St. Andrews

Today we went to St. Andrews. This was a cool trip because I have always heard about the golf course so it was cool to go and see it in person. The trip was slightly more than I expected to pay for it but I believe that it was worth it. Even though I’m not really that in to golf I know a lot of people who are so it was cool to buy presents for Papa, Blaze, John and Jerry there. I can’t wait until Christmas to give them to them. It was pretty cool to take the train because I have only been on a train once before so I thought it was fun to travel the way that a lot of Europeans do. I think that if America had a better train system that more people would actually use it. I thought that it was cool to not only get there faster but to also get to see the countryside at the same time.

We couldn’t take the train all the way to St. Andrews so we had to catch a bus to take us the rest of the way. While we were waiting for the bus, fighter jets were flying over us. We figured that there must be a RAF base near by because we were watching them take off and land. Another give away was that across the street there were a bunch of houses that looked very similar and we figured that they were military housing.

When we got to the course we just walked around and made our way towards the gift shop because almost everyone that we were with needed to buy gifts for family and friends. Brooke of course had to take a picture in front of a St. Andrews sign with her shirt that said “Golf, An American Tradition”. It was pretty funny since golf was invented at St. Andrews! The rest of the day we just spent walking around St. Andrews looking at the sights, taking pictures of some of the buildings of University of St. Andrews, while normally this wouldn’t have meant anything to me but since, Prince William went there it was pretty cool to be there walking the same streets.

For lunch we went to a pub but Nick, on of the guys that hung out with us, got carded and he didn’t have any id to prove that he was over 18 so he had to leave! I felt bad but some of us still ate at the pub because it was pretty cheap. When we got back to the train station we had to wait for about 40 min to get on the train. When it finally did get there four of us couldn’t find seats so we had to stand. We were lucky however because the rest of our group ran up to the train right when it started to pull away! They were about 10 sec. too late and had to wait another hour for the next train to get there. Even though we had to stand for part of the trip it was pretty entertaining because there was a bachelor party going on, on the train. They all had on matching shirts and they were traveling with two cases of beer! This would never fly in the States, you would be kicked off the train if anyone did that! When we finally did get a seat near the other two people in the group we had a good time because two of the girls were so funny and we were laughing at the stupidest things ever! I’m sure everyone else on the train was very annoyed and if I was in their shoes I would be annoyed as well but from my stand point it was hilarious.