so today i saw the most beautiful place on earth.

so i'm not taking the bible and christianity class, but from what I understand from chery, there are some places that are thought in many christian religions to be 'thin places' where the wall between this life and heaven is as thin as a piece of paper. or something like that? anyway, today we went to GLASTONBURY, which is a thin place because of the legends that Christ grew up there or something?? I don't know, I must have missed that primary lesson... but it was amazing! so, so, so beautiful!!! and i'm totally buying the whole thin place thing.. heaven can't be much better than standing at the top of that hill at the tor overlooking england. so amazing! it literaly took my breath away. I wished i knew poetry to recite in that moment because I couldn't think of any words (and obviously still can't) that do it any sort of justice. it was cloudy and gray and the green stretched forever with little red roofs peeking up. I wish we could have stayed there all day. Or forever. I was so perfectly content. One day, I'm going back there.
After that, the bar had been raised pretty high, but also on the docket today: Stourhead and Bath!! Stourhead is where they filmed the newest pride and prejudice with kiera knightly in that scene where she's at that temple and darcy proposes in the rain! so beautiful!!! it was this incredible garden. huge! lots of ruins and buildings and water etc. We ran the whole time. well just jacqui and i, we ended up going kind of to the wrong place (also beautiful, but not the P&P place..) so we ran around everywhere! my face is so red and sweaty in our pictures there... haha but we made it. we only had an hour there... yeah. I'll be coming back here one day too!
Bath was great too. we did the audio guide around the actual roman baths which are pretty cool. The water is still boinling and steaming and I drank the water that I think gives you youth or health or something? i'm not sure, all i konw is i drank it. the architecture in that city is just amazing. we danced at the ballroom in the assembly hall and had some kind of pastry sausage roll thing for dinner and wandered the streets of bath. definitely 3 of the most amazing places of all time.
oh i forgot to mention the ruins there that we saw! as jane austen said: henry viii did england a great service by providing all of these beautiful ruins on the landscapes. thanks for the disillusionment henry. i guess.
So Jacqui and i had a great idea today - we're going to open a Bed and Breakfast one day together! she can give history tours, and our husbands will have real jobs to support this place. Maybe we'll start it right in Glastobury, but we are going to sample more places first, you know all around the world, just to make sure we find the most beautiful place on earth. But I really honesty think that glastonbury might be it...