when in Rome...

Hi everyone! It has been awhile since we have posted...sorry, it was our last week in Wolverhampton, and we had a bunch of little things to get finished before we left! Well, this past weekend, we went to Bath, an old Roman town, I think northeast of us....but i'm not sure. (jack usually knows what direction we are in....i just get on the train) We heard it was beautiful, and so we took an early Saturday morning train and got there by 11am. It was pouring, like I have come to expect in England...but, oh well, we are prepared. We went to our hostel...which, was a little 'rougher' than our previous one....but, it was only one night, we were okay. We basically toured the old ruins of the Roman Baths...they were originally built around a hot spring and were deemed 'sacred' and thought to be due to the goddess Minerva....so, anyway, it is the major tourist attraction....and it was quite fun! We then went to the fashion museum...which actually turned out to be quite dissapointing...it took us about 30 minutes to get through the whole thing! not worth our pounds.... but, as it is a fashion place, and once the rain cleared up, we obviously did what there is to do there....SHOP. It was packed, more like a zoo, as jackie calls it. Everyone and their mother were there for xmas shopping. We made it through the crowds, and eventually went out to dinner and drinks...we had a great time, but had to be up early to get to the tour we had booked.
Again, it was pouring rain that morning, and, tired as we were, we were up and ready to go by 8am. We went on a day tour to see some very very old villages and towns that were once very prosperous due to the woolen industry, but had since died out because of the Industrial Revolution...and now, are owned by wealthy people who love to live in these quaint little towns. So, we did that, and of course, saw Stonehenge. For those who go to stonehenge, it is quite large obviously, in fact, it was so large, we did not feel the need to pay £4 to see it...we simply looked on from afar...but, as you will see later, once i have a chance to post pictures...we still got great views. Instead, Jackson and I found it much more entertaining to go in the adjacent field and try to pet sheep! They are so cute, and, apart from trying to walk through a field of sheep poop to get close to one, much more darling than the huge stonehenge. So, we hung out with the sheep and tried to pet them, without much success. We are glad that our cameras have zoom. I guess we are not one with the sheep....
So, we took a train home late Sunday night, and had the last four days left to work and get ready for Ireland!