Nov 2008

The school planned a day trip up to the Lake District which is in North West England. It is home to the tallest mountains and the largest lakes in England. Everyone told me to dress warm and prepare for the rain because it rains a lot there, but we got lucky! Although it was quite cold, we had sun most of the day and no rain! Yeah for good luck! Beatrix Potter wrote many of her children's novels while living up in the Lake District and the poet William Wordsworth also lived there. We made two stops one in Windermere and one in Ambleside. At the first stop we were able to take a trip out on a boat around the largest natural lake in England--Lake Windermere, then we had some Cornish pastries and spent quite a bit of time re-reading the tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle Duck! One of the girls from the trip decided that she did not need to follow the time restrictions....so we only had about 20 minutes of daylight left when we got to the second city. Oh well! It was still a great trip!

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