Day 8...The final Tour

Today we made our final tour. We traveled to the town of Oxford. This town is known for the universities that are located there. Several US "importants" have attended school there. Bill and Chelsea Clinton just to name two. We took the city bus tour and we were able to see the awesome old buildings that house these colleges. These buildings were built in the 12th, 13th and 14th century. They are still beautiful and functional today. One fact that really impressed me was the stacks for one library runs 2 miles under the streets. Can you imagine checking out one of their books!

The Harry Potter movies were filmed at Christ's Church here in Oxford. The old building is truly a beautiful old building. The whole town looks like Harry Potter. Lewis Carrol, Jane Austin, A.A. Milne, JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis all were students and or professors here.

While we were eating lunch we were "entertained" by a truly arrogant student. He must have thought he was the most learned person in the whole of the town. He just kept talking about how stupid everyone else was.

After lunch we went to Blackwell Bookstore. In this bookstore there were new books as well as some real neat used books. There are over 2 1/2 miles of stacks in this bookstore. We looked for a while and bought a few treasures.

We retraced our steps back to the bus stop and missed the train. The engineer said oh, well and left without us. Not to worry there was another train coming in about 20 minutes. We loaded then, got off at Reading to change trains and traveled back to the "little lonely train station at Blackwater". We named this station that because there is not a ticket office there and the kisock is not always working. After arriving at Blackwater we took a cab on to the house to pack and have a bit of supper.

We are now packed and ready to go to bed. We will have to leave at 6am in order to get through customs at the airport. We should arrive at Houston about 12:30 pm.

We have had a wonderful time and it has not cost and arm and leg, only an arm, but it has been worth every sore muscle in our legs. Maybe Beth's broken toe has not been permanently damaged.

Another year, another "sister trip". Who knows where we might go next year. We have talked about going to Florida, Georgia and Virginia. It all depends on what is happening in our lives.