A Wales of a Good Time, Part 3

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

When on vacation I never keep track of the calendar date, unless I have a reservation or something.  So the 4th of July passed us by with little fanfare, (and no rain, take that PNW!!)

 We started the day by attending Morgan's Field Day at school.

 It was fun to watch and cheer for our young friend as he won the potato on the spoon run.

 Then it was off to St Fagan's National Museum. This is an outdoor heritage museum showcasing the historical lifestyle, culture and architecture of the Welsh people.

 It consists of more than 40 relocated buildings brought to the grounds of St Fagan's Castle which is actually a manor house not a real castle.

 The grounds have many formal gardens

 The manor house was really quite dark

 Some of the original furnishings were fun

 Wouldn't we all like a kitchen this size??

 Louise, Morgan and David in the castle yard

 Wayne walking through the formal gardens

 Now that is really one planned out and executed garden

 Outside the 'castle wall'

 We walked through this tunnel to get to the rest of the museum, and yes we checked for spiders in our hair!

 The spinner was working at the woolen mill.  He said it took about 20 hours to spin the yarn that would be used in about 2 hours of weaving.

 One of the old barns moved to this site.

 That is one big tree Wayne is standing next to.

 An old farm house moved to this site

 Another old farm house

 After St Fagans we went my my cousin Kim's farm to see if she was there. We found these guys instead.

 Then we went to the Royal Mint. It was originally in the Tower of London, where we saw a display about the workings of that time.  It was moved out of the tower to Tower Hill in 1812 where it remained until the current location was opened in 1968.   This Mini is located in the lobby and is thought to be one of 2 made for the promotion of the Beatles' "Penny Lane"

 Although you can't take picture's in the mint, we did go on a tour and I even minted a 2 Pound coin, which I gave to the new grandson Finn.  Here we are looking at the exhibits after our tour.

The mint also made all the medals for the 2012 London Olympics.