On Saturday, we all wandered around town for a bit.  Mac went on a Tall Ship (like the ones that were just in Boston!)  Megan and I went to a Fairy exhibit at the city art center. (Yes mom, we did get you something!)  Then, Megan and I went and bought granola and yogurt, and sat in the park for a bit getting some sun.  Mac and his two friends, Mils and Lisa met up with us, and then we were joined by Barny, Aaron, and Oli, and went to the Southampton Common.  It is this HUGE park in the middle of the city, and it’s probably several acres large.  We played frisbee, the ukulele, and the boys drank beer.  Frisbee was really fun, and Mac invented some new words.  When you’re very good at Frisbee, you have “Frizz.”  Such as, “Oh man, I lost my frizz!”

After the common, we went back to Megan and Mac’s flat and made dinner.  While I was on my computer, Bennie and Laura (our friends from Boston) video chatted me, and I called over Megan and Mac to say hello.  Mac then realized he had a web cam on his computer, so Megan and I could video chat when I’m back in America.  We tried setting it up, but when we spoke, there was crazy feedback going through the two computers.  Mac loved it, and played with it for a very long time.  Every time someone spoke, it was picked up by one of the microphones, and carried through the speakers into the other microphone, and it just kept going.  There were several times when the sound waves seemed to have gotten lost, and something would come back 10 seconds later.  “I said that ages ago!”  It was very weird.

We also cut out a bunch of butterfly pictures and hung them to their ceiling.  We had an assembly line going.  I would cut out a butterfly, Megan would give it the finishing touches (she had scissors, I had a kitchen knife), Mils would bend it and attach blue putty and a string, and Mac would hang it to the ceiling.  They currently have about 25 butterflies hanging from their ceiling, and it looks very cool, especially when the wind touches them.

Sunday Megan and I went to the Winchester Farmers Market. It was HUGE. There were some vendors who were selling very specific things: garlic, apple juice, bread, meat…. there must have been 50 different vendors. It was amazing. Then, we all went to Mac’s parents house in the New Forest, where I saw a boat load of New Forest ponies, AND wild cows. It was very weird.

I took a lot of pictures of everything, but it’s a lot faster to upload these videos. I’ll do pictures later.