Yorkshire

Sorry!! I've been so busy with school lately! I'm so behind on my blogging!! So, York! It was amazing. It was such a beautiful city. I think it's the perfect combination of old and new. There's so much history there but at the same time there's so much great shopping and things like that! On the first day we went straight to the youth hostel which I was really excited about since I'd never gone to one before! Then pretty soon after I got there, my dad's sister, Lily and her husband Phil came to pick me up. Then we all went to a pub in Dewsbury (where they live) and met all of their kids as well as my dad's other sister Lorraine and his mum Margaret. It was really amazing to meet all of them. They were all so sweet to me and it was great to catch up on the past sixteen years of my life haha. It also made it really clear why I look the way I look! They're all like the same height as me and same type of body shape haha but they all say that my face looks exactly like my mum's. The next day I met up with my dad's brothers Charlie and Stuart and also Stuart's wife Dee. Stuart used to live in York so he knows a lot about it and showed us all around which was really fun!! They were soo nice and it was really obvious that they were my dad's brothers. My Uncle Stuart honestly looks just like my dad its so weird!! Their voices are really similar as well! When I was talking to him on the phone it was so surreal because it was just like I was talking to my dad! I spent ages in the minstrel which was beautiful!! Later that night I went back to see their evening service which was... honestly quite awkward because there were only ten people or so there haha but anyway the church bit was amazing!! There was this great museum about the Vikings which I really enjoyed. It was unique because as you went through it it was a Viking village but you also smelled all the smells that they would have smelt haha if that makes sense! I also went to the Roman wall which was really fun but I never figured out how to walk all the way around the wall! It ends for a little bit and I couldn't figure out how to get back on it! The next day I did some shopping in York which was great fun! There are so many great stores there!!  I also found this AMAZING restaurant called El Piano (this is their website http://www.el-piano.com/)  All it's food is 100% vegan and gluten free! It looked like it belonged in New Mexico it was amazing :) while I was in the restaurant I found of that I got into St. Catherine's University in St. Paul!! Later that night I found out I got into Drake University as well!! That was a great day let me tell you!! And then the next day I left for Scotland! (see the next blog for the Scottish saga of my continuing adventures in the frozen north)
xx Emma