The Roman Baths

The Abbey in Bath

THE ABBEY IN BATH
ROMAN BATHS TO THE LEFT
COLLEEN LOOKING LIKE A TOURI.......LOL

TIM OUR PHOTOGRAPHER (hee hee) COOL ARK IN THE BACKGROUND

Bath, England

Driving into the city

Bath is in Somerset in the Southwest of England. It is Britains only Hot water Spring. The Abbey is next door to the Roman Baths. I have to say it is beautiful and amazing how the Romans built this town

Woodhenge

Co and Tim striking a pose.
Do we look a little cold? Just a little but it's fall!
a tombstone in the middle of the circle, hmmm....... I wonder if there's really a body under there?
There's the car park and Colleen with my baby Subaru ( he's looking British) Refering to my car with my crazy long license plate. Maybe I will call him Oli. I love my Oli.

So here we are having the whole place to ourselves for a few minutes. No tour buses and no fee to get in. It is surrounded by a little wooden fence. So we got our pictures in and then headed of to the Roman Baths in Bath, England which was an hours drive northwest from Wiltshire.

woodhenge September 11,2008

A 2 mile drive down the road and we arrived at Woodhenge. It sat on the corner lot of a old back road and across of it was a little car park with dirt that could fit maybe 4 cars.

So as you can see from the concrete in the ground they replaced the wood beams because they rotted since it was over 2000 years ago.

You can see a circular ditch and bank that surrounds the henge. They believed that this site was build way before Stonehenge but now they are thinking it was build around the same time give or take a couple hundred years.

I heard something like they believed that the people would make a pilgrimage to one of the henge's during the summer solstice and another during the winter solstice. The thought behind the wood henge is that this represented our life on earth now, being temporal and the stones at Stonehenge represented the eternal life being incorruptible.

Woodhenge

STONEHENGE SEPTEMBER 11TH 2008

I KNOW THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME BUT WE HAD 3 CAMERA'S AND ALSO WE TOOK PICTURES FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. YOU CAN'T GET BORED LOOKING AT THESE ROCKS THEY ARE VERY FASCINATING. TOO BAD THEY WON'T LET YOU TOUCH THEM ANYMORE.

TIM, COLLEEN AND SEAN

YES IT WAS CLOUDY AND RAINING

SEAN AND I IN THE WIND AND RAIN. IT WAS COLD BUT TYPICAL WEATHER HERE SO YOU JUST HAVE TO GRIN AND BARE IT. IT KEEPS ALOT OF TOURIST AWAY SO THERE WASN'T A LINE TO GO IN. YOU GET YOUR AUDIO TOUR GUIDE AS YOU WALK AROUND THE HENGE.

STONEHENGE

LOOK AHEAD IN THE BACK GROUND, CAN YOU SEE IT AS WE DRIVE. VERY EXCITING EVEN THOUGH IT'S JUST SOME EXTREMELY LARGE STONES IT IS SUCH A COOL SITE.

I WAS EXCITED TO ACTUALLY SEE THEM WITH MY OWN EYES ESPECIALLY SINCE I HAVE BEEN WATCHING ALOT OF NEW DOCUMENTARIES ON STONEHENGE AND WOOD HENGE!!

FIRST DAY OF MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGHSCHOOL

THIS IS KIND OF RANDOM BUT I FORGOT TO POST THESE PICTURES

THE BOYS WAITING FOR THE BUS TO PULL UP. THEY STARTED SCHOOL ON SEPTEMBER 25TH.
THEY GET TO RIDE TO SCHOOL ON THESE NICE COACH BUSES BUT THIS ONE PICKED THEM UP LAST WEEK LOOKED BRAND NEW AND HAD BLACK LEATHER SEATS. THEY ONLY GOT TO RIDE IT TWICE AND THEN IT WAS BACK TO THE WHITE COACH WITH CLOTH SEATS. OH WELL I GUESS THAT STILL BEATS THE YELLOW SCHOOL BUS. THEY ATTEND THE SAME SCHOOL.

PUB FOOD

CO AND TIM ABOUT TO ENJOY THEIR LUNCH

BANGERS AND MASH!

QUEENS HEAD 400 YEAR OLD PUB

THIS PUB WAS DONE THE STREET FROM THE AUDLEY HOUSE SO WE DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY. IT WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD, WE ENJOYED IT.

OUTSIDE AUDLEY END HOUSE

TOP: COLLEEN AND I ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE LIKE MY SISTER. ALTHOUGH FOR THE MOMENT I TEND TO BE LIKE MY BOYS AND LOVE BEING IN MY HOODIES AND BLUE JEANS. POOR KIMO, HE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE 4 LITTLE BOYS!

MIDDLE: THESE COW HEAD THINGS WHERE AT THE TOP OF THE GATE POST. THEY WERE PRETTY COOL LOOKING.

BOTTOM: COLLEEN, KIMO AND I MAKING LIKE WE HAD JUST EXPERIENCED SEEING THE GROUNDS OF THE AUDLEY END HOUSE WHEN REALLY ALL WE GOT TO SEE WAS IT FROM THE SIDE OF THE ROAD! SHUCKS MAYBE NEXT WEEK WE WILL GO BACK TO VISIT.

Posing infront of the Gate

So like I said we drove about an hour and found out that they were closed. Hmmmm.............That's what happens when you have Candice and Tim read directions and plan together. It's hilarious really because I read the hours to Tim from the book and we both thought that when they said open Wednesday thru Sunday we thought they were referring to the days they had guided tours. Needless to say we did not get to go in but we did manage to find a 4oo year old pub to fill our bellies!!! No need to waste the drive out there right!

September 9th 2008

So we drove out about an hour away to visit The Audley End House. Sir Thomas Audley was given the lands of Walden Abbey by Henry VIII, and adapted the abbey buildings as his mansion. His grandson Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, rebuilt this mansion in 1603 and 1614. The new Audley End was truly palatial in scal, but Suffolk fell from power after 1618.