Makenna managed to sleep very well yesterday and woke up around 7. We lounged around for a while watching Happy Feet and fighting with Makenna every 5 minutes so that we wouldn't have to change it. For some reason she gets board about 10 minutes into the show and wants something different. Anyway, we got about 30 minutes into it before we lost the battle and had to change it.
We went to McDonald's for breakfast and Makenna for some reason felt it necessary to spit out her milk down her front a couple of times. Once we got through that she managed to eat some pancakes with syrup which is the first time she has done that (syrup I mean).
We then headed down to the Hatfield House, which is the birthplace home of Queen Elizabeth. She was basically imprisoned there while Queen Mary (Henry VIII daughter) was in power, but when she died, Elizabeth was next in line. She was an interesting person, she apparently started the secret service. There is a famous picture of her in the house that has her with a robe with eyes and ears all over it and she is holding a rainbow because rainbows cannot exist without a sun...apparently, she is the sun. Anyway, the house is amazing with a lot of incredible art work and a lovely garden. Makenna enjoyed getting too close to the fountains and making her parent nervous, but she didn't fall in. There were about 10 or so rooms to see and it was full of armor and paintings. Makenna's favorite part was
the ramps on the steps to allow handicap and stroller access. She would walk up the steps and then run down the ramp saying "Whee!".After that, we decided to go to St. Alban's which was close by. There was supposed to be a Castle there, but we didn't see it, we did see the Cathedral though. On initially walking into it, there wasn't really much to see as the church was under repair and most of the statues were destroyed during after King Henry VIII ordered all Abby's to be shutdown. There was a large abbey there. I was a little disappointed to see all sorts of modern people replacing the statues that should be on the pedestals, people from all sorts of faiths. They were apparently done by the youth of the cathe
dral and were a bit out of place for such a sacred place, so I thought I would be really disappointed. But, was I wrong, there weren't any crypts or sarcophagus of ancient bishops, but what there was was the most amazing sculptured wall. It was really impressive with statues of all sorts of people I don't know, but a massive crucifix in the middle. I'll try to put something more on Sunday morning...with pictures.
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