Good morning, Llanberas, its time to see what cool stuff you can dish out today.
Actually, pouring rain was the first surprise on the menu.
I had gotten up and ready for the day, went down to the cafeteria area for breakfast, and looked out the window into the downpour as I munched on my cold cereal. Wheatibix, not bad at all.
I had heard rumors that we would be going to a lot of castles today, so I....
Actually, I'm not really up for writing my traditional novel today. I'll probably kick myself for this later, but whatever. :)
Today we went to Conwy castle first. While I was walking past the prison tower, I heard the girls goofing off in the lower levels. They must have been pretending to be lord of the rings characters, and I saw Abby recording them on her camera when I peeked over. They were totally making crazy stuff up, so I walked to the edge of the balcony high above where they were standing and sang "I am the angel of music. Come to me angel of music." Some of them fell against the walls down there they were laughing so hard. That was an awesome moment.
We stopped in the town of Plas Mawr to see the gorgeous manor house that is there. It was super high-to-do a long time ago, but sometimes getting really excited about the rare walk-in closet is just too much. :)
After we finished the lovely tour, we walked through the old town surrounding it. Our ever un-excited companion Matt decided to start talking as we left the manor. He was talking about how he had to go to a terrific vanilla slice place and wasnt leaving town without one. If Matt was raving about it, these must be good.
The majority of us ended up going over with Matt to a little bakery that was selling all sorts of big amazing baked sweets and pasties for really cheap! The vanilla slices ended up being a thick slab of vanilla pudding sandwiched in two fluffy sweet pastry bread and topped with lemon icing. They were huge, and I decided that I was really just hungry for something more substantial, so i picked up a chicken and curry pasty, which was pretty dang good.
Next we drove to Caernarfon castle. This castle held a big slate Dias where King Charles II was crowned, so we took it upon ourselves to reenact the ceremony.
We also walked through a big British military museum they had in there, which I thought was really cool.
Our last stop of the day was Beaumaris castle. This castle was one of the few that had the moat area actually filled up with water. The funny thing about this moat though is that it looks like it had endured a green paintball fight or a lime cool aid ceremony, Because it was startlingly green! the castle was pretty cool, but there wasnt a lot else that was new about this one.
When we were driving back to the hostel, Josie noticed an Indian food place at the street of shops at the bottom of our hill. I've loved trying out new foods here, and the other girls really wanted to eat there, so we walked down.
The food was excellent. The service was really bad. I really don't take much stock in how the waiters act around you, but these guys seemed snappy and very terse, which actually made it a bit uncomfortable. Oh well, the food really was great. Pretty sure we left that place feeling very stuffed.
After dinner, Abby went back to the hostel with Josie. Miya, Lydia, Theresa and I decided to walk down to the river to see more of the lovely mountain scenery. When we got to the river, we noticed there was a children's park just down the trail a bit.
Upon reaching the park, we noticed a strange toy, one we haven't been able to find since. It was a vertical pole with a large horizontal circle hanging from the pole about a foot off the ground and had a web of black ropes all in between. It's really hard to describe, but just imagine standing on part of a steel circle that spins around a tall pole in the middle. Well, that's pretty much what we did...for like an hour. And we got that circle spinning CRAZY fast! It was ridiculous! Like double the speed of the teacups at Disneyland, no joke! We got the most speed by pulling it pretty fast and then having everyone lean in close to the pole at the same time. Then we whipped around that little circle!
Boy, an hour of spinning plus a recently consumed massive Indian dinner equals someone extremely grateful to have a stomach of steel. Lets just say that some of the other girls weren't quite so lucky afterwards. No one threw up, but two really weren't feeling so hot.
Once we went back to the hostel, we got into some more comfortable clothes and started winding down for the day. (haha) The other girls in my room decided to go downstairs to the lobby and play games, but for some reason, I really just wanted some 'me time.' So I wrote a little in my journal and then decided to pop in a movie, just by myself.
Abby came in about an hour later, madder than I have ever seen her before. She opened the door, plopped herself down in front of me, exploded her frustrations of being killed by Theresa in mafia, and then went back downstairs. Sometimes I really enjoy how the world works for girls. it can be a tad volatile, but its pretty straightforward. To the men reading these blogs: if you want to make a girl happy, just actively listen when she talks and then validate her in whatever is happening. You'll thank me later. :)
By the time my movie ended, my friends had finished their game and were laughing and yelling about who killed who through the game. We all got ready for bed and probably chatted for another hour before we all drifted off to sleep.
There you have it: day twenty-four, in all its fun :)
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