6/2/2015 Alnwick Castle and Chillingham Castle, our castle for a night.


 
We left Snake Pass Inn and enjoyed the scenery on the Snake Pass.  I was really glad to leave this inn.  It had a eerie feeling.  We were headed for Chillingham Castle.  Andy's cousin, Gillian, and family are friends with the son of Sir Humphrey, Max.  They got us a good deal on a night stay at the castle.  We were all very excited to get to stay in a castle.
 

 
We stopped at Alnwick Castle.  This is the castle that was used in Harry Potter.  Welcome to Hogwarts!  It was also used in an episode of Downtown Abbey.  We didn't have time to go in, but the guard did let us on the grounds to take a quick picture.
 
 
It is also know for its' beautiful gardens.  This is all we could see from the gate.  They had little elves at work in the gardens!
 

 
 

 
We stopped in town to pick up some food, since the castle wasn't going to have any food available.  We think some boys snuck out of Hogwarts.
 
 

 
We have arrived at Chillingham Castle.  It is actually supposed to be the most haunted castle in Britain.  Unfortunately we were too late for the Ghost Tour. (I was secretly happy about that.  Why would I want to go on a Ghost Tour in the same place that I'm staying the night?) 
 
 
 

 
I did have a wonderful bellhop!
 

 
Here is the kitchen.
 

 
We did get to tour the gardens!  It was closed to visitors, but not to guests.  We had the gardens all to ourselves.
 
 

 
We got photo bombed by Bob.
 
.
 
Bob and Andy checking out the artillery


 
We did find some time alone...sort of.
 
 


 
Then we found the secret gardens.


 
Tracy and Bob getting lost in the maze.
 


 
Janell touring the overlook.
 


 
I had to stop and smell the flowers.


 
Andy found some more toys!


 
I wonder if they shot roosters out of this cannon.
 

 
I needed a break after walking the grounds!  I was so in love with the garden!
 

 
Tracy, Bob, and Grandma shared this room.  They did have to set up another bed where I'm standing.



Andy and I slept in this room.  Janell slept upstairs in the living room.  Too bad I didn't take a picture of the pink bathroom that had a window next to the shower that went out into the hall.  Thankfully there was a picture placed in front of the window. I had a great night's sleep in this haunted castle, but Janell didn't feel the same.  However, she was sleeping by the fireplace and had to restock it with wood during the night. 


 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

We had a "CRATER" honeymoon than you!

Image
We stayed in Midway, UT for the first 2 nights of our honeymoon. Around our little Swiss get away, were all of these little crater pond things. You can see our little cottage in the background of this picture. On Monday we went to the Crater at Homestead. The water is warm and very blue. Many people go scuba diving here, but we just swam around. Ok, so I didn't swim too much. I more of just floated around. They make you wear a life jacket, which meant I got to just relax. I was so relaxed that I even look dead in this picture. We had a nice woman in a wheelchair take a picture of us. She took a lot more than one. She kept telling us to do something different. I decided not to put all of the pictures on here. She really wanted to take one of us in the tunnel. Here we are outside of the tunnel. Once we changed, we got into the car and headed up to Yellowstone. We spent Tuesday seeing the sights in Yellowstone. Within minutes we had to stop because there were some bison in t...
Read more

My Engagement Story

Image
In order to tell the story of our engagement, I will have to first tell you the story of our first date. For those of you who don't know, Andy and I were set up on a blind date by my Aunt Mary and Uncle Fred (more Mary). We met on August 27th when he picked me up for our date. Andy was well prepared for our first date. He planned on going up to canyon for a picnic and walking around the falls. He even had picked up some yummy sandwiches, but I didn't know about that then. Well, it happened to be raining that day, so he gave me the option of going to this authentic pizza place. I chose that plan since it was raining. We went to the pizza place where I ate pizza with corn on it for my first time. After dinner he started driving me back home, and then he noticed that it had stopped raining. We decided to try the canyon anyways. We went up to Canyon Glen and started walking the trail towards Bridal Veil Falls. For those of you who know me well, you know that I can easil...
Read more

July 2025 - Independence and Friends.

Image
July 4 - Parade time!  The usual, candy, chats with neighbors and lots of fun.  After dinner that night, we went to the Melodrama with Rob and Mallory Lyman.  They came and spent the weekend of the 4th with us. It was fun to have friends over and talk, but the kids struggled with not having alone time.   Sunday July 6 - When we got home from church we couldn't find Goldie, but we found blood stains on the driveway and front steps.  After a few minutes she came to Melissa with a big wound in her front leg.  She'd been out while we were at church and someone shot her in the leg.  She must have been bothering other animals.  We got the bleeding stopped with styptic powder and pressure, then Melissa spent most of the afternoon snuggling her to keep her from licking it.  I took her to the vet the next day, they left the bullet/pellet in the leg and just gave her a week of antibiotics. Melissa loved how calm and snuggly she was all day Sunday,...
Read more