Mancunian Migration

Outside of library

Near the "Roman Fort", probably more interesting than the actual "fort".

random portrait from art museum

inside library, this photo does no justice...

one too many pints for one mancunian.

awesome church we saw.

inside of the church, it was massive!

Manchster! Actually let me rephrase that. Manchester. It doesn't really deserve the exclamation point. It's a nice city, and it was a fun weekend but it was not the top of the muffin. I mean the bottom of the muffin is good, it's just not as good as the muffin top, and Manchester was a muffin bottom, if that makes sense.

Well, I'm not going to give a full itinerary of the weekend, because that's boring. I don't want to bore anyone with the mundane details of Jordan and I doing things like "riding the tram into the city" or "walking around town". So I'll just keep it to some highlights...

Friday, we went to the 14th century church that is shown above, it was a pretty impressive structure. The detail and ornate carving just amazed me. After that, we went to the art museum downtown and browsed the galleries for a couple hours. It was interesting at some points dull at others. I will say this though, I wish I could paint, and I wonder if I would have the patience to paint a wall size portrait? Those must have taken years! The other two noteworthy things from Friday were eating my first deep fried Mars bar, which was in a word: heavenly. What I tasted was probably better than Michael Phelps eight gold medals. Yep, deep fried heart attack tastes better than gold! I will definitely be getting my paws on some more of those before my time here is finished. Secondly, I realized I like British TV. It's just as funny if not more, and is more realistic. The people on TV actually look like real people, and they seem smarter than our American TV personalities, but maybe that's just the accent.

Other things that went down, the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Museum, Harry Potter movie on the Imax. Both museums were very big, very good, and very free. Although my feet got pretty tired doing all that standing it was really cool to learn about Manchester's history and feel like I bumped up the ol' IQ a couple points. Of course those points gained probably were canceled out by the pints consumed, but it's a give and take.

I'll finish with some final miscellaneous thoughts: a lot of guys with shaved heads in Manchester, I felt like there was a Vin Diesel look alike contest in town. Trying to find Chinatown simply by following asian people is a hit and miss proposition. The "Roman Fort" was more like the ones I used to build when I was six. The full English Breakfast is one of God's gifts to men.

That's all I got, it's late I'm tired. Thanks for reading, if ya don't know, now ya know....