Excitement and Sweat

Hey everybody, today was a day that was packed full! We started out our morning at 7:45 am on the coach bus heading to Stonehenge. After a lovely two hour nap we made it there and began our learning for the day. We did a roughly 45 minute audio guide tour which explained not only about the stones themselves but also the barrows and ditch around the site. It's hard to comprehend that 5000 years ago people dragged the stones that weigh 25 tons on average to this sacred site. I was excited to get in and walk among the stones but soon found out that only a few number of people are allowed to do that anymore, the British Heritage Society had to close it off in the 1970's because they realized if millions of people were trampling around the site every day it would weaken the ground around the stones and become a huge safety hazard and potentially bring the whole site crashing down. You can actually see on one of the pillars where the whole crashing down thing became a legitimate concern, there was a large concrete block place in one of the pillars to help support the structure. After a fun filled morning at Stonehenge we hopped on the bus again and drove to Bath. We did a short walking tour around the city, saw the Abbey, and were able to walk into the Assembly rooms. Not too shabby of a place for a wedding reception or party! After this we had dinner at Sally Lunns, which is the oldest house in Bath. The food was absolutely amazing, I might be a little biased but I think the salmon was the best!
After dinner is when the real fun (except not fun at all) began. Nine of us squished ourselves into an elevator and after the elevator lifted itself a foot off of the ground it clanged back down and stopped moving. We hit the open door button a few times and when that didn't work we called for help. It immediately got way too hot in the elevator and the glass began to steam up. After a tense 15 minutes the front desk informed us it would be at least 30 minutes until the engineer came. Thankfully 55 minutes after the ordeal began they managed to get us out before anyone actually passed out.