Oct. 29, 2010
Went to London to meet the lovely Jenny. Meet her in tumblr who by, awesome, coincidence is from my hometown and is also here in England.
We tried the London Dungeon but the queue went on for an hour an a quarter even with our priority tickets!!!
But it was just okay as it gave us ample time to talk about ourselves and certain things. The dungeon was great though I would have wanted for more scary antics and such. Jen was so jumpy and we both screamed by crazy kittens. :)) We went to this chamber where they used to sentence criminals in the old times. The judge suddenly appeared from the second floor of the chamber and that made Jenny jump. We were both laughing while the mini-show started so this guy called us to walk up into the platform. He said that we're witches and the judge sentenced us to be drowned in the river. :)) good thing it wasn't real. hahaha!
After an awesome experience at the dungeon, we then headed to China Town for lunch. We had Chinese buffet then Jenny bought some Filipino stuff for her family.
This is Amber, a 4-months-old female Cocker Spaniel. She loves to run around the garden and sleep on my lap. Yes, she sleeps a lot. She's such a darling and so far, haven't done anything to upset us. :)
She loves hanging around our sun room. She would sleep on the carpet the whole day. But of course, we couldn't just let her do that.
We were blessed with a good sunny weather on our second day so we geared up for Snowdonia National Park where the ever famous Snowdon is. It is the highest mountain in Wales and the second in United Kingdom next to that in Scotland.
We past by this beautiful river on our way to Snowdon Railway.
Since it was a good sunny morning in Wales, the railway up to Snowdon was so popular that all the trips for that day were fully booked. A trains goes up and down the mountain every 30 minutes carrying around 50 tourists per trip. Good thing we had our ticket reservations a day before. :)
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| Taking full advantage of the sun for a quick photo at the castle grounds. |
We went to Wales this 21st of September for my parent's anniversary. They were supposed to go on their own but since they can't leave me somewhere else, they decided to tag me along.
We stayed at the Boddelwyden Castle hotel during the entire trip and man, that place was heaving with old people like when you get inside their restaurant, all that you can see is a mile-long of grey-haired heads. The place was for "old" people and youngsters 21 and below weren't allowed. I was lucky enough that I just turned 22 a few days before the trip but since I don't really look like my age, I had to wear mature clothing during meals where everyone dines.
After more or less five hours of driving, we've finally reached Wales. The country was said to be very susceptible to rain but I guess we got lucky since it was all sunny when we got there. After settling on our rooms at the hotel, we headed to the beach... and it was my first time to see the shores of United Kingdom.
