Bonding Time with Jo

Monday August 6^th:

I had planned to go to Cambridge but I ended up sleeping in WAY late. Like noon. I think my body is starting to take the hit of getting only 6 hours of sleep a night. Yes, 6 hours is a good amount of sleep but I’m the kind of person that usually needs 8 hours. I like my sleep time.

So instead, I went to the post office to mail some books and newspapers I collected. Sure they are fairly light, but I ne. The lady was incredibly helpful and helped me to find the cheapest price. I started with the option of paying 75 pounds and ended up only paying 44 pounds. Still a bit spendy, but WAY better compared to the original price.

After I got back, Jo and I went on a little road trip to Stamford and Bughley House. We walked around Stamford and saw a cute bakery with adorable cakes in the display window. The rain was coming down fairly hard so we took shelter in a shop. They had all kinds of fancy sculptures for decorations, silverware, high tea plates and trays, some purses, and very cute toys.

We went upstairs to the café to have a little scone snack. I had some hot chocolate and Jo got some herbal tea to go with our scones. Have to admit, it felt a bit strange to be needing to drink hot chocolate in August. Oh well, it was delicious.

The rain had stopped so we continued walking around. We went into a grocery store so Jo could buy a pork pie, a UK specialty.

We then drove to Bughey house and walked around the grounds. It’s not a house. It’s a mansion. It’s like the house-version of Kensington Palace! Anyways, as we were walking around the grounds some guys were putting down wooden planks for something. It looked like they were setting up for a horse jumping event.

After we got back to the house, we had some dinner and then had family night. We read some scriptures and played a game called… Something that started with an H and a long name. Basically, we played noisy charades. At first, Elliot and Ben were not for playing but eventually they got into it. It was boys vs. girls (3 to 2) and we really did make the strangest sounds. It felt like we were doing Sound effects from Whose line it is Anyway just without Colin and Ryan making hilarious comments (if you have time, look it up on youtube. The best ones are Tarzan, Indiana Jones, and Cops and Ducks. They’re all really good).

When we finished the game, Jo and I started talking about BYU. We ended talking for almost 2 hours about how the church numbers are in the UK and the USA, Malcolm in the Middle, how we like thriller books and not horror books, Jo’s incident at the movie Carrie with her sister, shared some stories of when our testimonies were tested and grew stronger, and confirmed details for tomorrow. Yeah, we talked about random things but it was a fantastic conversation full of laughs and spirit-filling moments.