Platform 9 3/4

So our train to Walsingham for the retreat this weekend left from King's Cross Station.  For those of you don't recall, that would be the station that the Hogwarts Express leaves from.  Needless to say, I was pretty excited to go visit Platform 9 3/4, possibly more excited than I have been for anything else.  The picture should be up soon, because I managed to forget my camera, so I'll be stealing all the pictures from this weekend to put up on Picasa.  No worries though, I should be back at King's Cross soon enough to take another good set of pictures with my hands on the cart going  through to the other side.

The retreat though was amazing.  It was absolutely silent up in Walsingham.  The countryside was beautiful, rolling green hills with the funniest sounding sheep all over.  We visited an Anglican shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham and then the Catholic shrine as well (Our Lady of Walsingham apparently appeared to a woman in the 10th or 11th century and asked her to build a copy of the house of the Holy Family from Nazareth in Walsingham so people could visit.  Then a pilgrimage began, especially given how hard it was to visit the Holy Land during the Crusades. Though that original replica was destroyed, the new replica of the replica still draws a lot of visitors each year.)  Probably the most beautiful was a beach on the Eastern coast of England we went to.  We were able to walk about 2 or so miles on sand where the water is during high tide.  The tide comes in at 5 mph, so visiting during low tide was amazing.  It also helped it was a perfect, sunny day, and we were playing catch on the beach.  That, a few intense games of mafia Friday night and on the train, along with the return on 90/10 juice from Kairos made for quite the weekend. 

and pictures are now up on the picasa site