oxford

this weekend i took a much needed break and visited one of my best friends, mel, in oxford.  she's studying at keble college this year, and so i spent the weekend running around oxford with her, taking pictures and pretending to be a college student again.

saturday, i got in around 1, so we got lunch at a local cafe and then walked around the city all afternoon.  this is the bod, or the bodleian, the really, really, really, really big library in oxford.  apparently it runs for miles, underneath the streets.  that night, we saw a really cool production of romeo and juliet that one of mel's friends was in.  it was a promenade performance, which means you mill around with the actors and a lot of scenes happen simultaneously.  it really imaginative but still a  good, coherent story.  

the next day, we walked around oxford again, visiting the oxford castle, which is really old (pre norman invasion!) and has a really great timeline in the sidewalk outside of it.

then we got ben's cookies, which make real-life american cookies (british biscuits just don't cut it after a while), with steve, the son of one of mom's really good friends from smu.  we snuck our way into christ church, where they filmed harry potter, by pretending we were students, and we took lots of pictures.

that night mel swiped some robes for me, and we had dinner in the keble dining hall.  there are three long dining tables, and you must wear your academic robe.  all the students enter and sit at the long tables, and then the professors in their full academic robes come in and sit at the high table at the head of the dining hall.  then some choir boys sang and we at dinner.  it was oh so harry potter and fabulous!

i grabbed the bus home late that night, and made it back for a very early 9:30 rehearsal of king lear.  the show is going wonderfully--i can't believe we're in our 3rd week of rehearsals!  it's going so fast!

happy thanksgiving everyone!