England: March 19

Today was another long day. We started it off by going to Stonehenge. It was pretty cool to learn the various myths surrounding the stones. My favorite is that the devil dropped them while flying. It must have been a lot of work to put the stones together without modern technology. Nathan thought that how they connected the stones was interesting. At the top they fit like a ball joint and then there is a tongue and groove joint at the beam. It's hard to imagine how they built it without cranes. They said that one of the stones alone weighs as much as 7 elephants. It was pretty cool. Also only a portion of the rock is shown, the rest is underground.

Next on the list was Stourhead Gardens. If you have seen the Keira Knightly Pride and Prejudice, then you have seen Stourhead. The scene where she is running across a bridge in the rain and Mr Darcy states that he is in love with her was filmed there. So naturally we walked around the spacious gardens and visited the estate house. It was nice to get some fresh air and the views were amazing. The house was ok, to see. A bunch of books and paintings of dead people…I am so nice.

From the gardens we drove to Bath where we had a late lunch. This whole trip we have been eating breakfast at 8 and lunch at 3 and dinner at 9 I will be glad when we are on a normal schedule. Bath was such a cute city to visit. We walked around the Abby and outside of the baths. We did go into the Pump room which overlooks the ancient baths. We got a glass of the bath water which supposedly has healing powers. Does it work? Nathan who had not poo in four days said that one sip of the water led to a four day big poo 5 min later so it must work! We walked through the fashion museum and around the rest of the city before getting back on the road.

Our last stop was Oxford. We got there to late to see the city so we got sandwiches at the local super market for dinner. It was another long day but it was fun