6/19

Today was a resting day. Em & I came back after breakfast (we get up at 6:30 with Max for breakfast each morning) and I took a nap. She played on the computer. I got up at like 9:30, and we decided to go to a model village in Bourton-on-the-Water, a village about 30 minutes away. It was cute, but not really worth the admission fee. We walked along the water for a bit, and watched the ducks. Lots of ducks. Attack ducks. We got some lunch at a little cafe. We had bacon & "mature cheddar" sandwiches. They were sooooo good. The bacon here isn't like the bacon at home. It seems rather like ham that has been cured to taste like bacon. Delicious, whatever it is. I also had some of the lovely soda-like lemonade that I adore here.

We saved the crusts to take out and feed the ducks. It started with just a couple of ducks. Then, through duck telepathy, all of the ducks on the water knew we were there with food. Soon, we were surrounded by ducks. And I mean surrounded. They hopped out of the water, and were quacking around our legs. A man who had been eating an ice cream cone gave us the last bits of his cone to feed them, too. Then, a poor lady with a brand new bag of fish & chips lost the bottom of her bag, and they all fell on the ground. So, she said we could feed them to the ducks. We fed the ducks for a good 20 minutes.

Amazingly, we found our car and made it out of the village unscathed (the little roads are stressful). We came back to the hotel and napped. Em (who claimed she wasn't tired) had to be awakened a couple of hours later, so we could get downtown before all of the restaurants closed. Things close really early here. Like, 5:30 - 6 kind of early. So, we walked downtown, had some dinner, and walked back. I had a lovely bath in our super-deep bathtub, and now we're getting ready for bed.

Big weekend coming up, so I might not be able to update until Sunday or Monday.