Field trip! We had to wake up at the butt crack of dawn and get on a huge coach. We left around 7:30am and drove to Stonehenge! I was very excited to go there! I really liked it. Others expressed disappointment, because it did not meet their expectations. I don’t know what they were expecting, because it was very cool. I still think it was created by aliens. It was raining and snowing off and on, and I was freezing.
After Stonehenge we drove to Salisbury Cathedral. I love this cathedral. Love it so much more than St. Paul’s. I like how old it is. It has the tallest spire out of all of the medieval cathedrals across Europe. The arches in it are beautiful. I especially love the lighting that comes through the stained glass windows. The low light with the orangish glow is my absolute favorite to take photos in.
We then drove to Bath. Bath is a very beautiful town. We went to the Roman bath houses. They were fascinating! The water didn’t look very good though. It was murky green and smelled. We went to the Pump Room and had a class of the “cleansing” mineral water that comes directly from the Bath underground water sources. It tasted awful. I took one sip and gagged. Haha I then took a second sip to see if it got any better. Trust me, it doesn’t. It was a lot of fun though, walking through the steam rising from the huge pools. A great piece of history. Especially since we are soon going to read Northanger Abbey, and a good portion of the book takes place in Bath. We then went to Bath Abbey. It was beautiful. We also went up to the old assembly halls.
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Haha… kind of random, but apparently Nicholas Cage owns a home in Bath, so we found it and looked inside the windows. No one was home of course, but it was still cool. What I don’t understand, is that if he is having such financial troubles, why does he still have so many properties… he’s not even living in them!? Seems silly.
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