Welcome to Chapter 2 in the Weekend in England chronicle! For those just joining us, I'm sharing all the pics and stories piece by piece. The weekend was packed with Britishy goodness and there is a lot to share!
NOTE: Due to unknown causes I've got Barry Manilow on the brain this morning. But I'm doing my best to shake it off and get into a Englisher state of mind. ("Englisher"...yep, I can do that)
Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking....
To recap, Shayna and I met up in Bristol and drove straight to Bath. The blog--jam-packed with photos of that-- can be found here.
After a morning in the town of Bath we drove to Stonehenge, which is about an hour southeast. In a field. A big field. With nothing else around. Bar cows. There were cows. And rain. Oh, there was wind and rain!
NOTE: Due to unknown causes I've got Barry Manilow on the brain this morning. But I'm doing my best to shake it off and get into a Englisher state of mind. ("Englisher"...yep, I can do that)
Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking....
To recap, Shayna and I met up in Bristol and drove straight to Bath. The blog--jam-packed with photos of that-- can be found here.
After a morning in the town of Bath we drove to Stonehenge, which is about an hour southeast. In a field. A big field. With nothing else around. Bar cows. There were cows. And rain. Oh, there was wind and rain!
Oh Stonehenge, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking...but I pushed you away...
You pull up in a field, pay £6.50 (yep, that's $13) to a gal in a trailer and head into a fenced off field with Stonehenge sitting it it. It's relatively surreal. One minute you're in the endless English countryside, the next you're staring at Stonehenge...in the endless English countryside.
Then you walk a path around the stones--no touching!--and snap some photos.
Then you walk a path around the stones--no touching!--and snap some photos.
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I'm looking at these photos now going, "holy cow I was at Stonehenge". But at the time it was extremely underwhelming. I can't stress enough how it looks like a lump of rocks in a field on the side of the highway. But the photos make me realize how amazing it is. How ancient it is!
And then there was the wind and rain. Shayna and I tried desperately to get some photos of the 2 of us, but the wind and piercing rain was making me go all Gilbert Gottfried squinty.
Oh Gilbert, you came and you gave without taking....
You thought I was exagerrating, didn't you.
LOL Medusa bangs.
Shayna is visibly laughing at me at this stage.
We were half frozen, but we stopped and got hot cocoa on the way out and it warmed us right up.
Hot cocoa...you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
Oh boy, this is a bad case of the Manilows. I can see what kind of Wednesday this is going to be.
You thought I was exagerrating, didn't you.
LOL Medusa bangs.
Shayna is visibly laughing at me at this stage.
LOL, and Shayna looks great (in the last one she's shouting "STONEHENGE!") But between my Medusa hair and Gottfried squint, this photo op was not meant to be.
We were half frozen, but we stopped and got hot cocoa on the way out and it warmed us right up.
Hot cocoa...you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
Oh boy, this is a bad case of the Manilows. I can see what kind of Wednesday this is going to be.
Well before I knew it we were gone! 10 minutes in a field with some of the oldest architecture on the planet, and then we were off down the road, heading north to Stratford-upon-Avon.
But more on that in Part 3. :)
Ah Manilow... I had NO idea you were a Fanilow Kate!
ReplyDeleteThose pics of you and Shayna made my Wednesday morning. Bless you.