Day 9 was action packed and had fickle weather. We started the morning the Oxford, did a city tour and saw a few things around the city in some rain, then drove quite a ways to Stonehenge, and then even more driving to Weymouth were we arrived pretty late. All in all another good day
View from our window at the Heather Inn in Oxford
Full English breakfast. I am not much of a fan, but Zach seems to like it more (maybe it is the being able to eat eggs thing)
Lincoln wanted to participate in breakfast
After finding the only resonably priced car park in town we were off to see the Ashmolean museum then do our walking tour
"river" along the way to the museum
The Ashmolean which is supposed to be the oldest museum in the world (1600's it was founded)
This museum had something for everybody. This was Laurence of Arabia's outfit that Zach was excited to find
They had multiple Stradivarius including this one. We also so some impressionist paintings and some other artwork. Since we only had 30 min to see the museum and it was gigantic we missed a ton, but we saw was cool
Next stop was the Footprints walking tour. Tom was our guide for 2 hours of walking mostly through some of the 30 some colleges of Oxford
This is the auditorium which sadly was closed because it was graduation weekend.
Bridge of Sighs
The statue in front of the Bodlein library. This was also closed for graduation, but the courtyard was cool
While we were in the courtyard it started just pouring. This is the passageway out where nobody wanted to put down the umbrella
The Camera an extension of the library
All Souls College which only admits a few people per year and lets you stay as long as you want
St. Mary's church. There was something about protestants being beheaded here or something like that. Also a pretty church
Clock tour
Family picture with Christ Church college in the background
Insane line to see Christchurch college because I guess they filmed some part of Harry Potter here.
Zach with more Lord of the Rings. Tolkein wrote part of Lord of the Rings while attending Morton college
Punting and geese
After the tour we ducked out or the rain at the insanely crowded Starbucks to feed Lincoln and have .lunch. There seemed to be mobs of extremely rude 10 year old Italian students for some reason
Covered market close to 300 years old we walked past as we went back to the library to figure out if we could get in.
The library was really closed, but the nice guy at the gate told us to check out the newer library which I am glad we did. It had a display of all sorts of cool things including Handels Messiah
One of the original copies of the Magna Carta
Lincoln enjoying his tour of Oxford
Next up was a long drive to Stonehenge in the rain. Nice countryside, but lots and lots of rain
We tried to stop at Highclere castle (Downton Abby) but it was closed and the drive was locked so we only got a picture of this sign
Next stop was Stonehenge. This is the newish visitor center which is a few miles from the stones
Family portrait in front of Stonehenge!
Stonehenge! (bonus it didn't rain on us!)
Lincoln was more interested in eating the juice bottle than seeing the stones
View from the back of the stones where more had fallen over
Lincoln touching two of the different types of stones (I think he is plotting which one to eat)
Strong boys trying to pull a stone
Sheep which were all over the place
Quick dinner of pasties on the way out
Nice sunset as we drove toward Weymouth and Jurrasic Coast
And we made it to the Southville Guest House. Lots of issues finding parking and then finding our way along the crazy streets. Plus we got there and were on the the 3rd floor with only really steep steps. At least the room and host were nice. Next up was some sleep before exploring the coast.
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