my brother came for a week to see me and i had it all planned out, as usual, based on my past tour-guiding experiences with mom, dad, in-laws, and friends.
but i didn't know that jared had the same interest in old churches and museums that i did -- get in, get a photo, get the key facts, get out, get on with it. it was fantastic.
so, after what i thought would be a full day of sightseeing, we found ourselves with still an hour or two of daylight with no plans each afternoon. so we "winged it."
i am not good at winging it.
on wednesday we finished our touring and i remembered a local castle nearby. unfortunately i punched in the wrong address on the GPS so the mini was up to its rusty undercarriage in slush before we found the right route. just as we got a great parking space and it began to snow, we saw the sign "closed on tuesday-wednesday, december 1 to january 31." DaMMIT!
oh, well. it was a lovely drive.
i thought we might be able to catch the last tour at the Greene King Brewery, but we got there at 3 p.m. the last tour was at 2. DaMMIT!
so we came home with plans to get a pint at the pub before dinner. but it was the empty hour -- the time between 2:30 and 5 p.m. that pubs close for their own landlord's lunch break. no pubs, no castles, no fun.
on thursday we saw ely cathedral and toured all of cambridge and ate lunch, and still had hours of daylight! so i knew of a local manor house that was a national trust property. they had to be open. nope. closed january. all of january. DaMMIT!
on friday we went to London. i knew it would be open. except for the London Eye ferris wheel. closed the middle two weeks of January for annual maintenance. this is getting bad.
"at least i got to see the outside of a lot of things," said jared.
very funny.
i'm fired.
(but we really did have an awesome time. as if there was any doubt! :O)
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