Stonehenge!
I'll post my pictures from the Museum of Childhood at another time, if anyone is interested, but there are a lot of them and I should be asleep right now! So I will just post my pictures from Sunday's trip to Stonehenge and the Cathedral in Salisbury instead.
IT WAS FREEZING OUT! AND VERY WINDY!
Be patient. There are a lot of pictures!
Stonehenge took like a thousand years to build, those crazy kids. We know the rocks on the outside work out with the sunrise and sunset on the solstices, but the stones in the middle don't really work with anything that we can figure out. No one wrote anything down! There must be a lesson in there...
There are something like 230 burial mounds surrounding the Stonehenge site. There's one person in each one, and they've got no idea who they were either.
A bird on the rock. No one else is allowed that close anymore. :(
This is the rock that used to work with the sunrise/sunset thing. It's the "entrance rock" and it's right next to the highway now.
I needed to change batteries. So these are Cyndy's pics of the Cathedral from the outside.
The spire on this church is supposed to be the tallest one in Europe.
It's actually crooked, and it leans towards the restaurant in the Cathedral. Thus, they put in a glass roof.
There are some scary things in that place. I can handle all the people buried in the floor and walls (over a thousand skeletons in that giant building!), but these were the two freakiest parts:
There was a tomb built for this couple, but there was never anything written on the part that's supposed to talk about how nice people they were. It was left blank and the family was pissed, I'm sure. But, alas.
The woman/wife is haunted or something. One foot is warm and the other is freezing cold. We all touched it, so you would think that all the hands touching the cold foot would warm it up, but nope. One warm, one frozen.
And if you're afraid of many of the same thing I am, like SCARY ANOREXIC PAPER MACHE ANGELS WITH BLACK SOULLESS EYES... don't scroll down. This was hanging over a creche scene with rainbow pridey bunting all around it.
What. The. Heck?
As we walked through Salisbury, we realized that everything closes on Sunday there too. Well, Woolworths was open. But that was about it.
The river was pretty, and you can see the huge mother of a spire all the way across town.
AND.
This is the best part.
We walked by this, not really noticing the sign or anything. Then I read it. And realized what it was.
The BH is in England! But classier!
It was very, very odd.
Did all that, and I bought a Tshirt. A child's medium, £7. It's got like, tour dates on the back. STILL STANDING! WOOT! <3
I'm going to Bath this weekend, I'm not really sure what that entails. But I bought tickets to see Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley (sorry, mum & family; I don't expect you to know who they are or why this is completely AWESOME!) a couple of days after my birthday in London, so I'm pretty jazzed about that. Also, there was CHEESE CAPPALETTI in the dining hall at lunch today. I had thirds. It was wonderful.
If anyone would like post cards, of which I bought in bulk in London this weekend, I have 10 open spaces right now. Email me your addresses or leave them in the comments, and you WILL get a card. Most of them are generic London scenes but they're still pretty cute. The first three will get the best cards! :)
And on that note: It's 1:30am. Oi. Goodnight, all. Much love!
IT WAS FREEZING OUT! AND VERY WINDY!
Be patient. There are a lot of pictures!
Stonehenge took like a thousand years to build, those crazy kids. We know the rocks on the outside work out with the sunrise and sunset on the solstices, but the stones in the middle don't really work with anything that we can figure out. No one wrote anything down! There must be a lesson in there...
There are something like 230 burial mounds surrounding the Stonehenge site. There's one person in each one, and they've got no idea who they were either.
A bird on the rock. No one else is allowed that close anymore. :(
This is the rock that used to work with the sunrise/sunset thing. It's the "entrance rock" and it's right next to the highway now.
I needed to change batteries. So these are Cyndy's pics of the Cathedral from the outside.
The spire on this church is supposed to be the tallest one in Europe.
It's actually crooked, and it leans towards the restaurant in the Cathedral. Thus, they put in a glass roof.
There are some scary things in that place. I can handle all the people buried in the floor and walls (over a thousand skeletons in that giant building!), but these were the two freakiest parts:
There was a tomb built for this couple, but there was never anything written on the part that's supposed to talk about how nice people they were. It was left blank and the family was pissed, I'm sure. But, alas.
The woman/wife is haunted or something. One foot is warm and the other is freezing cold. We all touched it, so you would think that all the hands touching the cold foot would warm it up, but nope. One warm, one frozen.
And if you're afraid of many of the same thing I am, like SCARY ANOREXIC PAPER MACHE ANGELS WITH BLACK SOULLESS EYES... don't scroll down. This was hanging over a creche scene with rainbow pridey bunting all around it.
What. The. Heck?
As we walked through Salisbury, we realized that everything closes on Sunday there too. Well, Woolworths was open. But that was about it.
The river was pretty, and you can see the huge mother of a spire all the way across town.
AND.
This is the best part.
We walked by this, not really noticing the sign or anything. Then I read it. And realized what it was.
The BH is in England! But classier!
It was very, very odd.
Did all that, and I bought a Tshirt. A child's medium, £7. It's got like, tour dates on the back. STILL STANDING! WOOT! <3
I'm going to Bath this weekend, I'm not really sure what that entails. But I bought tickets to see Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley (sorry, mum & family; I don't expect you to know who they are or why this is completely AWESOME!) a couple of days after my birthday in London, so I'm pretty jazzed about that. Also, there was CHEESE CAPPALETTI in the dining hall at lunch today. I had thirds. It was wonderful.
If anyone would like post cards, of which I bought in bulk in London this weekend, I have 10 open spaces right now. Email me your addresses or leave them in the comments, and you WILL get a card. Most of them are generic London scenes but they're still pretty cute. The first three will get the best cards! :)
And on that note: It's 1:30am. Oi. Goodnight, all. Much love!