Sunday June 14, 2009

We went to St. Mark's for church which is an Anglican church where C. S. Lewis attended.  It was a very formal service with kneeling, standing, kneeling, and readings from the Common Book of Prayers.  We saw where C. S. Lewis was baptized and the stained glass window that he donated to the church as well as the rector where his grandfather lived when he was young (which has a lion doorknob- Aslan?).  The service was very different for me, but it kept me on my toes- what do I do next?!  The highlight was being given candy when we arrived.  We then drove to Lewis' childhood home called Little Lea.  We could only stand at the gate because someone actually lives there today.  This is the home where Lewis came up with the idea for the Narnia series.  His idea of Narnia came up on Holywood Hills near Belfast where you can see far across the land, but the weather was not good enough to go up there.  We then saw a statue of him in a square near his home.  In the statue he is looking into the wardrobe.  Then we went home for lunch and to do homework.  At 4:30pm we went to Hadden's house where his wife had a yummy meal prepared for us as well as blueberry cobbler and honeycomb ice cream for dessert.  We watched the move Shadowlands, which is about C. S. Lewis' life during the time he met his wife.  It was a really good movie, you should check it out.