Lord's Tour

Today, as part of my Sport in the United Kingdom class, I had the pleasure of visiting Lord's Cricket Grounds. This is home to the Marylebone Cricket Club, an exclusive club in London. Apparently, in order to become a member, you must apply at age 16 & wait 20 years!! I'm not sure I'm ready to plan my life out 20 years... However, membership into this exclusive club (where Princess Kate plays royal tennis - not normal tennis!) is around 600 pounds a year - or like $1,000. It's not to terribly expensive, as clubs go, but is incredibly exclusive. 

So today, we went on a tour of these hallowed grounds, where the English cricket team plays, as well as a local club team. Our tour guides was not the best... but he tried! I learned a bit so I'll share with you some of it but not too much. As Americans, we don't really understand cricket so me talking about it aimlessly for pages would bore you. I'll spare you. If you want to learn more, check out www.lords.org. 

Here's a statute of a little boy playing

Your panorama for the day! The spot directly across is the media area. The arena seats about 

The media center. The look of it is in huge contrast to the area where the lounge is. The lounge looks very traditional, while the media center looks incredibly modern!

So blessed to have one of my favorite people in this class with me! Side note - we are not actually on the field :(

The media center was really cool looking. But super bright, as it faces the sunlight directly.

Media center. The Carrier Dome could learn a lesson from this space! 

Also, Baker Street - your underground station is super cute. 

Another view from the media center. In the left hand corner, that's our cute little, old man tour guide. 

All in all, it was pretty cool to see. Honestly, I will never understand rugby. Not a chance in the world. We just don't have enough of it in America. I'm not exposed to it enough & watching a game takes forever. Games can sometimes take 5 days - I don't have time for that!!! But they have invented a new version, which can take a night sometimes! I guess that's more my style but the game has never really interested me - probably because I don't comprehend it! Oh well... You live and learn.

Other than that, I went to the gym, class, & did homework today. Thrilling day in the life of a study abroad student, right? I'm off to do MORE homework now - midterms are next week so I'm trying to prepare as best I can before the weekend, as we are off to Dublin. (!!!!). 

Hope you all had a great Monday!