Mike, the girls and I just got back from the land of the Chesire cat. Yesiree, we sure did. Fortunately, there was a lot more to it than that. One of our best discoveries was the Cheshire Ice Cream Farm. The flavors were fantastic and the ice cream delicious! It's hard to admit, but it is definitely better than Blue Bell, which is the best ice cream in the country. Well, that's what their song says, but we're pretty sure it's only sold in Texas. Cheshire Farm raises their own chickens for the eggs and cows for milking, all to make the tastiest ice cream ever. Our favorite flavor so far is Banoffi, which stems from a popular english dessert. A couple of other good ones are sticky toffee pudding (also a popular english dessert) and licorice & black current. Grandpa Dick would've gone crazy trying out all of the red ones!
For some reason, we were really popular with the cows!
Beeston Castle--Mike is so gung-ho about these castles that we have become official members of the National Trust. I know. Pretty impressive. The amazing thing about the Brits is that they are undeterred by an sort of weather. While we were hiking it started raining (shocking). Mike, the girls and I immediately put up umbrellas and started hoofing it back down the mountain at a quick pace. As we hustled to safety (which in this case meant the protection of a roof and a dry warm building), we passed all sorts of people just meandering up the slope without a care in the world.
We definitely need to get used to all of the rain!
Beeston Castle--Mike is so gung-ho about these castles that we have become official members of the National Trust. I know. Pretty impressive. The amazing thing about the Brits is that they are undeterred by an sort of weather. While we were hiking it started raining (shocking). Mike, the girls and I immediately put up umbrellas and started hoofing it back down the mountain at a quick pace. As we hustled to safety (which in this case meant the protection of a roof and a dry warm building), we passed all sorts of people just meandering up the slope without a care in the world. We definitely need to get used to all of the rain!
Beeston Castle, Cheshire
The city of Chester was fun to explore. It is famous for it's Roman ruins, which I have to admit were pretty few and far between, and the "Rows", which are charming buildings full of all sorts of fun shops....they are layered and go on forever. But the city itself was charming and we loved our tiny....and by tiny I mean miniscule...little flat which was smushed between Henry Harbinger's Sandwich shop and Ye Old Custom House Pub!
The best part of our weekend: CONWY CASTLE, WALES
Absolutely gorgeous, stunning, breathtaking!
Way to post Marcee! Those pictures truly are breathtaking...wow...how lucky are you guys to get to see all of these things in person!!! Living in Seattle, I totally get the rain thing. In fact, Seattle-ites joke that you can tell either someone is visiting or just moved here when they carry around an umbrella. Just wait, you guys will be the same pretty soon. Sure love you all!
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