pain Au Chocolat and an Apricot Crossiant) which i kept for later and then we decided to have a look in the Bath Abbey souvenir shop as well as Bath Abbey.

Soon we found ourselves with nothing much to do. So Doug began to take silly photos of us and we ended up waiting for the bus on this round about type of thing that had a gardeny thing in the middle of it (like i said...very tired...can't be blamed for not making sense). Doug continued with the silly photos while i ate my awesome Apricot Crossiant!! And when i say awesome i mean absolutely the bestest Apricot Pastry thing ever invented!!!!!! I have never tasted anything better. I could live off them!!! Seriously i am going to look the pastry place up on the internet and beg them to send me some :D

So yeah we got on the bus and i vaguely slept again which was fun. We got dropped off near the awesome pub/restaurant place and we headed there to have some dinner. It was massively packed so we decided to go to this other place called The Shakespeare. Once there Doug actually realised he had lost his wallet!! He was pretty sure it was on the bus so he called the company in hope that they would find it for him. No one answered so we decided to make our way to their address. It wasn't that hard to find so we rocked up there and found that no one was around. Doug had another look in his bag and everywhere for it but still it was nowhere to be found. So we decided to head back to the London Eye area to have dinner and came to the conclusion that we would call them tomorrow as there was nothing that could be done at that time.

So off we went to the station Embankment and went to the restaurant GIRAFFE!!!! Now Giraffe was quite busy and we had to wait on couches to be seated. While we waited we noticed little toy bendy giraffes that we awesome and all over this glass case thingy. They were so cool and i really wanted one!!! Then extremely quickly we got seats!!! Yay!! So i decided on a Chicken Snitzel Burger with Wedges and a Coke while Doug had the Peri-Peri Half Chicken again and a Coke. Now we noticed that our waitress was super awesome and was happy all the time. She even organised to get me a Giraffe that i could buy :D We decided she was so awesome that she deserved a napkin crane. We made three sizes and picked the middle one. Then we wrote a beautiful message on it for her and waited until we got the receipt to find out her name. In the meantime i ordered Apple and Berry Crumble for dessert!!! (i know what a pig, right) and also Doug felt sick which was saddening. So he didn't have dessert :( But anyways we found out that her name was Nora and we gave it to her with an awesome tip (Doug had no money so i paid for everything) and she was reading it that entire time it took us to leave. To sign it off we wrote Ciao Bella because thats really fun to say and stuff :)

After that we decided to see things in London because they were all lit up. We went and looked at the London Eye and Big Ben again. Also we went to Piccadilly Circus but we had to change lines a lot because there was a defaulty train on one of the train lines and such. Finally when we did make it to Piccadilly Circus thingy we saw this busking guy who was doing the limbo really super low!!! It was funny and i videoed him cos it was that cool. But we ran away when he said he wanted money. Good times. Then we traveled home to Sharon and Barry's house and now we are heading to bed :D though i am heading home tomorrow so i still have to pack and also there was this woman on the tour bus who kept falling asleep and snoring and it was super funny :D THE END

Doug: Nooo Chloe is leaving! Will be odd when she is in Australia. God. Sooo tired, been awake for 20 hours. I need sleep my eyes are burning looking at the screen. Goodnight. x