Marlborough and Lacock

On the 6th, we spent our afternoon on a walk through Marlborough. They had put up Christmas lights, and we had fun roaming the streets and following the footpaths around homes and through an old church built in the 12 hundreds! There is an art college there that the Queen's granddaughter supposedly goes. After spending a couple hours there, we went home and spent the time playing card games. When dinner time came, we went to a pub Joe had been to before, and had dinner. The pub had been functioning since the 1500s, and was very authentic and old English style. I had a delicious meal of chicken and potatoes and then chose, of course, sticky toffee pudding for dessert. That is the best sticky pudding I've had. I am going through my head trying to figure out how to make it so when I get home, I won't go through withdrawals!

Monday was spent in Lacock; a historic village that was used in Pride and Prejudice, and who's Abbey was used in Harry Potter. Sadly, the abbey was closed at that time, and we weren't able to roam the halls of Hogwarts. We did roam the streets though, and found a pub that was built in 1361 and still functions. There was also a cute little bakery where we got some old recipes and nougat, which is like fudge. After wandering, we finally had to leave to pick Ande up from preschool. The history and authenticity of this village is trying to be saved, so those who live there can't put up dish satellites or show any technology. However, there were still cars there. The village itself was really small, but was the place where the man who invented negative/positive photography lived. That night, we had our neighbors, Kristi and her son Justin, over for dinner. To bring the Christmas spirit, we decided to put up a tree. Unfortunately, we didn't want to get a fake one since we are leaving in 2 weeks, so we made one from tissue paper, and quilted ornaments that our grandma showed us how to make. 

Lacock

The Abbey

The George Inn. est. 1361

These were at the Woolen Center and were called Hanna Caps.... COOL!

This morning, we were invited to go with Ande's preschool out caroling around the army base where it is held. They were all so cute singing with there English accents and carrying around money buckets for donations.

This was in the middle of a roundabout.

Oh, Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas tree, Thy leaves are really unchanging...