Penrhyn Castle!

Penrhyn Castle

Hey!

On Sunday, I went with a couple other on a field trip to Penrhyn Castle. It is right on the outskirts of Bangor. It is a huge house and was lived in until 1949. It is so beautiful inside and out. We were not allowed to take any pictures inside but I have a lot of the outside and all of the gardens and awesome views of the Welsh landscape. I had fun on this field trip looking at the castle and walking around the grounds with my friends.CastleThe group going in the entranceIvy with crossesTreeBeautiful viewMe with the viewThe front doorSide view of castleCastle with mountainsLittle pathwalled gardenpalm tress in wales... so weirdtad poles!prettypath with a bench at the endswamp gardenstairs out of the swamp gardenforestgateruins of an old churchcastleblue bells and old people :)little pathtree pathtypical Welsh picture (sheep and mountains and greenness)beautifuland againme and keeley and jenny

Monday was full of classes and that is pretty much it. The exact same thing is going on today. I went to my last ecology class and that is exciting. I have a couple of assignments due at the end of the week because it is the end of the semester. Not too long until I come home!

This week for OP we are probably going sailing and then camping! I will make sure to update and add pictures right away! I am really excited! Oh and I will leave on Friday for Scotland! I am super excited about that!

Well wish me luck! Talk to yall later!

Awesome Field Trip = Welsh Mountain Zoo and Conwy Castle

Hello again everyone!

Here is a quick update on what I did today! We have field trips all weekend and I thought I would update on each of them separately. Today is Saturday and we had a great day! The field trip was really fun!

We met outside and got on the bus at 930 and headed off to Conwy. Once we arrived we walked to the harbor and around the walls. While we were in the harbor we saw the smallest house in the UK. It was only two rooms big, one upstairs and one down. I could touch the ceiling with my hand and it was about only 3 of my steps from the front door to the back wall. It was tiny. While looking around we were told that the last person to live there was a 6'3'' fisherman. I cant even imagine it. It was so small. After that we began to walk to town walls. Conwy is one of the only towns in the UK that still has the medieval walls surrounding the castle and the city still fully intact. We were able to walk all the way around the walls to the castle and that was really cool!Conwy HarborA view of Conwy Castle with Tecwyn in the bottom left hand cornerSmallest house in the UKThe downstairs room of the houseThe upstairs room of the houseTown wallsWalking in the rain around the town wallsCar driving through the wallsA look down the wallA view from the top of one of the towers on the wallsThe part of the walls we had already walkedThey needed to accommodate for trains :)Conwy Castle

When we reached the castle we were led inside by a tour guide who took us around the castle and told us all about it. The tour took about an hour but it was really interesting and I really enjoyed listening to what the castle used to look like when it was in good working condition.Conwy CastleThe castleThe entrance to the castleLooking up into the 2nd and 3rd floors for a tower of the castle... see the fireplace on the top floorCastle storage roomCastle ovenCourtyard of the castlethis does not make that much sense to me... most of these boats are under the water... haha3 bridges, 1 for cars, 1 for people, 1 for trainsmodel of the townthe churchthe prisoner hold

After the tour we were able to walk around the castle for ourselves and go get some lunch. We ate lunch at a little tea shop and it was very good! After lunch we all got back onto the bus and headed for the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay.

When we first arrived at the zoo we were told we only had about two and a half hours to go look at everything and then we needed to meet back at the bus. This did not seem like a very long time at all to me because at home two and a half hours at the zoo means you can see the monkeys and the birds and then you need to leave. However, this zoo was much smaller and we were able to see everything we needed to before time was over. It was so much fun walking around and looking at all of the different animals. Some of the animals were not so different because we have them at home but some of them were very interesting. They had welsh mountain goats, red squirrels, and polecats. It was so much fun going to the zoo and I am very glad we were able to go.chimpbeautiful viewpenguinpenguins hahaCalifornia sea lions hahahorseostrichwelsh mountain goatbrown bearpretty tree with blue sky... we got lucky when the rain stoppedcrazy monkeyscary alligatorturtlestiger! rawr!

After everyone gathered onto the bus we made our way back to Bangor and Tecwyn told us about tomorrows field trip and when we need to meet outside. I am very excited about tomorrows trip, we are going to Penrhyn Castle. It sould be really fun. I will tell you all about it tomorrow!

Have a great day everyone!