Yesterday was a very long but interesting day. We had to leave at 7:30 am to get on a two and a half hour bus ride to Warwick Castle. It wasn't too bad though because the view on the drive was beautiful. While most of the people were asleep, I was mesmerized by how beautiful and green the backcountry of England is. It was fun to see a castle for the first time and it was Warwick castle's 1100th anniversary too so that was exciting and crazy that it is that old. Here are some pictures of the me at the castle:
They had a lot of actors walking around. This guy took forever to open the gate for us because he was telling us like a thirty minute history of why the gate was so important back in the day.
It was a very commercialized castle. They had actors and games everywhere for kids. I just thought this guy looked funny in his costume.
These are wax figures. They had them everywhere. Sometimes, they looked pretty real and it kind of freaked me out.
It's been raining all this week, but it makes the grass look so beautiful.
They had a bald eagle sitting here. I have no idea why but they did and it was cool haha.
View from the top of the castle
After walking abound the castle for a while, we got back on the bus and went to see Anne Hathaway's house. Not the actor Anne Hathaway but Shakespeare's wife haha.
These were the gardens in the backyard of Anne's cottage.
I have no idea what those feather things are but they looked cool.
This is a picture of the outside of where Anne Hathaway grew up.
After that, we went to Anne Hathaway's mother's farm. It is still a functioning farm today. They also had actors walking around dressed up pretending to do chores. It reminded me when I volunteered at This is the Place Monument and had to dress up like a pioneer and pretend to do things haha.
This was an owl they had. He was too cool to look and smile at the camera.
After the farm, we went to Stratford and walked around and saw where Shakespeare lived and grew up. We also tried fish and chips for the first time. It wasn't terrible, but it was so greasy and didn't have much flavor but at least I did it and can check it off my list.
These are a few pictures of his house he grew up in.
This is where Shakespeare lived close to his death.
We started walking down the street to Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried.
These are some graves outside the church.
This is the outside of the church.
This is Shakespeare's grave. He must have been a short man because the grave was not that long at all.
This is his wife Anne's grave who is buried right next to him
After visiting his grave, we got to go see a play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, one of the most prestigious companies in the world. The play was Henry the IV Part I. It wasn't he most thrilling story, but the acting was really great. It was funny looking at the audience because the average age in there was about 85 years old. We were the youngest there by about 50 or 60 years. The play was good, but very long. It was about three hours and it started at 7:15 and we still had a 2 1/2 hour drive back home. We got home about one in the morning and one of my professors has a cold so he cancelled his class so we didn't have to get up until ten o clock so that was nice.
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