Our Trip to ENGLAND

Well we're back from jolly old England, or rather I should say cold wet old England. We left Salt Lake on Tuesday morning, (Oct 28th), at 11:00 am and arrived in London at 8:00 am Wednesday morning. We met up with 3 other people, (from the company that Dave was doing a presentation for) in Atlanta and flew to England with them, and they rented a car and the 5 of us crowed into the car and drove from London to Bristol. Along the way, (a 4 hour drive), we stopped in Salisbury and had lunch and saw one of the 9 original Magna Cartas. VERY IMPRESSIVE. We were not allowed to take photos. The cathedral where the document is housed was moved to the site in the 1600's, and was so beautiful. From there we drove to Stonehenge. We arrived in Bristol around dinner time. It was very interesting to meet the different people attending the meeting in this area, from different countries. We had a lot of laughs.

On Thursday,while Dave was in meetings, I walked down to the train depot and went to the town of Bath, and took a tour of the ancient Roman bath houses and the country-side. It was a very interesting day, to discover how the Romans knew in 400AD the methods to build such a detailed bath house. I also toured Sally Lunn, the original bakery that made bread for the monastery, (when all the ovens were out-lawed). I also shopped the little shops and vendors. Then, I caught the train back to Bristol and met up with Dave and the group from his meeting, and we went to a French Restaurant for dinner. On Friday morning I walked around old Bristol town pier and took more photos.

Then on Friday afternoon, Dave and I got the train from Bristol to London. We arrived in London around 6:00pm, and took a taxi to our hotel. Then we hurried and changed for a dinner cruise. Very nice. On Saturday, we arose early at 6:00am, and got a Grey-line tour and tour around London. We saw the House of Parliament, Big Ben, the Buckingham Palace, Prince Charles and Camilla's house, the changing of the Guards, (impressive but not as impressive and the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier!!), The Tower of London, (this is where the crown jewels are all housed, (now that's an impressive site !!, sorry girls, they wouldn't let me take any photos), The Household Calvary, and so much more. We were really moving, and it rained that whole day. Then after a quick dinner, we did all of our souvenir shopping and packed our bags, for our early Sunday morning, (11/2) trip back home to the good old USA. We arrived home at 8:30 pm. And we were so exhausted. But it sure felt good to be back home and in our own beds again. But we wouldn't have missed the trip. We made new friends and have lots of photos and memories.