Bath and a "School"

Okay so, today was the trip to Bath and we watched the USA U17s squad play Canada at the Millfield private school. 

Millfield is unlike high school like any you may know, in fact, it's sort of like an olympic training center for sports, with a library and a teacher.  They have a huge indoor pool (olympic size of course), with a mini pool on the side. There are three professional rugby fields, and two cricket fields, a golf course, a manor house for the dean, and a very small trailer for the "Physics Annex" (where they teach physics class).  The huge cafeteria overlooks the rugby field so that you may dine and watch.  It's like dinner and a movie, except REAL HD. There are even huge buildings for badminton, fencing, shooting, and ping pong. Those are each separate buildings. All this for the bargain tuition of just under 30,000 GBP per year. Thats just under $44,000. Cheap. Wait that reminds me of Duke tuition and board.

Earlier in the day we drove to Bath, an old English city from the time of the Romans. Yep that's about 2000 years ago. We walked around Bath and bought sweets and rugby clothes. This was a short but interesting visit. Lots of old buildings with curved facades.  

Back to the ridiculous "school". The U17s USA squad played the Canadian squad, ending with a 22-7 loss (or something like that). It was a sad moment. But then we got the tour of the campus and everyone ate together so the wound was healed. We ate and mingled and we talked to the two North Carolina players on the U17 squad, which was cool. We had met them from NC all stars.

The ride back was calm, and we saw stonehenge for like 2 minutes, it was sweet. Kareem didn't know Stonehenge was in England. Tim was asleep. Jon somehow missed it. I guess its easy to miss, its only 25 huge rocks on a completely cleared field...

But we don't have pictures yet, so we will upload those tomorrow, but everyone had lots of fun. :D