July 8- Church and Warwick Castle

We woke up really early and returned keys to the Sherwood Forest Youth Hostel.  Then, we drove less than an hour to St. Leonard’s Church in Nottingham.  We met the Brits there around 9:45.  Their church is extremely beautiful and historical.  They showed us an old hymnal that had been restored by the University of Nottingham.  It had survived through the Reformation and it was now on a computer kiosk thing at the church.  After church, we had coffee with them in the fellowship hall and they introduced us to friends.  They took us to lunch at a buffet, “carvery.”  Then we walked around Wollaton Hall and the Brits took us back to our car, which we left parked at the church.  We drove about 2 hours to Warwick Castle and got there around 3:00.  Beautiful weather.  We left Warwick around 5:30 and drove to the Bridge Hotel near Weybridge.  We bought dinner from the gas station.  We took a short nap then left to pick up Dad at Heathrow around 9:30.  His flight arrived at 9:55.  However, the customs line was super long, so Cooper and I waited for him until almost midnight.  We were really worried that something was wrong.  Dad bought a sandwich and orange juice for dinner from the local gas station.