Alice is tooo busy swimming......

Hi everyone

Sorry I am having tooooooo much fun swimming to update this blog,,,,,,,,,please look at Lucy's blog to see what I am up to..... did I mention swimming in lots of lakes.

Lucy's blog is ....... lucymcfoster.blogspot.com See you next term

Alice.

30 Aug Roude to London

30 Aug

Today we caught a train to London. We all went to the London Science Museum.

We looked at a lot of space stuff. We also went into a 3D little theatre and we were in the front seat of a RAF Red Arrow aerobatic team . It was a cool flight and the seats moved.
We also saw in a bigger 3D theatre a space flight to watch astronauts fix the Hubble telescope and a Deep Sea one. Hubble was best. There was lots of hands on stuff to play with too.

29 Aug Caen Hill Locks

Today we went for a walk along the river. It was the first time we had seen a "Lock". When the river is too steep the put Locks in it like steps on a staircase so boats can move up it. You have to open and close the big doors so you can change the water level and allow the boat to move up or down the river. We got to help the boat owners to do this, it was cool. There were 31 Locks in this stretch of river....ALOT.

28 Aug To Bath

28 Aug

Today we set off for Bath. This is a town that has hot Baths in the middle of it!!!There are natural hot springs there and people used to stop and bath there 5000 years ago. It was 2000 years ago that the Romans were clever enough to to get the hot water and make a really big Bath complex. It was good to look at , thou we did not have a bath. we were able to drink the water but it was warm and tasted horrible.

We did a river cruise on the river Avon that runs through Bath on the Putney Princess.

We looked at some of the old buildings and then went to the biggest kids play ground I have ever seen.

27 Aug Avesbury

Today we went to Avebury. This is another ring of rocks like Stone Henge but much bigger and not as famous as there are not so many really big rocks left. We also saw an old TOMB called West Kennent Long Barrow. It was a really cool cave made of rocks and heaps of people were buried there years ago.

Stone Henge - Salisbury

26 Aug

We were only about 10 mins away from Stone Henge. Some guys for reasons they can only guess about some how 4500 years ago moved these really huge rocks in to a circle so they could have celebrations or religious gatherings. Quite amazing. It also lines up with the sunsetting on the longest day in Summer.

We then went into Salisbury and had a look around. Mum made me go to this church, Salisbury Cathedral. Lots of old religious stuff inside. One thing that was interesting was the oldest clock in existence. There were lots of tombs and we got to light candles and I nearly burned myself.

Winchester-New Forest-Roude in Wiltshire

25 Aug

There was lots of driving today. We drove from Winchester to friends house in the New Forest which act is very very old. It is a huge area and has wild horses running around. WEIRD. We went for a drive to Lymington on the south coast in the rain. Friends picked us up from there and then off to ROUDE which is a tiny little village. We stayed with a family of 3 boys with more toys then Charles has got. I loved all the boy toys.