Oxford Trip

The past few days have been really busy!!! On tuesday we took a train and a few buses to Oxford. I really liked the double decker bus we went on. It had wifi! ;) When we got there, we had lunch and then met up with my dad's friend Steve. We went to his house and had dinner. I think we did other things there like play on the wii, but I was too tired so I slept for most of the time. The next day we took a bus to Headington so that Ariel could visit the school that she is probably going to. While she was at the school, I saw the house that we are going to live in in a month. It looked pretty nice. We also visited my school and met the principal. My school isn't in session right now, but it was good that we got to talk to people there. I'm really glad i got into this school (Doverbroeks) because it sounds really fun. 

After we picked up Ariel, we got on a bus to go to the city (i think). We had about 2 free hours so we decided to get off and walk around. After we got off the bus, Ariel realized that she left her bag on the bus!!! The bag had her phone, shoes and borrowed books in it!!! My dad and Ariel started chasing after the bus (which I found pointless because buses don't stop for you here and they werent going to catch it anyways!). They didn't catch the bus. So after about 5 minutes of complaining about it, we decided to call the bus station. They said that they would try to find it but probably not until tomorrow. My mom had the idea that we should call the phone and hope that some nice person would pick up and do something. So I spent 20 minutes calling the phone repeatedly. Nobody picked up. The bus station told us that the bag was most likely on bus # 219 so for half an hour we waited looking for bus #219. Finally someone picked up the phone and I told them to give the phone and bag to the bus driver and he said that he would. When bus 219 finally came, my dad ran onto the bus and asked if the bus driver had it. Well guess what?! He didn't. Yay. We just waited at a bus stop for an hour an a half for nothing! We started to walk away when suddenly another bus came and I told my dad to run and see if maybe the bus had it (cuz by then we were desperate) and thankfully it did! :) After that we went to my dad's friend's house for dinner. We had bangers and mash (in other words, disgusting sausage and mashed potatos) and I pretended to like it. They were a really nice family though even if the food wasn't great. 

We then took 2 busses, a train, and a taxi (because we couldn't walk the half a mile from the train station to our house at 1 am) and went to sleep. And this is why we are having a low key day today and doing nothing! Thanks for reading! Pip pip! Cherio! --Laurel :)