As not too much happened out of the norm today, I thought I would write about some things I thought were interesting about yesterday's trip.
The Hatfield House was very nice, and they actually had a lot of costumes from the movie "Elizabeth" with Cate Blanchett. I guess they were her costumes and it shows how tiny she is. Some of the books in the library area of the house were extremely old and worn looking. Of course, going into any area with books and Makenna is a danger zone as she loves books and looking at books. Even if it has no pictures, she'll look at it.
The one thing I thought that was really neat was that they had a scroll there that when unrolled would show the family history of the queen Elizabeth all the way back to Adam & Eve. I find that hard to believe, but Chris said that a lot of the kings and queens had that type of lineage written down. It's too bad that we, in this day, can't quite make it back that far in our family trees.
I understand why they won't let us take pictures in some of these places but it's unfortunate as a lot of these places are really neat to just take all in and see the history and the paintings are just phenomenal. A lot of pictures at this place were of Adam and Eve. They had modern photos of the current Marquess of Salisbury (whatever that means), who own the house.
As for the Cathedral, it wasn't as "ornate" like Chris said yesterday and I have never heard of Saint Alban. The boys choir was neat to listen to. They are in the middle of a lot of restoration of the church so I think that's what detracted from a lot of what it had to offer. Makenna loved it, as Chris mentioned yesterday, due to the ramps. She pretty much could've worn herself out going up the steps and running down the ramps.
There was actually a lot of people around the outside of the church, mostly teenagers. I think it was kind of like a park of sorts outside for people to sit and picnic, and being that it was a very nice day, there were a lot of people out.
We did get to see the police come up to one drunk "kid" (probably in his early 20's) and take his can of beer and pour it out and talk to him about how much he's had and how long he's been drinking. Not sure if they happened to be in the area or if someone called them. He was just sitting outside by himself when we saw him. Not sure what the laws about open container are over here but it's not like I'll find out from personal experience.
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