Day Sixty-Five:: Preston Temple/The Lake District

Back to the bus we went after enjoying a continental breakfast complete with baked beans on toast and eggs that aren't cooked well enough for my personal taste and that lacked bacon (America wins on that one), and to the Preston Temple.

I am trying not to turn into a blog that is all about endorsing the church, but I need to tell you something.  The temple is an awesome place.  They all feel like home, so despite being 5,000 miles from Utah, I was home!  There was just something about seeing everyone in all white and the realization that I am with a group that can do this together and that we had men with us that could assist in the ordinances.  There is no better feeling, I promise you.  I sat in the Turner wing at the Tate Britain a month ago thinking that my life could not get better.  I was wrong.  Being at the temple today beat that indefinitely.  When I get back to Utah I need to take advantage of the blessing I have that I am literally surrounded by temples.  Like I can see the Draper Temple from the windows in my family room, what a blessing!

Also temples are super pretty.

I love Hali

I love Paige

I love all these girls (I stole this picture from someone on Facebook, thanks)

So, everything seems to come back to Turner for me, thus making me very excited for our next stop: the Lake District. What does Turner have to do with the Lake District you may ask? Well, Turner liked it up there and even made some of his landscape paintings of views that he saw there.  And after spending the rest of the day and the night there, I saw why he liked it there.  Basically it was really pretty and there were cottages that were so cute and I would never want to live in them, but still they were adorable.

Beatrix Potter's Cottage

William Wordsworth's Cottage 

Again stolen from Facebook, thank you to who I took it from.  Again I love
all these girls and they are super cool.

So, as we were in the LAKE District and the hostel that we were calling home for the night was yards away from a lake, I (with two other brave souls) took a (nearly) midnight plunge in the lake.  I regret it not, though it was pretty cold, it was okay because my body just went numb really quickly.

Bye,
Kelsie