Laid Back Weekend

Let's start with where I left off on Thursday. After a nice 3.5 mile run home from work, I then headed straight to field hockey practice. It is a very interesting sport to play. During the 2 hour practice, we did warm ups, passing, shooting and defensive drills, and then played a short game. Let's just say this sport didn't come as natural to me as most others have. It really is a difficult sport to describe, but I would say its got the positions of soccer, uses a ball the texture of a golf ball but size of a tennis ball (or a little bigger), and then there was the stick. It has a small curved end and unlike in american hockey where you can use both sides of the stick to hit, in field hockey you only use one side...which is the tricky part. I think it might get better with more practice, but lets say I actually liked dancing on Wed. much better.

This weekend I decided to take it easy and get things done that needed to get done. Saturday involved cleaning and doing laundry, then I decided to go into town for the afternoon. This was very enjoyable as I started off at the Lincolnshire Musuem, which was all about the history of Lincoln. It showed every aspect of life, home, industrial, war, farm, etc. I will say that there were two things that really struck me as very fascinating. First of all...the military tank was invented right here in Lincoln...and they actually had one of the first ones ever made and taken into action in the museum. And second, the fact that the printing press, used world wide but mainly in England and the U.S. was built with an American Eagle on top. Following my hike around the museum, I headed towards the Cathedral and took in its ever amazing site. I made a short stop to the gift shop then headed around the town looking at shops and just taking in the sites.

Today I rode with Margaret to drop Jaime and a friend off for a hike for school. We went to Louth, a town about an hour from Lincoln and drove through the village. It was here that we saw the oldest thatched pub in Lincolnshire (we were still int he county of Lincolnshire although a different town), and then the interesting steeple which I have included pictures of. After getting home, I have started my research of trips throughout the UK. My goal is to visit the top ten sites in the Uk before I leave...I've done one (London).

Another week begins tomorrow...Cheers for now! (Also I have added pictures to one of my first post...so scroll down!)