Saturday, July 23, 2011

Day 61.. the excitement in Wales continues...

This morning once we woke up, we had fresh fruit and cereal again for breakfast. Then, I decided to get in a 4 mile run before getting ready for the day. Once I was back and showered, the 4 of us headed out to grab subway sandwiches and then flagged down a taxi to take us to the National Living History Museum in St. Fagans.

The "museum" is out in the middle of the country and depicts how Welsch life used to be and it is outside, so you walk around to different parts looking at different manors, houses, churches, etc. When we first got there we found a spot on the grass and ate our subs, then we walked around. After walking around for awhile we stopped in a Tea Room and they had hot tea and scones with jam and "clotted cream", which is basically whip cream, maybe a little fattier.

After seeing everything, we visited the gift shop and then took the bus back. When we got back, Jeannie and her husband went to the grocery store and Kelsey and I went to the oil store to buy something to dip our bread in tonight... we ended up buying 100 ml of a pomegranite balsam vinegar and 100 ml of hazelnut oil. We got to sample any kind we wanted and we chose those 2. The total was about 13 pounds (close to $20), which we split, because we had to buy the glass bottle to put it in. Afterwards, Kelsey and I walked over to Cafe Gelato and got gelato! I got 2 scoops in a cone: chocolate hazelnut and a vanilla with chocolate crushed cone. It was sooo good! We walked to the park to sit on a bench to eat and talk.

We ended up sitting on a bench directly in front of a couple making out on the grass, so naturally I took a couple pictures :) While sitting, we were approached by a homeless man, holding a beer can, with one hand down his pants. He walked up to us and said "can i ask something?" I immediately said "we aren't from here, sorry." And he ended up asking for money, which we both said we didn't have. And then he asked where we were from, and I said the U.S. and he left. A few minutes later, we saw a couple police men walking by and a man pointing in the direction the homeless man went, so we think he was warning the police about him.

Finally we decided we should walk back... and as we were heading on the path out of the park, we passed these younger, skanky looking girls, and not even 1 minute later 2 police women came sprinting our way and a lady running behind them screaming "NOOOOO!!!" So we turned around, and 2 of the girls we had JUST passed were in a fight... one girl was on the ground, the other girl was ripping her hair out and kicking her in the face. The police women tackled the girl pulling the hair and kicking and threw her on the ground and handcuffed her.... in the meantime, Kelsey and I started inching our way closer so I could take a picture :) We heard 2 other girls yelling at the girl handcuffed that she stole her handbag. Then I got another picture of the police women escorting the handcuffed girl and another girl out of the park :) It was great! I told Kelsey we need to go back to that park every evening.

Once we got back, we ate some dinner: salmon, baked potatoes, green beans, and the bread with the vinegar and oil. They loved it! After dinner, we were watching a movie, and then Kelsey and I walked to the store to buy honey to go in our hot tea. It being Saturday night, there are so many people out at the bars and we can watch them from the balcony. It's so cool because they have "stag" parties (bachelor parties) and "hen" parties (bachelorette parties), and the group of girls dress up in a theme and the guys do the same. We've seen like 5 different groups out tonight. Kelsey and I decided that on Monday night after we see the Grease musical, we are going to go to one of the bars, have a drink, and people watch... supposedly monday night is a huge party night here.

Tomorrow we are going to Stonehenge for the day. It's like a 2.5 hour train ride and then we have to take a bus, so we'll probably pack another picnic lunch.

That's all my excitement for today :) Now it's time for hot tea and honey to soothe my cough ;)

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