Monday... the first day out on our own.

So on Monday, we said goodby to V, George and Percy until next weekend and headed out on our own to start exploring. After grabbing some supplies and breakfast from Asda (the British version of Walmart), we headed out on the road down to Somerset (Hi Carol and Quillhaven family.. from Somerset, PA) where we started our day touring around Glastonbury Abbey and its surounding grounds. After looking over the Abbey we climbed up on top of the Glastonbury Tor (tor is a hill) where the wind was actually stronger and more constant than in WY...  we were impressed. The story of the Tor is that it used to be surrounded by water and was the point from which King Arthur threw his sword back to the lady of the lake. Andrea doesn't buy into it, but I think we should look around the hillside just in case.

After looking around the Abbey, scaling the Tor and back we headed off to Moretenhomatoeoadndeakkzkdy (Mortonhampstead). We got there about 8pm. After finding parking, finding the hostel, going back to the car to get our clothes for the next day and hiking back and forth between the car and the hostel about 8 times (slight exageration, but they weren't close to each other so it seems about right) we finally started to get ready to snag some dinner for ourselves before being ready to drop off to sleep. It was now about 8:50. We started looking for places to eat online and found a few local locations. We called the first one to start to get an idea of what they would be like. Well first, they didn't serve dinner that night and second, they and all other resturants in the area stopped surving dinner at 9pm. It was now about 8:55 pm. I quickly called the store that we had visited on one of our 30 trips back and forth to the car to get 2 toothbrushes (we couldn't find ours from the day before) and they also closed at 9:00 and the lady who answered the phone didn't think I would be able to get there in time before closing to get anything (also implying she wasn't willing to stay open long enough for me to accomplish the task either). After taking an inventory of our food stocks, we enjoyed a nice dinner of sliced carrots, an apple each, about 8 tea biscuits each, a tart to split, a snack size bag of sun chips each and a few glasses of tea. It wasn't hugely filling, and tea biscuits are just about tasteless (Andrea disagrees and thinks they taste like animal crackers)
... but we didn't go hungry, so there's that.

We did have a long day of driving, a full day of climbing and a bit of picture posing... so after our wonder dinner, sleep was happily accepted from the matress gods.

Sadly, all of the pictures so far had been taken in a .raw file format which means they'll have to wait till we get back to convert to .jpg in order to post online. From here on though we've been shooting the pics in .raw + .jpg, so we'll have pics to post in the following blog posts, if I can figure out how to get the blogger app to correctly post pictures.