This weekend I rented a Volkswagon van to cruise across the country. Saturday morning I got everyone up bright and early and we jumped in the van. We drove through Bristol and Bath and stopped at Stonehenge. Since I had already been to Stonehenge I went out to the burial mounds with mom and dad. The rocks were sort of boring so we headed down the road.
This is Salisbury Cathedral. It is the largest cathedral in Britain, reportedly bigger than West Minister Abbey. The tower is huge. Unfortunately we couldn't get into the bag areas of the church because there was a Saturday service going on. How dare they use a historic landmark for it's original purpose!
Even better than the cathedral is what was kept inside the cathedral walls. Inside is one of the few remaining original copies of the Magna Carta! This one is in the best shape out of any of the original forty or so. The reason it is in such good shape is because this Magna Carta was lost in a library after it was misfiled. Because of this misfiling it avoided the nicotine stained fingers of library folk avoiding handling damage and coffee stains. Just kidding, I added the nicotine part, and the coffee part but it did avoid the damage sustained by all other known copies. Unfortunately, no pictures are allowed of the Magna Carta so I we couldn't document the viewing.
After eating at a fun little restaurant in Salisbury we piled back in the car for the ride back. Because it took so long to drive back I stayed up until 9 PM! That is a record for me. Mom and dad said I was a trooper the entire time. I am getting big so obviously.
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