Sandringham

Memorial Day we headed to Sandringham. It is where the Queen goes for Christmas. You can even go there on Christmas and all the children can give her a flower! They had amazing gardens around the castle that you could walk through. We walked on the grounds to the castle, and then went inside. They had the rooms on the main floor set up so we could walk through and see them. There was amazing furniture, decorations, swords, paintings, tapestries and anything else royalty might want in their home. Many of the things are hundreds of years old and given to the queens, and kings by other countries as gifts. After the castle we went in to the ball room where they had pictures and boats all about the sailing the men have done. I don’t remember much, pretty embarrassing, but sailing has been a big part of their life. I have lots to learn and remember. We are trying to find a good book about the royalty. We can’t keep them all straight.

After the ballroom we walked to the museum. It had a little display of a wood shop and some of the things built out of wood. It also had a game room. Back in the day before TV, computers and radio the royal family would sail to other countries and go hunting. They would bring home their kill and have it mounted and all these animals were all over this room. Then the men would sit here and talk about their hunting trips. This is what they did for entertainment. Sounds like the Jones boys would fit right in with the royalty.

Next was the car area. They had some of the Royal Cars that they don’t use anymore. It was awesome to see and read about them. Most of them were custom made!

After walking around the garden some more we headed to a little town called Wells-Next-the-Sea. It was on a little inlet from the ocean/sea. We ate lunch here(the adults, the kids had PB&J in in the car) I got a ham and cheese sandwich and Blake had fish and chips. It was yummy. Then we walked through some of the little shops and checked out the people crabbing and decided we needed to come back again and give crabbing a try. Another fun, fun day.