ENGLAND PART 3

The best part about our trip to England was that there were no interruptions. No TV. No internet. Not phones. It was wonderful. We were together all day everyday and WE LOVED IT. I realize this was not reality but it was fun for two weeks.

This will be the last group of pictures, so I hope you enjoy!

The Peak District was another area that I was pumped to go to. (Thank you Jane Austen!) Little did I know that we would stumble on the exact spot where both the new and old Pride and Prejudice were filmed. The EXACT area where Elizabeth stood. I was a little nervous climbing up to this area so Sterling posed for the picture. (The peaks were pretty intense and it was windy.)


Next we headed to Chatsworth. This is where they filmed Pemberly in the new Pride and Prejudice and they think that Chatsworth is what inspired Jane Austen's Pemberly.



The floors were just as cute in real life.


They have the bust of Mr. Darcy from the movie.


The gardens were beautiful. We walked all around them for a long time. Sterling Henry was sitting on the grass and I was throwing bread to these ducks so they would come close to him. It was really cute until one the the monsters BIT HIS TOE! I seriously wanted to kick it but decided to console my frightened child instead. NEVER AGAIN DUCKS!!!


We stayed in the town where Shakespeare was buried and went to the church the next day. It was pretty cool to see his grave. (Sterling Henry was really into it if you can't tell.)


This was a cute street close to the Shakespeare church.

Next we went to Warwick. This is as close as we got. It was an awesome castle but had been turned into a super expensive kind of dungeon and dragons theme park for kids, so we only took a picture from the outside. We don't feel cheated one bit!


Blenheim Palace was our next stop. This was the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

The next day we went to LONDON. We left London to the end for good reason. We knew we would wear ourselves out and wanted to do that last. The first place we headed was the British Museum. This was probably one of my favorites places we went. It was packed full of such amazing things like the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles, the beautiful sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens.

The place was also packed for a Egyptian paintings and statutes and even had a mummy of Cleopatra (a Cleopatra, not the Cleopatra). I was completely blown away by how much they had.


We also went to the British Library where I was able to see Jane Austen's personal journals and some of her correspondences and the British National Gallery. Trafalgar square was pretty exciting also. Here is Sterling with the huge monument they have for Lord Nelson.


I loved seeing Big Ben.


The next day we went to the Tower of London. The Tower had so many interesting parts. Seeing the Crown Jewels were a definite highlight.

A bridge next to the tower.


One of the coolest things we did in London was climb to the top of the St. Pauls's Cathedral. It almost killed me but it was worth it. From the top we could see all of London.


Westminster was everything I had hoped it would be. I loved it. We went to a service and really enjoyed it... plus it was free that way!


On the last day we went to the Kew Gardens. They were really beautiful and it was nice to be out of the city.

Our last site we saw was Hampton Court. I thought that Hampton Court was beautiful. It was interesting to see parts from the real Tudor world. Who knew they ate so well???


The gardens there were the most pristine gardens we saw on the trip. I loved them. They were so organized and well kept.

I am sad our trip is over but will never forget all the fabulous memories that we made. Sterling starts work on Tuesday so we are ready to start real life again.

I am almost 20 weeks along and we will find out what we are having this week. This pregnancy has gone by so fast. We are looking forward to being home for a while and getting ready for number 2.