Living like a King

Another rest day (sort of) which was much needed. Bit of a sleep in and then went to Tesco in the morning to pick up some groceries to cook dinner for the family. We then went to Hampton Court Palace which is one of the royal residences and was the former home of King Henry VIII. Pretty staggering to see a building that dates back to 1514, 300 or so years before NZ was founded. We walked around for a while with the audio guides provided as part of the admission, and then headed to watch a joust which was being held that day. The crowd watching the joust was split into 4, with each section of the crowd allocated a knight and horse to support for the joust. Our knight fell off his horse in the practice run but that was his only weakness as he went on to win the joust. Very cool to see a joust in real life (sadly less violence then the movies). After that we checked out the palace some more and then made our way back. We cooked up dinner for the Rossers as a thanks for them for hosting us, and then ended the day with some Pictionary (we later learned we were using children's cards rather than the adult cards woops). -VRead more