Cardiff!

For my second free weekend I went back to Wales, although this time to Cardiff. While Conwy was fun, there is a lot more to do in Cardiff because it's a bigger city. The four of us who traveled to Wales decided to have an easy, relaxed weekend because we'll be thrown into more papers and reading and research by Tuesday.

After an easy train ride into Cardiff we walked around town for a bit, had dinner and went back to work on homework. On Saturday Stephanie and I figured out how to walk from our B and B to Cardiff Bay, where there is more shopping and (more importantly) the Doctor Who Exhibition.

I don't think we found it. Nope. 

Trying to explain Doctor Who to an outsider is difficult, but I'll give it a shot: the show, which has been running for ages, is about a time-traveling alien (a Time Lord) called The Doctor, who picks up Companions and has inter-galactic adventures in his spaceship called the TARDIS (the blue police box). The exhibition took us through a walk-through show highly reminiscent of Universal Studios set tours, where you stop in a room and follow a storyline.

 In the first room we were told the story: the Doctor (Eleven, Matt Smith) has been captured by his enemies. After walking through a literal "crack in time" (a crack in the wall opened) we learn that the TARDIS has called us (the "Shoppers") to help the Doctor, thus becoming his temporary Companions. The Doctor instructed us to hop abroad the TARDIS and to steer the ship. In that room we walked onto the set of Eleven's TARDIS' control room, which shook violently as the ship crashed and careened through space.Then we became prisoners on a Dalek ship (the Daleks being an enemy alien race), and after escaping we came upon a dark room filled with strobe lights and weeping angels. Of course we end up saving the Doctor, and afterwards went to the exhibition. There we got to see props and costumes and other fun things from the set. 

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Like this fine weeping angel. Don't blink. 

Then we walked around Cardiff Bay and admired the view. On Sunday Lauren and I took a bike tour of Cardiff, which was fun. Overall a fun weekend, though I still have lots of homework to do! Tomorrow we meet the group again after a six hour train journey. Fun times.