okay. 2nd day in the city of manchester.
Apparently David thought i was in need of a lie-in (translation: sleeping in!!!) that was lovely seeing as I really didnt have a lot of sleep the night before packing and what not. After that I had the lovely experience of my first "bacon butty." Now when I told everyone that it was my first I got looked at as if I had just said I had never taken a shower or something. A bacon butty consists of bread buttered on the inside, english bacon and tomato sauce (ketchup). not too bad. Not something I could eat everyday but not too bad. Apparently I'm supposed to try a chip butty next....Something that I need to mention here is the amount of tea I ingested on this trip. By this time in the trip I had tea when I first arrived at davids, when i got to his nana's house, when I woke up, etc. I would continue this trend throughout the rest of my trip, every new house I stepped into, the first question would be "do you want a brew?" or "would you like a cuppa?" followed by "do you take sugar love?" followed by "how many?" Oh how i love the English!!! Sidenote: Do you want a brew? has total different connotation than in the states. I don't think i would have accepted the offer of a brew at 10 o'clock in the morning in the US. brew=tea here, not beer as you might think (silly americans!!)
After that lovely english culinary experience, David's mom met up with us and his grandpa drove us all to the city where we shopped and what not and then went out to eat... here i realized how much I miss American Lemonade. I don't drink pop and so if i go out in the States i'll order an Ice Tea or more often, a lemonade. I caught myself almost ordering a Lemonade until I realized I would have been brought a sprite. no fear though, after a call to my mom, she brought me two huge containers of country time lemonade mix....delicious!!!!! Lunch was really nice, I had a duck salad which was great (i've found my eating habits/content have changed a bit while here. For instance, there are periods when i seem almost vegetarian and I have been eating a lot more duck and rabbit and no beef at all......)
We split up from David's mum and then continued to shop around a bit more and wander around before we went back to David's house where we got ready to go to his friends Ali and Sam's house. David's friend Amanda picked us up to go Bury where they lived and I learned where David got his crazy driving skills from...it was like nascar, except on the other side of the road.
Ali and Sam have an amazing house and Sam had cooked a beautiful sit down dinner of bread and this pasta that was amazing and lots of wine. For dessert I think we had the most amazing and simple thing ever, strawberries and cream...mmmmm....After that we played trivial pursuit. Now i'm usually a master at this game (my brother Larry and I are the reigning Y-Camp Family Camp Champs) but I found myself useless in the ways of British trivia. I did get all of the America questions though!!! A fun night of playing games and talking and what not we called it a night. Good times. Good People.