This is the main pool at the Roman Baths. The water has the coolest green color.Basically the baths were a public place to bathe, swim, and worship. It still always blows me away how advanced the Romans were. They had all of these ingenious water systems and different ways of heating it and making it cold, etc. In some rooms they had heating ducts under the floor and it would heat up the water so they could have saunas and stuff. It was cool!
This was a pool where the Romans would make offerings to the gods by throwing in their coins. Today it is FULL of coins, as tourists come through and make their offerings as well. I just loved the color of it!After seeing all of it we got to try some of the natural spa water that comes out of the spring. It was gross!!! It was hot and super mineraly. It tasted like hot salt water, but it was cool to try I guess. After the baths we went to the Fashion Museum and it was sweet! In one section they had the dress of the year for each year and in another section they had modern dresses that were matched up with a similar dress from past decades. It was cool to see how a lot of modern dresses are so similar to other fashion eras yet different in some areas. There was also a room where you could try on corsets and hoop skirts and that was cool.
My favorite part of the museum was a special collection from The Supremes. I didn't even know who they were so Kylee had to kindly explain to me. In case you're as sheltered as I am and don't know they were a famous trio of black female singers and you can go look it up if you want to know more. They had a bunch of their glamorous outfits and they were way cool. After that we went to the Jane Austin Center. It was pretty awesome. 
They had gentlemen at the entrance all dressed up to greet everyone and take pictures. They were cool.Jane Austin lived in Bath for a few years of her life, which I didn't know before today. They had a little gift shop full of her books and things and it was cute. I totally bought a Mr. Darci picture that I'm going to hang up on my wall because he is basically my hero and I'm in love with him. We didn't pay the entrance fee and actually go through the museum part but we did have a tea party upstairs in the tea room. It was so fun!
Kylee and I with our raspberry cranberry something something tea
Mr. Darci watched over us as we drank our tea
I had tea and crumpets and they were so delicious! I'd never had crumpets before. I didn't even know what they were! Basically they're just like a really thick, spongy pancake. But they're chewier than a pancake. They came with clotted cream and honey and it was oh so yummy. Amanda got a victorian sponge cake and we shared.
We pretty much had to run back to the train station to catch our train and we made it on with one minute to spare. It was about an hour ride. When we got back to London we stopped by our flat and ate really fast. For the first time in my life all I wanted was a bowl of cereal for dinner! haha. I think I'm starting to adopt Amanda's eating habits. I had some corn flakes and they were very satisfying. Then Ashley and I booked it to Picadilly Circus to go see Les Miserebles. It was so AMAZING!!!! I absolutely loved it! I've always wanted to see it and I definitely wasn't expecting to while I was here but it worked out! It was so good! It just has the most powerful message about forgiveness and mercy. It totally made me cry and I am not a crier. Out of all the Broadways I've seen I think it has the best message. I'm so glad I got to finally see it! This trip has just been awesome. All of my dreams have been coming true! haha
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