Sunday, June 29, 2014

Golden Hinde

 This ship traveled around the world and then also made a voyage back to England bringing back a very surprising amount of sailors and riches. The captain of the Golden Hinde was Sir Francis Drake. This isn't the real but it's an exact replica. We were here for a one-night experience of being a Tudor sailor who would live on the ship. C and I were officers; the people in black were barber surgeons and the people in green were the gunners.









 War with the Spanish...


 Restless… awake. Snoring sailors! Also drunken yellers from the pub next door. There was a security guard for our sake on board. We slept on the gun deck next to "minions'' (basically a smaller sized cannon).



Friday, June 27, 2014

A Month in England

 Epping Forest. Forest jumping… 
 Water walking
 The queen's parade for the opening of parliament.
 The queen is in the left-hand side of the carriage.
 Great view of Buckingham Palace!


 Queen… again!


 Charles and Camilla

 Hot chocolate



 Wifi box!
 The London Eye on the River Thames
 Under Waterloo railway
 Poetry, by William Blake

 Swinging Jasmine



 Peacock, showing off
 Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-on-Avon
 Shakespeare's school

 Royal Shakespeare Company theatre

 The pub (The White Swan) in Stratford
 Candy shop with hundreds of candies
 Chicken field, practicing soccer


 Picnic at the B&B
 Guiting Power, the Cotswolds: Roman dig!
 Horse tooth (Roman)


 Iron nail (Roman or Anglo Saxon)

 Helping Tony do surveying (total station)



 Mom found the biggest find of that dig (not in size but in value and rarity): it's a Roman two-colored bead. The only other one like it from Archeoscan digs is one color.
 In the Cotswolds at our hotel

 Millenium Bridge. You may have seen it in Harry Poter 6 movie.
 I can't see! (G)
 Double toilets!
 The third Globe theatre. We watched Julius Caesar die.

 Shakespeare snake… I am the snake whisperer.

 British Museum. We saw the Rosetta stone.


 With my BFITWWW


 The Tower of London



 Changing of the Guards


 Hanging silver guy… Real person imitating a statue
 Covent Garden watching street magic

 The car is actually quite tiny if you couldn't tell...
 Trafalgar Square
 In the end we actually did reach each other (National Gallery)

 One of our cousins' dance class
 Visiting old friends (of mom's) in York





 The Shambles

 Jorvic Viking Center. They recreated the smells of actual viking stench… and it stinks. 
 Clifford's Tower (wanted to climb the bank but there was a sign that said no climbing)




 Fancy pants rich place. We live here… 

 Just kidding.


 Picnic in York

 Looking FIERCE (G)

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