Ok so what's so special about fish and chips and curry and Wagamama's? Well They all happen to be in the motherland, ok not Utah, England. My little brother and sister and I took a little trip across the pond to the UK, more specifically to York, Bath, and London. We had a great time. In York we went to visit a close family friend who is getting her masters. We took the train from London to York. We went through beautiful countryside. We went to church on Sunday. That was cool. Then we went walking through the city. Thats our friend's finger pointing at where we are in York. 
We toured around the city centre, and was privilaged enough to be there during the Sword Spectacular. Here are some now dancing with their swords. 
while watching the sword dancing we ate pasties. I had one with tomato, cheese, and basil. I also had one with spicy chicken- I was curious because the English don't do spicy- it was curry. We also ate at Betty's. In York it is the place for tea. We ate yummy desserts there. We walked on the Roman wall that surrounded the city. 
Here are some steps that lead up to the top of a section of the wall. We had beautiful weather in york. We went to the York Minster Abbey (also a cathedral). Here is a view through the city.
This is a picture of the Rose window.
We also walked throught the Shambles. The shambles is a street where the top floors of the buildings hang out farhter than the first floors. They were only charged by the footage of the lower level. 
Here is my sister and our friend. You could practically reach out and touch your neighbor!
The next day we took the train to Gloucester to meet up with our friend's friend to go to a cheese rolling festival. Unfortunately because of the weather we missed the cheese rolling, but we did get the opportunity to walk to the Gloucester abbey, or St. Peters Abbey. 
It is a beautiful place. Here is my sister and our friend in one of the many beautiful halls (recently used in the Harry Potter movies). Here I am in one of the courtyards.
We also went to Bath, another beautiful town in the west country. Here are myself and my sister and brother at the Roman baths.
Bath is where the Romans built their famous baths. They thought the naturally occuring spring waters had healing properties. 
Water is best! We walked around Bath and then we drove back to York with our friend's friend. What a day! The next day we took a bus to Castle Howard. Another beautiful place. 
The Castle is still owned and lived in by Howards. The weather was not so nice to us while we were visiting the castle, but it was still beautiful. everything was so green there. We walked all around the grounds.
There are beautiful gardens including rose gardens, although the roses weren't in bloom when we were there. We walked through what seemed like a forrest, called Ray wood. There were beautiful wild flowers. 
There were walled gardens and ornamental vegetable gardens.
We walked from the house through the gardens to the Atlas fountain along the outside of the woods to the temple of the four winds.
We then walked back to the house through the woods. The view from the temple of the four winds was breath taking I think I don't know if it could be anymore beautiful with the sun shinning as it was with the clouds and drizzle. 
Can that be my backyard?!
