Worthing & Stonehenge UK by the kids

On the 29th we dropped the car we rented at the airport and then we got picked up by dad’s uncle, Don. We went to Don’s house, and we met dad’s aunt, Mandy, Mandy was pretty nice and then Olivia came over, Olivia is me and Emma’s three-year-old second cousin. She likes running around a lot (especially if one of us is around), we saw some other people from the family and then we had barbecue dinner it was very yummy, and after that when we finished dinner we went to sleep.
On the 30th we woke up and went to walk the dogs (there are 3 dogs). Mandy took us up to a nice hill and let the dogs stroll around, and then Mandy mentioned that they had a horse and Emma instantly wanted to ride on it. When we got back me and dad went to a cricket match and Emma went to ride the horse (her name is Millie) Don was keeping score on the cricket game, it was cool. After that we went back to the house and went to sleep.
On the 31st I went with Mandy to a church because every Sunday she went up with a couple of other people to ring the bells, I went up and it looked really cool. The way they did it was, they would pull it down really hard and the bell would swing upside, there are six bells and they go in an order from 1 to 6 (1 is the highest and 6 is the lowest) but sometimes they would call something like “5 to 3” and then it would go from 1,2,3,4,5,6 to 1,2,4,5,3,6. I could tell the people have been doing it for a while, when they had a break I got to go up and look at the bells, they were really big. Then when I got down I got to ring one of the bells, it was heavy. They also had a big clock mechanism, and it was really cool. After that when I was coming down from the staircase I heard the pipe organ it sounded nice, then I went home, and Mandy took me and Emma to ride Millie (I didn’t like it that much). Then we went down to the beach got some ice cream and then went to a big Ferris wheel. After that we went home and slept.
On the 1st we went to see Stonehenge, dad said it changed a lot, there were two buildings at the entrance, one was the gift shop, and one was the museum. We had a look at the museum and then went to see the thing we came here to see, Stonehenge. When we got there it was really big, the stones were placed there hundreds of years ago, it’s amazing what they did (and without all the technology we have today). After that we went to the Salisbury Cathedral, it is a very big cathedral and it has the biggest spire in the UK, the spire is 123 meters (404 feet) tall. To make it even cooler I will tell you that the Cathedral is built over water. The reason it is built on water is because there is lots of little rocks in the bottom that can move around and wear it out but the water holds them still so they don’t move around. After that we went to a pub with lots of people from our family (there a lot of family members around here), we played with Olivia a bit. After that we went to the house and went to sleep.
On the 2nd we went to Arundel castle, we first visited the gardens they were really pretty, but there were two gardens that I liked the best, the Collector Earls gardens and the walled garden. Both of them had wooden carvings and beautiful flowers, one of the flowers smelt sort of like curry. Then we saw a wooden fountain that had a big jet of water that was shooting up and it was so strong it was holding up a crown, there were also lots of cool shells around it. Then I found another beautiful flower and it smelled like a lovely vanilla, it is called heliotrope. After that we went into the keep, but on the way there, there was a room that had some swords (wooden swords) and shields, me and Emma battled each other, it was fun. After that we kept walking to the keep and when we got there it looked really cool, the walls where pretty high and it looked awesome. After that we went to the palace and there were lots of rooms, there were lots of stuff that where very fancy, I really liked it. There was a library that had 10,000 books but there was another library, and it was the duke’s private library, it also had 10,000 books. Some of the books looked pretty old, there where so many of them. After that we went back to the house and Emma went for a ride on Milley, then we went to sleep.
On the 3rd we took a train to London and then we took the Eurostar to Paris.
Now for the grand finale…
The end!!!
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Andrew (10 years old)

Hello this is our last stop in England. Hope you will enjoy it.
On the 29th we dropped the car off, then uncle don picked us up. We were staying with Don and Mandy for five days. We had a barbecue dinner. We played with Olivia who is our 2nd cousin. It was cool.
On the 30th I found out that Mandy owned a horse called Millie. I fed her and I got to ride her too. On this trip I have grown a big liking for horses. We dropped dad and Andrew off at cricket first though. Then dad, Andrew and I played cricket, and I got hit in the head by the ball.
On the 31st Andrew went bell ringing and I got to ride Millie again. I love the feeling of being on a horse. After that we went down to the ocean front. Me and Andrew found lots and lots of shark eggs. We weren’t sure they were shark eggs, but dad googled it and said they were. Then we had ice cream. After that we went on a big Ferris wheel. I enjoyed staying with Don and Mandy a lot.
On the 1st we went to Stonehenge. Personally, I just think that they are a bunch of rock stacked up. Each rock is about 13 feet high, seven feet wide and they weigh about 25 tons. Then we visited the Salisbury cathedral. Did you know that in the medieval time people would pray to a part of a saint if they were sick. The spire on the Salisbury cathedral is so big that it makes the pillars bend. The largest seat in the cathedral is for the bishop. The seat is called the cathedra which is why the place is called the cathedral. Then we had dinner at a pub with all the family.
On the 2nd we visited Arundel castle. It had a beautiful garden. There was a wildflower garden and a rose garden. There was one flower that I really liked. It was called Heliotrope. It smelt sort of like vanilla but sweater. There was a hedge that looked like rocks stacked on top of each other. The branches were cut very well. In the castle we got to try on shields and swords. In the end me and Andrew were play fighting. Then I went for a ride on Millie.
On the 3rd we took a train to London and then the Eurostar to France. I can’t believe we finished the UK already.
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