Day Sixteen

Thursday:
Today was an all travel day to make up for Saturday's mishap. We met at eight, although Dr. Mitchell didn't show up with the van until 8:45. He's not really a good driver in the States, and driving a stick and being on the other side of the road led to a pretty terrifying experience today. We did a lot of praying, had a few near collisions, but I'm back and no worse for the wear.
We got to visit Warwick Castle, which was really cool. They had a wax museum and I got pretty confused trying to figure out if the figures were real or not. I thought one lady was just a wax figure until she moved and scared me to death.
One of the caretakers of the castle was really friendly and told Amy and I all kinds of neat facts. He tried to make a joke about Indiana Jones being from Indiana, but we didn't really get it. British humor just isn't the same.
I climbed several more towers today, although not as scary as Magdelen Tower. But I was proud of myself. We also got to see a billion peacocks up close. The garden was full of them.
After Warwick, we drove to Stratford-Upon-Avon. We checked out Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried before heading to the theater. Romeo and Juliet was playing, but it was a modernized version. However, the dialogue was the same and I ended up falling asleep a couple of times. Cut me some slack, the play was over three hours long.
We experienced high tea for supper. I actually just had coffee and a scone and then we randomly decided to split three milkshakes between five of us. However, British milkshakes are basically flavored milk, so it wasn't all that satisfying.
Now we're back home and I'm trying to motivate myself to finish my paper. We'll see about that.