First weekend

Our first weekend trip: We drove to Stonehenge and the city of Bath on Sunday. Stonehenge, of course, very cool. Really quite unreal. We kept looking around going, wow, we're at Stonehenge? The place that's only on my computer screen-saver or on the History channel? How is this possible? I blame it on the jet-lag. Anyway, it's only about a 45 minute drive from us, so for those of you who want to visit, that's easily a morning trip. We purchased a membership to the English Heritage foundation, which will get us in for free to tons of places throughout the UK. It's well-worth the cost.

We wandered further into the countryside and made our way to Bath, where, obviously, the Roman baths were once located. It's a beautiful city, lots of Roman architecture, right on the river. We didn't spend much time there because the kids were getting tired and we had a long drive home.

We hit our first castle ruins on the way back. Cool stuff, but a bit creepy in the crypt with coffins of really old, really dead, people laying right out there.