Liverpoooooool

Kind of on a whim, a group of international students decided to organize a random trip to Liverpool. Look at me, being spontaneous! It was kind of fun though, I really didn't know many of the people that I went with, and ended up learning a lot about different people and cultures. Though, when we started the day, it wasn't looking too promising since the rain was coming down so hard that it was flipping everyones umbrellas; but we trudged on over to the train station!

After a bit of confusion, since the direct route from Preston to Liverpool was being worked on, we (okay really the lady working told us what to do, I can't really take credit for this) figured out another route.

The beginning of the City Centre in Liverpool. (Mal -- I thought you would enjoy this, It's our favorite play ;-] !)

Cute little cafe with all kinds of good looking "sweets"

McDonalds. Everyone was totally judging me for taking this picture, but I felt it necessary to keep those of you at home avidly reading my blog (okay, not really..) up to date on EVERY SINGLE THING that's different here. McDonalds apparently serves muffins and donuts for breakfast? Who knew? Also, look at the McFlurry flavors, I asked for an M&M one the other day and the guy looked at me like I had seven heads, now I know why.. 

These are the "YellowDuckMarines"

Conveniently located right by the Beatles .. clever.

I SWEAR THIS IS A LEGITIMATE SIGN. I don't have a clue what it means, obviously there are no zebras in the area and there weren't even speed bumps here, but this sign was on both sides of this pole. I asked Lucy, my flatmate, she lives in Leeds and had never heard of it before.. Interesting..

Yay Study Abroad Pose!

Part of the group, the ones who had never been to the Beatles Story before.
Chris (Missouri) Marissa (Colombia) Me (nowhere near as exciting) Abdul (Pakistan) Stevie (New York) and Heidi (Finland)

This literally made me so mad that I had to complain. They listed the places that the Beatles toured to and it said BUNCH Stadium in St. Louis! I knew you would all be proud...

After we came out of the Beatles Museum, it was SUNNNY!!

Even the alleyways are adorable..

Apparently it's required to have 40 million cops surrounding a non-violent religious protest

So we climbed statues to find out what was going on, eventually finding out nothing .. boo

I was so excited for the "Pink" store, until I realized that we were wandering through the Gay part of Liverpool.
It was, enlightening

The World Museum

47 streets that we had to cross to get to the World Museum which had NO crosswalks anywhere in sight.
Don't worry, we all survived

Photo Op!

Representin' BU!

Chris, my giant friend from Germany

Two things 1. Chris from Missouri (yes, I run around with three different Chris', this is real life) decided to nap in the place where we were going to meet later. and 2. This little boy was adorable, we played with his new dinosaur together. Little kids with British accents literally completes my life.

Gotta have it =]

The classic antiquey-architecture of Liverpool, with the 20th century building, and then Great Western Railway, some sort of port store in the front of it all.
Pretty much sums up everything about Liverpool

The Ocean <3
Reminded me a lot of Pier 39 in San Francisco

Not as glamorous as I was anticipating..

This poor bird was fighting gale-force winds. He would get like a foot forward, and then be thrown back. Quite entertaining.

Marissa and I

This is where the Titanic exhibit was, you know, since Titanic SAILED FROM LIVERPOOL!
How cool right??

The best part of the movie takes place here. (But this is the original model used to build the ships)

Oscar, from Mexico, and I in front of the "Pirate-looking Ship"

I love England

HALEY I FINALLY FOUND FAKE QDOBA! (aka BarBurrito)
Eventhough Oscar (^) refused to eat it because it was "so fake" it literally was the best £5 I've spent the whole time! YUM!

Our travel group at the McDonalds that we used as our main meeting point for the day.

Liverpool was a ton of fun and a very enlightening experience. The accents were soooo much thinker in Liverpool, so that was definitely an experience... Trying to get back to Preston was also a  pretty difficult part of the day because of the train situation, and of course we were sent on a completely different route which was "faster" but made us walk from one station to another through a town that nobody had ever heard of before. Thankfully, we eventually found it and made our train, it was only a little dark and creepy .. thank goodness for big groups!

Cheers!