Stonehenge by Mia

The morning after we arrived in England we woke up pretty late because we had stayed up until the early morning the night before. We packed our stuff and mommy and daddy went down to breakfast first, because they were they only ones who were supposed to be staying in our room. By they time they came back up it was too late for us to go down because they were shutting down the buffet, so we had some yogurt and bread that was in the cooler. We ended up leaving at about eleven, and then we spent about three and a half hours driving to Stonehenge which was actually only supposed to take two hours. Daddy got a bit lost, we spent like an hour driving back in forth about ten minutes away from the hotel.

When we finally got to Stonehenge it was like 2:15 in the afternoon. On the way we had stopped at a little grocery store and all us kids bought candy and chips and all sorts of junk food and had a party. Because of this, by the time we got there everyone was either feeling sick or bouncing off the walls. Also, during the car ride I finished A Farewell to Arms, which is a really sad book!

Stonehenge is in the middle of nowhere. To get to it we went through several adorable little villages and then through rolling green hills. You drive over one of the rolling green hills and suddenly see it, and a parking lot full of tour buses and cars. Then beyond it there are more rolling green hills. The parking area is much bigger than the actual attraction (which is actually a lot smaller than I thought it would be). You can't get very close to the rocks because it is entirely roped off, and the paths lead the he'd of tourists around the ring, and to the heel stone. It is extremely regulated, but there is the occasional streaker. One guy ran up really close to the rocks and got his friend to take his picture before the guards kicked him out.

There is only a little grass patch and two benches within the roped off area, and that was where we sat and had our picnic lunch. It was really windy so all our food was blowing around. We pondered Stonehenge while getting increasingly allergic to all the grass. We came to the conclusion that it is over rated, smaller than expected, and overprotected. Then we left because our eyes were really itchy and we were sneezing a lot. Before we got back in the car we went to stand on top of a little caveman made mound to got a better view of Stonehenge. It was one of three grassy mounds that had been there as long as Stonehenge and Mommy kept wondering what they were. Judging by the fact that archeologists and tour guides alike go off on long lectures and write long papers on how they 'have no idea what Stonehenge is,but here's what it might be', no one has any idea. I was also slightly weird that there was a couple sleeping at the top. At first I thought they wee hobos but they had a dog so I decided they were just some people who fell asleep for some reason.

By that time we were dying of allergic-ness so we headed back to the car. We drove into London and find our hotel. The apartment we got has one bedroom and I foldout couch, but luckily the couch has lots of cushions so we all have someplace to sleep, more or less. It is about twice the size of the place Kayley and I stayed at with Bippy and Gramps in Paris, though.