Let's see how much I can cover tonight before I pass out...so yes! Tuesday night!! I asked the owner where I can put lance and he said he will open the cellar and put lance inside so I went upstairs to get my key to unlock him and I started to panic cause it wasn't in my usual spot. I literally tore the room apart and even went outside near lance to see if I dropped it but I couldn't find it so I went back upstairs and found it eventually, in my hoody pocket. But I felt a lot better about lance being in the cellar. But during this fiasco Neil is doing the quiz by himself, so I missed out on half the first round. Dont think it would have mattered though. So After the quiz Neil entered into some card game called high or low but he didn't get chosen (it was like a raffle) to play. Then we embarked on a journey around wigan and the surrounding areas. He drove me to the pier, the football stadium, through bellinge and haydock and pointed out some stuff along the way. We did that for an hour and then he took me back to the hotel and we said our goodbyes and just as I was packing up the mess I made in the room, he called me and said he left his credit card at the bar!! So I ran downstairs (the bar was closed at this point) and the owner was cleaning up so I just Hung out down there waiting for Neil to come back. The owner asked where I was from and I said new York and he said "I thought all people from ny are supposed to be big and tough." And I said "i may be small but my personality makes up for it!!" So a little while later Neil came by to grab his card, so after that I was able to go to bed!! Wednesday: I checked out of the hotel, then went to haigh country park which was very pretty. And of course there were many pups! The view at the top was nice too :-) I stayed there for a bit, then left and got lost but found my way to the pier to see it in the daylight. Unfortunately the trecherfield engine museum was closed (as was the wigan museum but I had checked the opening hours beforehand) so I just checked out some of the warehouse machinery outside the museum, then headed for the town center to find something to do. I walked around there a bit, checked out their markets, and some shops, then after eating lunch and dealing with Vodafone for 1/2 hr, I went to a park at the edge of the centre. It was nice even though the pavilion was being renovated. So at 2:03pm I left for haydock. I literally just guessed on which direction it was, based on where Neil took me the night before. But I had a feeling I was going the wrong way so I asked some locals and they said haydock was far away and I'm like i can make it lol so they pointed me in the opp direction but it wasn't long before I got lost again so I asked a cop how to get to haydock and again he said it was quite a bit away! It was only 7 mi! I guess wiganians aren't exactly into personal fitness. So I got directions from him, but I just used my gps and found my way out of the town, although I got lost a few times. But I was going along fine until the road ended and there was no sign (much to my amazement) telling me to turn left or right for haydock so I called mikey again and he set me straight. I did fine for the rest of the way until I got to the a580 and I turned the wrong way, so I had to go back the way I came but I did find the travelodge. So arrival time was 4:30 pm, did 22.39 mi total for the day, avg 7.7. The compy was messing up again so I won't put the max. So I checked into my travelodge, finished off the pizza from the night before (but it wasn't frozen anymore so it went down easier) and then met up with Paul Thomas at the pub right near there. While I was waiting for him I was outside the little chef next door to the travelodge, using their free WiFi and freezing my ass off. So the pub was pretty busy, we were there for a few hours. Paul tried to order ice cream towards the end of the night but the bartender was rude about it so we didn't get any in the end. He told me one time him and his friends were having a "guy conversation" which was who would you want on your side in a bar fight? And they had to choose 4 people on their team. I was thinking is he for real? Do guys really get together and talk about this? But I was thinking of ripping his clothes off the entire time we were at the bar so he could have told me he rapes barn animals for living and I would have looked interested. So at the end of the night we went back to the travelodge but he left very shortly after (to my dismay) cause I was super tired. Thursday: I left haydock at 10:16 am, and went to st Helens, which was straight forward, although not very scenic. I arrived at 10:50 am, only 3.82 mi later, avg 8.8 mph. I went straight to the world of glass, which was a lot cooler than I thought it was going to be. I saw a st Helens historical exhibit, an exhibit on glass from its natural history, and from its early uses from the Egyptians up to modern day usage around the world. Then I saw a glass blowing demonstration where they showed us how they made a colored glass dish. After the exhibits and 2 art galleries, I went to the old furnace room where glass used to be made. And you walk under it and see the inside, it was quite cool. After the museum I very quickly rode around the center, wasn't much there but the xmas tree was pretty. They had German markets, but it was no where near as crazy as Manchester! I got a little lost leaving the center to make my way for Liverpool (as I usually do) but I again used my gps and ventured off. Leaving time was 3:22 pm. Ok time for bed, I am slowly making progress!
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