Day 9 in the United Kingdom

We woke up at 9:00 A.M. and we were so grateful being able to finally get a decent night of sleep. Once we were all ready to leave, we went to go eat our breakfast. At first we were skeptical on eating a meal indigenous to any other country besides America. However, once we had our first bite of scones, we found that they were delicious and almost similar to a crescent roll you would have in America. After we finished eating our Scones and drinking our tea we paid the waiter £30 pounds and left to go to the Billiard match. Before we left for the match we did a little research on Billiards and we found out that Billiards originated in the UK and that the UK was the first country to make a governing body for the game. All though Billiards is not particularly popular in America it is much more popular in the UK. Billiards is played with two players in each match and in the match we watched the two players were Joe Atkinson and Jeff Dunham (not the comedian, a professional pool player). The Game involved many skillful moves that none of us could ever imagine doing, especially Scott, who was for a lack of better words, uncoordinated. The players began by seeing who would start off and begin the match. This was done by seeing which player could get their ball the closest to the opposite pocket to which they were standing towards without it actually going in. Because the game was Speed Pool Jeff got to start off and had to try to get in all his balls as fast as he could. Jeff managed to make a swift round and he got an almost record setting time of 45 seconds, compared to the record time of 43 seconds. Next it was Joe Atkinson's turn; he was fast as well but had a few slip-ups and was only able to get the balls in a mere 55 seconds. After the results were announced Jeff Dunham walked away with a two foot trophy and a whopping £1000 pounds. Once the match was over we went and ate Lunch at McDonalds, and then paid the McDonalds 35 pounds and took the rest of the day off for a leisurely stroll of the area. We learned many things in this one day like how Billiards can be quite hard and that it actually takes skill to play the game.
 
An actual Billiards Table at the professional match