Thinking

- What is up with all shirts being long enough to fit a woman who is 8 feet tall? I understand that everyone still wears low-rise jeans and so the shirts need to be a bit longer, but I seriously can't even try on half the shirts in the stores because they're really long. And I even have a pretty long torso. They always hit me about mid-bum and since I'm curvy they just look terrible because either they're super clingy or if I try them on so that they're large enough to fit my bum, very tent-like. Where do they hit on the normal-torsoed, non-curvy girl - mid-thigh? I bought a couple shirts last week that I like, but am kind of thinking about taking to a tailor to get hemmed a couple of inches shorter.

- We went to the Cape a couple of weekends ago and I decided I might not really mind so much being one of those ladies who leaves the city for the summer to stay at the beach house with the nanny and the kids and spends her days at the beach, getting spa treatments and lunching with friends while hubby works and comes out on weekends. Yes, I just deducted about 500 points from my feminist score.

England!

I didn't want to talk about this too much and be all, "Hi, we're going to be in England for 10 days. Rob us, please!", but Jason and I were in England for 10 days. I'm using the MBTA's wireless and writing this on the train back to Providence. We were in England on tour with the Christ Church Cambridge Evensong Choir, where we sang in 6 different cathedrals throughout England.

Despite the sore feet and my ultimately ragged singing voice, it was an amazing experience and I'm so glad Jason and I got to do it together. We made some new friends and got to know our old friends better. Each of the cathedrals and the towns they were in had their own feel and flavor, and we got to sample a bit of them all. We stayed in London, Lincoln and Bath and had fun exploring those towns on our down time. I would love to go back to them all! We ate lots of fish and chips, savory pies, pasties, sausage rolls and various puddings.

The whole thing was organized through a tour company, so we stayed in much swankier hotels than Jason and I would have stayed in if we were traveling solo. Everything was planned for us, which was actually pretty nice. Also, we had an amazingly wonderful tour guide (dare I say, "delicious"? That was one of her favorite words to describe, well, most things. Cathedrals, castles, towns, people. Pretty much anything except food.) She was hilarious and fit in very well with our group. I plan to give her high marks with the tour company.

The whole trip really made me wish we still lived in Cambridge so that we could hang out with everyone on a regular basis. One of the ladies is already talking about having a choir tour reunion potluck over the summer and I really hope she follows through.

If you're interested, one of the members of the choir posted a bit on a blog while we were gone. There's a flickr stream on the blog with lots of great photos of the choristers, the cathedrals, the towns and our extracurricular excursions. Also, he says he's going to try to post mp3s of us singing in the next few days.