A Saturday afternoon in England
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Carianne and I went for an adventure to a park that had some hiking trails in it. We hiked out to a old mill and then decided to take a turn that we weren't completely sure where it led to. We ended getting lost, but it was tons of fun. We knew the general area of where we were, but it was still adventurous and we found our way back safe and sound. Here are videos of some sheep that we had fun with and the view of where we were :)
Sheep Video
Getting Lost Video (sorry about the noise, it was windy)
Pride and Prejudice
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Pemberly is Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice. In the long 5 hour version from A&E, Pemberly was filmed at Lyme Park. In the newer version with Kiera Knightly it is filmed at Chatsworth. The movie The Duchess was also filmed at Chatsworth. We got to visit both locations and they were truly beautiful estates! Lyme Park is owned by the government and is in the National Trust. Chatsworth is still home to the Duke and Duchess of somewhere that I can't remember, but they open part of their home to the public for tours and the grounds were open too! It was awesome!
The Lake District
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This was quite an adventurous day! We had made plans before we even came to England that we were going to spend a weekend in the Lake District, spending the night in a hostel somewhere. We booked our hostel the night before we went. When we got to the Lake District is was raining, hard, a lot. We had been planning on doing hikes, so that was sort of out. We then decided to go see the Beatrix Potter house (she wrote The Velveteen Rabbit). We got the visitor's center for the town that we had taken the train into, and found out that the house was closed that day. They were showing us some other things that we could do even thought the weather stunk. Michelle and I were immediately sold on the "Cars of the Stars" museum that was in a town about 45 minutes away. We jumped on the bus and got up to this town of Keswick. We were mostly excited about seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We take the bus up to the town and the museum end up being on this strange side street that we barely found. We go in and find out that we aren't allowed to take pictures, yeah right. We didn't just come all the way up there to see these famous cars and weren't going to take pictures. So we snuck some out of the pockets of our coats. :)
We wander around this town for a bit and find out that this is the place that pencils were invented and they had a Pencil Museum and the largest pencil in the world at 8 feet long, who knew? We also mosied over to the 007 James Bond Museum. It was owned by the same guy that owned Cars of the Stars so we figured we wouldn't be able to take pictures so we just went over and took pictures outside. When Michelle and I were done with our adventure in Keswick, the other girls had called us and said that they were going to cancel the hostel and go back to Huddersfield because of the rain. Michelle and I figured that would be fine. We got back to the bus stop to meet Carianne so we could go home together and we found this trail that ended leading up to a beautiful overview of a lake. We walked through a sheep field. When we finally got back on the train to go back to Huddersfield, we saw the Elders on the train. We talked with them for a while. They asked us if we knew a sister that was serving in their mission that had been in the nursing program at BYU. Carianne knew her because she had dated her brother at one point. SMALL WORLD!!!!! It was a crazy day but it was beautiful there and we got to see a lot!
Our crazy day:
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