If you give a mouse a cookie...

If you give a mouse a cookie...

...he's bound to come back for your underwear.

True story--not my underwear fortunately, but those little critters are tricky. Of course, for me, what was funnier than the mouse itself was the reaction of my roommates--this is the girls trying to find the mouse under the bed, without getting close enough for him to attack, or something--you'd think they'd never seen a mouse before! I guess some food was left out while we were away in the Lake District (note: food is not allowed in the apartment rooms... hmmmm...), so a mouse came to take care of it for us. Haha, personally I thought he was cute, but I think I might have been alone on that opinion.

Yorkshire

One of my favorite things about England: their cars. Everyone drives the most amazing cars! I mean, seriously, no boring cars--just check out this beauty:

Yes, I do need one--My birthday's in May, just in case you want to get me one.

After our tour of the Minster, we had some time to stroll around Yorkshire. Besides cool cars, I got to meet Bob the Builder!

Yes, I am easily amused--can we dress you? yes we can! Hahaha... not sure how I feel about this...

Awesome.

In the middle of this cute town are the "Little Shambles," which is--can you guess?--shopping! :P Except this time I was actually into shopping here, because they had the cutest little food shops--I can shop when food is involved.

Look at these petite fours--so adorable!

You know me, I'm pretty quick sometimes... it wasn't until we found this pub that I realized that "York" is "Yorkshire," and a Yorkie (the dogs we have) is actually a YORKSHIRE Terrier--you know, from YORKSHIRE! Yup, I was in the birthplace of the coolest thing on the planet--THE YORKIE! Cheers to MacGyver, Dolly, and baby Vera! <3

Awesome! It's my baby!

Chocolate Heaven???! HECK YES!!!

Oh yeah, this is my kind of shopping.

Cutest candy shops I've ever seen--had to get the giant Disneyland lollipops--so much fun!

So after a stroll through the town and some extra yummy English treats, we headed back to London once again... which by the way, was THE BEST coach ride ever!--no stops, no movies, no nothing, just wonderful, beautiful, glorious sleep. I have finally learned to LOVE sleep. :)

York Minster

The past few weeks I have attended my parents ward, and guess who is home? The Seely's and the Tate's! Yup, they are back from my wonderful London Town, which of course made me begin to reminisce once more, so here is some more from my days abroad!

So, here is York Minster, a minster as well as a Cathedral--and yes, there is a difference. A minster is a place of learning--a school type deal--while a cathedral is the seat of a bishop--so a minster can be a cathedral, a cathedral can be a minster, but a minster doesn't have to be a cathedral, and a cathedral doesn't have to be a minster. Thus, this particular building is pretty cool and unique.

I LOVE this organ--so BEAUTIFUL!

And the windows--you can never get enough of these stain-glass windows.

This is possibly my absolute favorite window of all time. Check out the bottom.

It's a monkey funeral! and yes, I am dead serious--that is a funeral procession for a monkey. Awesome.

Even the flooring is absolutely gorgeous!

And the ceilings!

Yes, even the religious folk have a sense of humor--this is one of my favorite sculptures. :)

This room was awesome--completely filled from top to bottom with these animal sculptures and gargoyles, all with their own stories behind each. Pretty cool.

Even another Green Man!

And you know what else is totally amazing? These mirrors on wheelys to help poor souls like me to see the ceiling without killing your neck--best invention ever, seriously. Saves a lot of headaches. :)

This is the Five Sisters Window.

The Five Sisters Window contains the largest amount of Early English grisaille glass in a single window anywhere in the world--it contains more than 100,000 pieces of glass and is fifty feet high! Yup, that's pretty cool.

Much of this glass was removed before World War I, then pieced back together when it finally ended. The windows then were dedicated to the women of the Great War--it is one of the only memorials to the women of the war.

These panels contain names of those women--they are completely plastered with names, front and back. It's amazing and quite inspiring--makes you really stop and ponder life.

Next to the Five Sisters Window is an astronomical clack--it is a memorial to the airmen operating from bases in Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland who were killed during WWII.

This is a memorial to the choir boys who served during the war--tender. <3

This is pretty cool as well--it's NASA! This part of the ceiling depicts an astronaut and the moon, commemorating America's Space Program.

This amazing work of art is the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the entire world! Okay, so technically what you see below is a life-size large print of said window, hanging over the empty window frame and scaffolding... haha, it was being restored, so I didn't get to witness it in its total grandeur.

However, instead we had the totally AWESOME! opportunity to see the restoration process and the glass up close--again. so beautiful!!!

Isn't that amazing? I never realized how detailed these pictures are!

Haha, this is pretty cool--a mistranslation of the bible. Apparently the word for halo and horn are pretty similar? Yeah, so the saints in these windows got horns instead of halos... haha.

This baby is the famous Rose Window--the glass here dates from about 1500! It commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster, so yeah, it's a pretty big deal.