Our Clan of Celtic Offspring: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Marrott Style!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Marrott Style!

So Geoff is about to leave for Germany for training and we decided to let the kids play hooky so we could have a day together.

This is where we ventured to....

Castle Rising

Built in 1138 and presented to the Crown in 1300-ish, it is one of the largest Keeps in the country and it was AMAZING!!!

Ok, so check this out....

... the moat on this thing was deeper than any plumber's crack I've ever seen!!! Seriously, I don't know if you can truly appreciate it from the pictures, but imagine yourself fully dressed in 15th century armor, carrying a sword and shield trying to climb 40 feet up a 75 degree angle. That's if, you made it through the water! Oh, and did I mention, it's a double moat. That's right, not one but two moats! This place is nie impregnable.

Ok, here's a few more pix...

A really cool tiled fireplace (glassed over to protect the tile). The tiles were all individually stamped with the coat of arms and various other pictures and symbols.

G with Daeglan and Emeryss sitting on an old chapel wall. M with the four mini-geomir's sitting on the back side of the castle.

View from the Gate Wall. We got to pretend we were archers defending the Keep!

Here is the triple barricaded entry.

Going up! Going Down.

The innerds. Ok, so if you look closely (on the right) you can see the kids in the little doorway across the way. And (left) this is from the basement looking up, all floors and obviously ceiling gone.

Gorgeous original wood-work. I want to live here!!!

2 comments:

michelle said...: What an adventure England is... your kids are going to learn so much, and enrich their imaginations...; October 2, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Kari Clark said...: That is so awesome! I'm so glad that you guys are enjoying England!; October 3, 2008 at 8:17 PM

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The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles

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