Minnie Mouse, Chesire Cat, and Robin Hood, Oh MY

I've finished my first week of medical school, and I now have a holiday weekend. It called the late August bank holiday, I'm assuming it's similar to having labor day right before the students go back to school. The internet in the flats hasn't been working for the past few days because the lovely people in the office forgot to plug the network into the surge booster and there was a fire.

This weekend I went up to Alnwick (pronounced an-ick) Castle where the first and second Harry Potter movies were filmed. We then took the Magical History tour of the castle and found out all the places that the movie was filmed and how much money they wasted on everything. Apparently they spent 2,000 pounds (about 4,000 dollars) just to bring a particular tree stump in. This was my tour guide:She was totally decked out in Grifindor garb! They also had an owl exhibit where they let you pet the owls....This is Rambo, a tropical screech owl, clearly they were catering to the harry potter fans here, but it was still pretty cool. I then went out with some friend into Newcastle, and this is what we saw...

Apparently the people of Newcastle really like to dress up. There are always hen (bachellorette) parties going on, every day of the week with the whole group wearing ridiculous clothing. We just had to stop these ladies to get a picture, and when we asked them why they were dressed up they said for fun, so naturally we are all planning to dress up at some point and go out. Any theme ideas would be welcome...it's literally like Halloween everyday here.

I'm really having a great time here, sometimes I can't actually believe that I'm in England and then I'll hear someone talk and remember. Yesterday was a really nice day, and I was actually able to go to the coast (the eastern side) and dip my feet into the North Sea it was very cold, but also a lot of fun.

Cheers!