Honeymoon - Day 6

Day 6 was our first day trip bus tour! We had to meet at the bus station pretty early and it was an awesome bus we rode on. I still can't believe that those huge buses can actually drive on the streets of London! We made our way out of the city and into the countryside - today's tour consisted of visits to:

• Warwick Castle
• Stratford Upon Avon
• Drive through the Cotswolds
• Oxford

First up, Warwick Castle - pretty much one of my favorite places. Madame Tussaud's owns this place and they sort of set it up like a cool theme park. I really liked it!
Here is what it looked like from the outside

Here I am at the entrance

Inside the castle they had wax figures - of course. This is Henry VIII and his 6 wives. I just love the whole Tudor history. Anne Boleyn is the one sitting with the guitar thing.

This is another shot of a portion of the inside. These places are just so grand, it's just so hard to capture how it truly feels via a picture.

This is the view of The Mound - pretty much all castles have a lookout/mound type of thing. The climb up the mound was pretty awesome!

Here's the view from the top!

This place had an awesome Birds of Prey show and you could go and visit the birds in their little house things. We were literally 10 feet from them! I LOVE LOVE LOVE birds and so does Ramin, so we took lots of pictures.

Bald Eagle of course

I still can't remember the name of this one, but it is some type of Eagle. He flies later on when the show gets going.

This is a teenaged vulture. so cute!

A smaller type of eagle

 

Another type of vulture

Here's that second eagle getting fiesty with the handler

This eagle was having a cow about something...I think he was mad that the handler was paying too much attention to the other bird.

Before the show, we strolled on over to the Peacock Garden....they had peacock topiaries and of course, real peacocks! They were EVERYWHERE! This one here just let me check him while he sun bathed.

These two went on a walk with me

Still walkin

Here's that one guy flying during the show! AWESOME!

After Warwick, we rode the bus for a little while longer and stopped over in Stratford Upon Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare. Ramin and I really didn't care to see this place all that much but it was a cute little storybook town.

This is Shakespeare's house - it's a lot bigger on the inside than it looks.

Obligatory statue

 

The River Avon of course....we learned that there are 9 Avon rivers in England - all of which are totally separate from each other. Avon actually means River in some other language I think...so it's like River River :P

This was a cute little corner candy shop. They had Wonka bars in the window and it looked JUST LIKE the candy store in the 1970s Charlie and Chocolate Factory movie - one of my favorites!

I loved this jester statue!

Next we took a drive through the Cotswolds...if you don't know what they are...look it up. It's the quintessential English houses that you think of when you think of English countryside - with thatched roofs and all. We didn't get any good pics because we didn't stop anywhere...we just drove through.

Our final destination was Oxford - the actual university. I believe it's the oldest university in the world. It was also the inspiration for much of the Harry Potter movies...the actual banquet hall was filed at Oxford. We didn't get to go inside anywhere cause it's an actual working university...but the atmosphere was cool!

 

 

 

Ode to Jenn - Ramin was smart to take this pic since Philosophy is dear to my heart!

 

And that was it! I have one more day of honeymoon to post! It all went by so quickly!