Liverpool and London Blizzard

Lann and I spent the weekend in Liverpool! Our main reason for going to was to see the football game between Liverpool and Chelsea...which according to Lann was bigger than the Superbowl. While in the land of the Beatles we also walked around the city, went to the Beatles Museum, toured the Liverpool football stadium and visited the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Liverpool is an interesting city. Its located on the water nad back in the day was home to some of the major British ships. Once the Beatles moved through Liverpool though the city took a turn for the worse and its only in the last 10 years that things have started to turn around. Every where you look throughout the city there are buildings being demolished, new buildings that have just opened and historic buildings. Liverpool was voted the city of cultural for 2008 in the UK.....and they are hosting the international badminton championships this summer!

The real exciting part of the weekend though didnt take place in Liverpool. After a three hour train ride we arrived at the Euston London train station at midnight.....in the middle of a blizzard......well what British people at least consider to be a blizzard at least....approx three inches of snow. This "blizzard" caused the whole city to shut down, cabs, buses, tubes, etc. essentially leaving us stranded a good 6 miles from school. After over an hour of phone calls, brainstorming, attempting to get cabs we finally called it quits and checked into a "travel lodge" for 76 pounds.

No sooner had we checked in to this minimal dump than we got a phone call saying there would be a cab for us in 20 minutes! We are very thankful to have some good friends here in London who made lots of phone calls to various cab companies on our behalf. This felt like winning the lottery! So finally after 2 plus hours of being "stranded" we crawled into a cab and made it safely home. I have never been so glad to see 1 st. albans grove in my whole three weeks in London.

I'm sure Lann will write a post shortly reliving every single minute of the Liverpool vs. Chelsea match.....good luck!