Castle Day

So we spent the day at a couple places.  One of which was Shakespeare's little corner of the world.  I'm a pretty big fan of the Spear Shaker man, and Scott likes some of his stuff too, so this was cool.  We walked outside Ann Hathaway's place.  Your reaction here shows just how big or little a fan of Spear Shaker you are.  I'm referring to the real Ann Hathaway, not the impostor we have in Hollywood right now.  The real Ann Hathaway was Spear man's wife.  Anyways, we didn't really take any pictures there.  We did one better.  The place we got pictures was called Shakespeare's church.  He was baptized there, likely married there, preached there, and buried there.  Speaking of his burial, check out the copy of the inscription he had made.  He left a nice warning and curse for people who move his remains.

On a side note: this just in: Samuel L. Jackson was found dead and buried in Shakespeare's church graveyard.

Most of the day was spent at an awesome castle.  This was Warwick Castle, the only castle in Briton to have never been breached.  It's a pretty cool place.  Lots of people dressed in lovely clothing.

In the castle, there were some beautiful birds of prey.  The trainer also had a nice British dry wit.  Twas enjoyable.  I tried to get pictures of his owl, but it moved around too much.  These birds were quite extraordinary and were so good at praying that they could tell several hundred feet away when the trainer put out any food.  One of the eagles had an eight foot wing span and weighed seventeen pounds.  This one flew all the way up around the castle and to the top of the highest tower.  Quite and achievement for such a huge bird.

Trebuchet.  Anybody heard of such a thing?  Really?  Are you saying yes just cause you don't want sound ignorant?  That's what I thought.  Well, actually I'm sure all the guys know what such a beautiful thing it is.  This is it followed by a nice little video of it being used.  If you listen real close, you can hear me express frustration that I lost sight of the flaming projectile for a split second.

So some of you may know that years ago Scott attempted to be a modern day King Arthur.  Well, we gave him another chance.  Let's see how it turned out.

 

 Well, give him an applause for trying.  He just isn't the chosen one.

 Oh, here's another big boy toy we found.

 I leave you with this.........if you ever get your picture taken in the stock when the sun is shining on you, and you have light,thin, and short hair like me and Scott, you look rather bald. BE WARNED!!