Seven Sisters Country Park

On Saturday we headed for the coast to a town named Brighton. It was about an hour train ride from London. The town had many wonderful little shops full of unique and beautiful things- a perfect place to do your Christmas shopping and do some sightseeing. From Brighton, we took a 45 minute bus ride through some other little towns and the green rolling hills of the English countryside to arrive at the Seven Sisters Country Park. The park is known for its 7 white chalk cliffs that are exposed and jut out into the river.

Here is a photo and link from Wikipedia with more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_Country_Park

We were starving when we arrived- so we ate at a little English cafe named the Exceat Farmhouse nearby the park visitor center. The food was delicious. The tea was particularly memorable. Mine was a hot berry tea and the taste lingered in my mouth all day. It was so yummy and warmed my soul! Ady enjoyed a strawberry milkshake and a fruit scone.

We were in a bit of a hurry to get hiking since we had arrived later to the park than we would have liked- It was approaching 3 pm when we finished our food -and the sun goes down about 3:30 pm now. It is straight dark by 4:30 pm! So we had to hurry if we wanted to see the cliffs before night fell. We crossed the road and were on our way. Along the path, I stopped to take a few pictures and when I went to catch up to Tyler and Ady, they started running away and laughing. Ady was giggling and having a great time- so I ran faster and chased them. Tyler grabbed Ady to hold her so they could run faster, and suddenly Ady started crying. Then she cried harder, and then couldn't stop crying. In all our fun, her poor elbow had popped out of socket... again. Our hike to the Seven Sisters abruptly ended and soon enough, we were back on the bus toward Brighton. A nice woman was sitting on the bus and gave us all the information on how to get to the hospital. She even told the bus driver to inform us when our stop was. When he said to her, "Well, I will try to remember." She got stern and threatened him, "Well, you BEST remember!"

We found the hospital and got registered easily. We had to wait about 45 minutes, which was a bit unsettling- but once we got in, the doctor popped it back in. As we left the room, Ady was so angry and riled up from all the pain she had been in, that she let out a royal scream and gave me a good walloping on my face. Luckily, we didn't have to turn around and go back in for medical help for me. And frankly, I don't blame her for giving me a good paddy-whack to my face. She had to endure a floppy arm for almost 2 hours till we got her put back together again. She was soon back to her happy self- and we soon found ourselves on the train headed back to London.

When we arrived in London we stopped by Tyler's work to grab some dinner and take a tour of E&Y. We found a nice place to sit up on the 10th floor, overlooking the Thames river with all the boats lit up and Tower Bridge. It happened to be a holiday here that day and so our view was complete with a beautiful fireworks show. A little too dreamy, huh?

We headed home after that, happy to have survived the day.