Bath

The day before Thanksgiving we headed down to Bath. There is a military R&R place that we can stay in for only 10 pounds a night, so we decided to spend a few days there. We got there about 6 pm and got checked in. It was a little single wide trailer with 3 bedroom, a kitchen, bathroom, living room and dining room. It was perfect for us. We unpacked and watched a movie!

The next morning we headed to Bath. It was a city built a long time ago and it is where the Romans came to use the Roman Baths. I'm not too good with the history, but it is really old. We saw the Abbey, the Roman Bath's, the Jane Austen Center and walked around the town taking in all the history. It was very pretty. Then we headed back to our hotel and spent the evening playing games and watching a movie.

View from the bridge

Bath Abbey

Roman Bath's from a natural hot spring

Roman Baths

Roman Baths with Bath Abbey in background

Remi and Broden with a man in costume

Bath Abbey

Christas Market with Abbey in background

Friday morning we headed to Cheddar Gorge, the birthplace of Cheddar Cheese. It was a huge canyon with lots of caves and this cute little town built right into the cliffs. We got to explore the caves and town, then climbed the hundreds of stairs to the top of a mountain, then more stairs to the top of a tower to check out the view. The kids were troopers. They had fun and I didn't have a heart attack watching them go up and down the stairs. It was a straight shot of stairs, so one slip and you go all the way down.

Looks like a water fall, but it is all rock, not even wet!

Yes that is a straight drop off behind them. 

 After Cheddar Gorge we stopped in Bath on our way back to the hotel. We wanted to see the Market at and lights at night and let the kids ride the carousel.

 Saturday morning we checked out and drove through Lacock, where part of Harry Potter was filmed. There are actually tons of movies filmed there. Then we drove to some stone ruins, then to Stone Henge. It was neat to see, but not really the highlight of the trip. I thought it was interesting that you pay to go walk around it. You can't touch it or get near it. You can see it without paying, just on the other side of the fence. It was neat to see, but a little too much history and speculating for me.

Lacock Abbey

stone ruins

Family at Stone Henge

Put her right to sleep

We had so much fun on this trip just hanging out and being together. I enjoyed seeing all the sights, but I think the "hotel" was my favorite part. It was so fun to play games, watch movies and read books and have no responsibilities. The kids were so well behaved too. It is getting easier to take them to do things and I think they have more fun now too. I'm excited to discover more of these R&R "hotels."

When we were in Cheddar we bought some "real" cheddar cheese. We took it back to the hotel, but were too full to eat any that night. The next day when we got home we searched all over for it, but couldn't find it. Bummer! We decided Alissa must have put it in some random drawer. Hopefully the next people found it before it started smelling:)