And then we went to windsor

We went to Windsor castle and we saw all of the usual stuff. The castle, itself, obviously - the unusual bit, I suppose, was that the Queen was actually in residence. We could tell, because her standard flew from the high flagpoles, one of which you'll see shortly. We saw the changing of the guard - you'll see pictures in the next day or so. But we also saw some unusual stuff, and one of those unusual things was Queen Anne's Dollhouse. This thing is huge. It is in a dark room which is illuminated by the dollhouse itself; and it is behind glass. I got three pictures taken before I was told that photographs were not allowed. Something about safety. I'm going to share two of those shots with you, today. This is what you first see as you enter the room:



It is taller than I am. And this next shot is just to show you that this building is multi-sided. In fact, there are four sides to this 12th scale copy of a 1920's era English Manor House, built to show all that was good about English Manor House life.



This next shot is of the oldest part of Windsor. It has the Queen's standard flying from its flagpole and I thought the juxtaposition of 12th and 13th century masonry and the jet flying overhead was ... cool. If you click on this picture it should pop out fullsize and you can scroll around the picture with your browser. The same, by the way, with the other two pictures above.




There was so much we saw that day, as in all the days of our trip. There are so many pictures and I know some of us don't have the best of fastest connections, so I can't just load up a bunch of pictures in here and expect everyone to be able to read the post. So, a bit at a time. Little pieces. Besides, that way I get to tell more of a story and fill in around the few pictures I can post at one time.

And that's way more fun.