ooo we got a Job!!!

So news flash time.

We have now got a live in hotel job in Warwick. We headed up there on Tuesday to have a look around and meet the manager (who was really nice) and have an casual interview. The hotel is really nice and there is a wee flat out the back where we can live. For those who don't know where Warwick is (and I assume that means pretty much all of you) its a wee town between Birmingham and Oxford (and so northwestish of London). Oh and by the way its pronounced Warick without the 2nd 'W'. Warwick has a castle (doesn't every english town?) and is near Stratford on Avon so there will be heaps of things to do on our days off. Gem will get to do some reception work as well as bar/wait and I will be doing bar/wait aswell and sometimes a night shift. I think the morning shifts might be a bit of a challenge for me since they start at quarter to seven in the morning!

In touristland we have been to a couple more museums (Natural History and Science Museums) and we went to Madame Tussauds today. The Natural History museum was really cool with lots of interesting exhibits. The dinosaurs is the most popular with heaps of bones and models. After we went through the queue to get in had grown all the way through the central hall and was a 45minute wait! We listened to a live presentation on Martian meteorites which was way more scientifically orientated than Gem thought (she thought it would be filled with kids). Gem's favourite bit (and mine too) was the ant farm. They had leafcutter ants in a big glass tank and we watched them busily cutting leaves and carting them back (across a wee stick bridge over water) to their colony. We probably sat there for about half an hour just watching them. We watched them all trying to cut up a big stick and watching them all work toghether, it was really funny.

We saw lots of famous people in Madame Tussauds and Gem even got her picture with the Queen!!! (photo will be up soon). There was a wax figure of a tourist taking a photo and whenever I saw it I kept reflexivly moving out of her picture. They had a scary bit downstairs where actors would leap out of the shadows and scare you and I'm not sure how it all related to wax figures but anyway...

Ooh totally forgot. After we got back from Warwick we managed to get some late tickets to Spamalot (musical of Monty Python's Holy Grail). It was fantastically hilarious. We laughed the whole way through and are still chuckling about it now.

You might think that things have gone perfectly this holiday but we've had a bit of a fiasco this week. We've had bugs in our beds at the hostel and been bitten all over. They're real itchy!!! The hostel have been real good about it and have sprayed the room yesterday but this morning the other people in the room found some more so they've sprayed it again today. Hopefully that will solve it.

So thats all for now.

Love Us.