Thursday 12th:
Today we took a train from Euston Station to Conwy, Wales. Luckily we didn’t have any issues finding the right train. The train ride was nice, I forced my dad to listen to my new ipod with me, no worries I played good oldies for him. That was my entertainment before I fell asleep. We arrived in Wales a little before 3pm. Conwy is a little town that is very cute. There is a castle with castle walls surrounding much of the town. We are staying in a little flat that has a small balcony with a view of the castle. I can also see the ocean and a river from our flat. We dropped our stuff off and went wandering around the town. We ended up eating dinner at a local fish and chips place. I think I have had my share of fish and chips and will now stick with other foods, probably hamburger. Jessica and I pretty much crashed after eating. We were extremely tired for some reason so we put in Madagascar and watched a movie in our little closet of a room. The flat has a down stairs with a living room and a kitchen and then the upstairs has a nugget room that can only fit bunk beds where Jessica and I sleep, a bathroom, and a master bedroom for my parents. Jessica soon decided she enjoyed imitating the lemur on Madagascar. She was pretty good at doing the voice, but after about the 20th time she continued to get worse.
Friday 13th:
Today we went to the Conwy Castle. It was build for more of a fort type of castle to protect people or fight off other people rather than for the royalty to live in. It was really old and cool to walk through. Apparently it wasn’t made for very tall people either because I hit my head on one of the entrances. Jessica thought it was quite funny, it wasn’t. Most of the ceiling was gone, except for a couple archways. It was sort of hard to imagine what it looked like back in the day, but I’m sure it was fancy. After wandering the castle we went to eat at a local place and then found a bus that took us to Betws y Coed. The roads are so narrow around here that it is more like a death trap when you’re on a bus. Some of the roads look more like a one way road, although many times a car will be coming right at us. The scenery was pretty, there are literally sheep everywhere. The lambs are the cutest and the bigger sheep have ugly tails. Since it was a chilly day and kind of dreary outside we wandered around Betws y Coed and decided to go to a little place for afternoon tea. Actually, we all got hot chocolate. J My mom got her fruit scone and clotted cream, which she had been wanting the whole time she has been in the U.K. We looked around in the little Welsh shops and walked along a river than ran through the town. Then we headed back to Conwy. Right now we are sitting in our living room, listening to some MJ and figuring out our day for tomorrow.
Saturday 14th:
Today we took a trip to Caernarfon which is east of Conwy just past Bangor. We took a bus on this trip, the morning bus took us all the way there which was about an hours trek. This bus ride was fairly normal compared with the bus ride we took in the afternoon. We went through many little nugget towns on the way there, and we saw lots and lots of sheep. Caernarfon is a smallish town that had more ‘townies’ than I am used to seeing. We went to the castle in the middle of town which as much bigger than the Conwy castle. It is better preserved too and had more rooms and such that we could go into. This castle is where Edward the prince of wales was crowed in 19599? At the castle we saw the cutest little boy with red curly hair. He was dressed as a Knight and was running around with his sword hitting random things. At certain times he would fall over pretending he had been wounded. No worries I took a picture as he was definitely part of our entertainment for the day.
After the castle we ate at a local pub, which was showing the Manchester United vs. Liverpool football match. We all got the bacon cheeseburgers, sound good right? Wrong. They tasted a little funny and definitely not like our Iowa beef. Anyway, after lunch we proceeded to wander around the little Welsh town, going in and out of random little shops. Many of the locals actually spoke Welsh, I understood none of it. After enough ‘shopping’ we found our bus home aka to Conwy. We hopped on the first bus that was going the general direction of Conwy, this one stopped in Bangor and then we would have to switch to a different bus. This first bus was full of local crazies. We had one woman who was talking to herself, angrily I might add, something about her daughter and how she had be pregnant for 9 months, yada, yada. There was also another man who continued to talk/annoy the bus driver and then speak in Welsh to a random girl. The third was a younger boy who was talking about how he was out on bail right now and the final man was intoxicated and his pants were falling down. Luckily the trip to Bangor was the shortest leg of our trip. We got off that bus as fast as we could and found our next one without a problem and not full of crazies.
For our last evening in Wales, we went out to eat at a pizza and pasta restaurant down the street. It was very tasty and we all ended up getting meals we enjoyed. We finished the weekend by watching Madagascar... again. Jessica has become very fond of that movie. Tomorrow we take a train back into London.
Saturday 15th:
We made it back to London safely! Today was a beautiful day. Once the Rabe's hauled their luggage to Vandon, we set out to find some lunch. We decided to grab a quick sandwich and then take it to a park to eat. All of the parks were filled with people on this lovely Sunday afternoon so there weren't many benches available. Once we saw one, we grabbed it. After eating we just wandered around Green Park and then over to Hyde Park. Some of the flowers are blooming so it is extra pretty. After my family finished packing, I took them to eat at Albert's which is a pub just down the street. It is a really cute pub and our last meal was definitely a good one. Tomorrow will be another early morning and is also my sister's birthday.
Happy Birthday Jessica!!
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