email home from newark 6

today we took a tour of newark (the other tour was just of there little village, which at the time i thought was newark but , its just a small part of it.) in newark we saw the castle ruins were the castle was burnt down, and the outside was stone but everything inside was wood so it was very venerable. and the river runs right in front of in so we had a terrific view from a window in the castle. then we went to the market and went to the bank to exchange $ --> €, because i havent bought anything, laura wont let me pay for anything she wants to buy it for me which i find quite terrible. we went into a shop to find some trousers (trousers because pants are girls underwear, which i didnt find out until today, so i have been telling people about my girls underwear, not my "pants" all this time)(oh and you dont even want to know what a fanny is, which makes fanny packs sooooooo funy to the brits) but anyway... and we went into a shop and , i must say the english have style, i wouldnt have a hard time spending hundreds of $s in that place, and everything is reasonably priced not $55 for a pair of trousers. but i found a pair of (well im going to say pants for emails because it more familiar and easier to type) pants i liked and was going to try them on and went into what i would not call a fitting room at all more of a " i can barely move in here room were i change cloths" but in the end the pants fit and of course laura and i fought because she insisted on paying, but she won. we went to a coffee shop for lunch and i saw on the menu on the wall that they had a baked potato with cheese and bacon and i lit up thinking of it as a delicious shredded cheddar and bacon bit potato, so thats what i ordered. when it came it was a potato with torn up pieces of a white cheese of sorts and thick pieces of bacon on a potato, the cheese wasnt very good but otherwise ive had worse. we went to the church there which i got a lot of pics of, because simon let me borrow a digital camera so i dont have to buy so much film. and it was old as well as everything here. then we went to waitrose, the supermarket, and shopped for thing that i might like, and when we got around to the drinks she bought me alot of sodas and juices that she gave me that look on were she knows they are very bad but they are traditional drinks and wants me to try them, and i say hay i only have to have it in my mouth once. i havent tried them yet but prolly tomorrow. oh and that alcoholic drink i had at the party last night was pimms, which people put cucumbers in. but it wasnt my fancy. when we got home laura broke the iron and shorted the cirut, but we fixed it and went to get a new iron. hanna looked after the girls most of the day, and made sausages and buns for dinner, which i was scared of the sound of it. but it was like little breakfast sausages ( with a different taste, really good though) on a hot dog bun, mine w/ ketchup. but it was much better than a hotdog, and it actually had flavor unlike most foods here. then me and scarlet had a hula-hoop lesson from zena. then it was bed time for the girls. then me and laura had a long nice chat, i really like talking to her shes such a great person...