Stonehenge and Bath

Yesterday we visited Stonehenge and Bath. Stonehenge is about an hour and a half's bus ride outside of Oxford. I had been to see it once before, but was nonetheless excited to see if anything had changed since my trip 6 years ago. It had not (they are STONES, after all). It was also very chilly and windy. The site is out in the middle of nowhere; its only neighbors are these stupid sheep grazing on a burial mound. The current theory surrounding the stones is that they were created by a group of people who inhabited the are before the Celts some 4000 years ago. Some scholars also believe that Stonehenge was built to worship the sun. We didn't see any worshipping, just a lot of Japanese. Here are some pictures that are pretty self-explanatory:

Bath was about an hour away from Stonehenge. It is Britain's original tourist destination because it is the only city on the isle to boast of natural hot springs. Bath was a Roman settlement and once the empire disintegrated it became a hangout for gamblers and hookers! In the Georgian Era (18th century) Bath became the fashionable place for holiday, where the rich and famous would "take the water." These included Jane Austen and Dr. Livingston. Bath is also quite a metropolitan area today. There were a lot of neat shops and restaurants. Joseph and I had a fabulous lunch with some of the other kids at Sally Lunn's. This bakery has been making a special sweet bread for over 400 years! The sandwiches were great and the sweet bun with cinnamon butter was even better! Here are some pictures from the area: