My UK Holiday!

I had so much fun on my vacation!!! On our second day in Cardiff Jeanne walked us around the city. The city of Cardiff is wonderful. It's big enough so that there are many places to eat and shop (there is so much shopping!!), but small enough so that you can get where ever you need by foot. Where we were situated in the city we could easily walk to the train station, the grocery store, and the park. We did a lot of walking that day because we went over to the bay area. There is so much to do there and we went on a really nice day. By the time we got over to the other side of the bay, the sun was shining and the water glistened!
 

A shopping arcade. Anything you want, you can probably find here.

The Royal Arcade.

Street view of Cardiff. If you look to the end you can see the Cardiff Castle.

Colorful fruit stand :)



We walked to the other side of the bay where we could see the entire waterfront.

View from the apartment.

On our third day in Cardiff we went to Saint Fagan's National History Museum. It is one of Europe's leading open-air museums and Wale's most popular heritage attraction. It was very interesting learn more about their history. I especially liked the gardens in front of the St. Fagan's "Castle", which looked more like a large house to me.

St Fagan's Castle

After walking around for a bit we went and
 had tea and scones with jam and cream

One of the historic houses.

 On our fourth day in Cardiff we took a train to Salisbury, England. There we had lunch at a place called The Mill and then Taylor and I went on the Stonehenge tour bus! There were so many people at Stonehenge! We were given audio guides that we could listen to; it told us all about the history and the theories to why it was built. Here are some pictures of our time there.

Our fifth day in Cardiff was pretty relaxing. We did some shopping in the city. We also picked up food from the grocery store to make Jeanne and John some dinner. We made a Swedish dish called Flying Jacob! It is a mixture of cream, chili sauce, bananas, chicken, mushroom, and peanuts all served on top of rice. It was pretty good, if I do say so myself. We did have some minor technical difficulties on the way (had to start over on the rice and add milk and gravy to even out the heat from the chili sauce), but they both really liked it...at least they said they did, haha. After dinner we fancied ourselves up to go see Grease at the Millennium Theatre. It was opening night and the theater was packed! It was a great show!

 The next day we boarded a train back to London. We ate a really great lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe then we headed over to the London Dungeon. Taylor and I got discount tickets to see the London Dungeon and Madame Tousauds Wax Museum. The London Dungeon is a 90 minute guide through the scary history of London. There were rides and live shows. Some were better than others but it was all pretty frightening because you didn't know what to expect around the dark corners you were passing through. The last ride was by far the most memorable! You were strapped into some seats that brought you straight up in the air to where your sentence is read at the gallows. It dropped you straight down so that you were airborne for a split second and they took your picture. It was so funny that we had to buy it!

We then went over to the wax museum where I got to take pictures with the President, Prince William, the pope, Beyonce, Audrey Hepburn, and more!

On our last day in London we went to the Natural History Museum for an hour. We saw a giant blue whale and many different mammals. There were hundreds to see. We went into a bug exhibit, an ecology exhibit, and an exhibit that showed the evolution of humans. I could have stayed there for the entire day; there was so much to see. Unfortunately, we only had time for about half of the museum, but it gives me something to look forward to on my next visit! :)

I had a wonderful time in London and Cardiff! It's a trip that I will never forget and I am so thankful for everything that Jeanne and John did for Taylor and me. We saw so much while we were there and I can't wait to go back and see some more!

I had promised a picture of the streaker from our first day in Cardiff. Here it is! We tried to enhance it as best we could, but it was raining and he was running so it turned out a bit blurry. He is definitely naked even though you can't really tell! haha