24 and 25 of May

Whew! Sorry about the late blog post but the internet was down yesterday here at Regents all day, so I was not able to do my daily post. But we now have it back and I will go over yesterdays and todays adventures.

So for 24 May 2010 we had an adventure to Windsor where we toured Windsor Castle. We had to take two trains to get there. One went from Paddington to Slough (Slow, with the 'ow') and then took another, smaller five minute train ride from Slough to Windsor. Fortunately, it was a nice day out however, hot. We took a tour of Windsor seeing the Castle and St. George's Chapel with a small view of Prince Albert's Chapel.Unfortunately, we could not take pictures anywhere in the castle or in either of the chapels. The architecture in both chapels was astounding. We also got a glimpse of the Queen Mum's Tomb. Also buried in St. George's Chapel was King Henry VIII and Princess Margaret. Lucky for us, we also got a glimpse of the changing of the Guard. It was quite a spectacle because there was so much involved and the soldiers had to follow procedure exactly. On the whole that day was good, and I really enjoyed watching the changing of the guard and the tour of Windsor Castle.

25 May 2010 we took a train to York from Kings Cross station. It was about a two hour ride to York. It was slightly chilly today so the walk from the train station to the open air tour bus was a little breezy. We took a tour from the bus all around York, seeing the walls that the Romans had built around the original perimeter of York. We also saw old churches, and places that the Vikings had built on but were built over by more modern builidings. After the bus tour, which was about an hour, we took a walk over to get some lunch. There we ate Yorkshire pudding, which was fabulous, and we celebrated Melissa's birthday. With fully bellies, we then went to a museum which was set in Victorian Era, and onwards to about the 1950's. It was a beautiful museum. There was a massive set of what a Victorian street would have looked like and there were smaller sets of what individual rooms would have looked like. It was phenomenal to look at all of those rooms and think that people actually would have lived in something similar. After that, we all left the museum to get the 3 35pm train back to London. It was a good day despite the weather.

Until tomorrow, we shall see whats in store....