penny lane is in my ears, and in my eyes...

wow, so it has been a while since i've written in here, i know! but it's been a busy time! damon came back from snowboarding safely (well somewhat, he did injure his ribs quite badly) and since then i have just been getting ready for when my mom cam, and now she is here!
so we did some london stuff for a few days, and then set out on our easter roadtrip on friday! we went to windsor castle first, it was closed because the queen was there, but it is still beautiful from the outside! there is tonnes of funny souvenirs from the shops around there, since that's where charles and camilla will be married (near the castle anyways, there's all this controversy) So then we drove to stonehenge, which is really amazing. i think that i went there not expecting too much, but you can't help but be taken in by it.
then (still on friday, it was a long day) we drove to coventry, where damon's family lives and stayed there at his aunts for the night.
saturday morning we got up and headed to stratford-upon-avon. my second visit, but still just as wonderful and magical. i love shakespeare! (i'm such a geek!) and i got to buy all the stuff that i didn't last time, like the romeo and juliet fingerpuppets! (watch out kiddies, you're in for a treat!)
and then we drove from there to liverpool, which was quite far. we got there just in time to check into the hotel, find a pizza express for dinner, and get some sleep. sunday was the big day in liverpool. got up and went to the beatles story (sort of a beatles museum) which we didn't think would take that long....3 hours later, we were done! it was really cool, anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the beatles! there was a recreated cavern club, tonnes of memorabilia, and john lennon's white piano, it was really amazing! so then of course we shopped a bit and bought some souvenirs, then headed to the cavern quarter (a part of the city centre where the cavern club used to be, and now the rebuilt one is) we walked around and saw the club, statue of john lennon, eleanor rigby statue and the beatles store (but it was closed!)
so then on monday we needed to finish all of our beatles tour, we returned to the cavern quarter to go into the store and the cavern club! it was really cool! then we drove out into the suburbs to find the houses that john and paul grew up in, strawberry field and penny lane :) it was really surreal to think that it was really where they lived and grew up and everything.
ok so then it was the long and winding road back to london! (my first beatles pun, so sue me!) and it took a while, but it was ok.
back in london now relaxing a bit before we head out for more sightseeing and shopping tomorrow! watch out harrods, here we come!
niki :)