Saturday, January 29, 2011

Chester

Saturdays are reserved for family and we usually spend it venturing out to see and enjoy this beautiful country! Today we went to Chester, which is about 40 minutes away from Culcheth. Trace and I have been a couple times before, but we knew the kiddos would like it too! We walked on Roman walls from 70 AD, played in a Roman Ampitheatre, went through a church founded in 689 and saw ruins! We also ate two "American" meals and browsed the Disney store!

The craziest thing that happened was after taking 115 pictures of everything awesome, the memory card in my camera died! I was so bummed and we eventually found a Panasonic store to buy a new SD card. They said that my card couldn't withstand the low temperatures (it was freezing today!). So, I got a new card that is supposed to hold up in -20 degrees Celcius! The bad news is that ALL my pics from the morning were lost. The good news: my precious husband retraced our steps so I could retake photos at our favorite spots! The only thing we didn't do is go in St. John's Church again- founded in 689, still an active church! But, I can go back and take pics there again, since we live here! So, we got some good ones the second time around and here's a few...


Along the Roman wall

Walking on the wall


Part of St. John Church, founded in 689 AD, in ruins. The other part is still an active church!

Roman Amphitheatre


The funny thing about this sign is that its outside an upscale home decor shop. We didn't go in to get our free miracles and healing...

What a great quote on this building!

2 comments:

Chef Bolyar-D said...

Very Cool! You hear so much about the usual historic things in England that it's easy to forget that there's so much history to be explored in the entire country. Hope to see it ourselves someday... with you even! Hope you feel better soon. If it helps, we have the flu at our common ol' Tennessee home too. Blessings - Susan

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures. I love peeking into your life even though you guys are so far away.