Bath and Wales

Hey guys! Sorry about my belated blogging again. I've been busy playing Theme Park on my DS. I bought it as a souvenir here as it's only in the UK. I' ve also been busy doing the things I'm going to talk about here (again). My parents suggested I blog and I never got around to it. Last night I discovered a new game on Nitrome (my favourite website in history) and today my parents said I could use the computer for a few minutes if I write my blog first. So here I am!

Three days ago we drove to Bath (from South England) and stayed in a hotel there for one night. Before we slept we went out to look at the Roman Baths (therefore the name of the town 'Bath'). It was pretty fun. We didn't sleep too well in our hotel room.

Then we drove to Wales. We met up with my mom's 1st cousin minus one (my grandma's cousin), Ann, and went to her B & B near Abergavenny. She invited us to stay here as her guests. The first day we drove out to a chapel and cemetry where mom Gwen's great grandparents were buried and we drove to the farm where Gwen's grandfather was raised. That night a whole bunch of mom's relatives came for dinner and I met all of them.

Before all of that we went to Raglan Castle and snapped (between Mimi and me) at least 150 pictures (no, really!). The castle was pretty damaged, but it looked pretty good. The castle was built in the 1400's.

Yesterday we drove through Brecon Beacon National Park (the B & B is actually in this park) and we went to the National Park Mountain Center. We had carrot soup for lunch and desserts and I bought a book to learn Welsh easily. Next we drove down to the Brecon Mountain Railway to take a train into the hills and back. We sat in the very back by accident (not knowing it was the back). Luckily, we were chosen by the conductor to get to sit in the very back, first class caboose (on the way back it became the first car in the train). There was a seat a seat where you have to climb up into it that has windows looking out above the rest of the train, so I got to see the very front of the train. The conductor was very kind and he let me do all sorts of things. He even opened a door (that has a rope to make sure you don't fall out) to let Mimi take pictures of the scenery without the frames or water on the window. The train ride was four times better than I expected. It was better two times more 'cause we got the first class seat.

Mimi was typing this time (now it's Mom), and she wanted the font to be larger because she couldn't read the font size before. Time for my Mom to add the pictures!

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