My Dream Date, Cute

I truly think I could write a whole Grey’s Anatomy long television run about how perfect our day in Bath was. I am not kidding when I say my dream date and most perfect day. Bath came at the most perfect time of the trip; we were a few weeks into our trip abroad, and just feeling comfortable and settled in London, we could use a day trip “out of the city”. Everything about the day was dreamy and romantic, even the mode of transportation; something about the tube-to-train pipeline really makes you appreciate when you are training the way there. Noah Kahan said it best, “There’s somethin’ ’bout the window seats got you feeling like a poet”, and that is exactly how I traveled to Bath. Window seat, AirPods listening to Ella Fitz (my G!), reading the peak romantic The Notebook, surrounded by my best friends who were doing the exact same thing. I really was not kidding when I said a dream. So, before we even arrived in Bath, the day was already winning me over. We eagerly arrived in Bath, feeling the sun hit our skin as it was the warmest day of the trip thus far, and excited to experience this magical place. We first stopped around some local artisans and shops, of course making our way inside a chocolate house, a bookstore, a paint shop, and a souvenir shop for good measure #dream. Even our walk along the water was magical. Somehow, Bath had the greenest grass, bluest sky, and even made the concrete look prettier than what is offered in the States. Funny how that happens. We saw birds flying by, swans and baby ducklings jumping in the water, and if the scenery needed to get any better, we spotted a senior citizen landscape painting class taught down on the river…I mean, you have got to be kidding me. When we mustered up the self-discipline to cut our dreamy water-side walk short, we remembered we had the historic and iconic Pump Room to enjoy some refreshment and cosplay Elizabethan-time Pump Room regulars. This lunch was a lunch I want to remember every single detail about. To dream about London is to dream about an afternoon tea, and to have tea in the Pump Room, where royalty walked and sat, literally gives me chills. There is no place more romantic and surreal than drinking tea in London, with 30-foot oil portraits of queens surrounding you, a pianist playing the Ballad of La La Land, and snacking on Jane Austen-themed finger sandwiches. I mean…#dream. While doing so, we pretended to be Royals from the 1800s, giving ourselves fake names like Lady Lord, Lady Oxford, and I =, of course, was Lady Butterfly. To speak how the people that sat in our seats 200 years ago spoke, and act, and think, was something literally out of a movie. It felt so magical to be surrounded by friends (fellow theater kids) who encourage being weird and playful; that is what makes life so fun. After we had bellies full of sugary tea and cake, we wandered. And oh, what a dream it was to wander. We walked past all of the Bridgerton filming spots, stopped by the cutest Lemonade stop, played in a playground (swings for life), and met the cutest puppies along the way. We even saw an outdoor theater rehearsing a dress rehearsal for the show they had later that day…God’s little sign telling me that I was exactly where I needed to be. Of course we ended the day with 2 big ole scoops of gelato, chocolate and raspberry, because duh! How else would I end the most perfect day? To wrap up a description that could have spared a few details, when I think back about this trip, I will always remember this day as something out of a dream. I am so extremely thankful to have experienced a day in Bath, and to be surrounded by legends at the Pump Room, who hold my admiration forever!