Stonehenge

Sunday evening we made the hour drive from Bath to Stonehenge. Our plan had been to watch the sunset there, so we planned to arrive later in the day. We got there to see a sign that the last shuttle to the rocks was at 5pm and the time was 5:08. We hustled over to the ticket booth to be met with some English Countryside courtesy and were given tickets by a nice ticket agent that told us she could still sell them until someone told her not to. We hoped on the shuttle and rode the couple of miles to the rocks, just in time. 

There was another great audio tour at this site, that gave us the chance to learn a few more things about it than we had known before. Though Stonehenge is a place of hundreds on unanswered questions, but there is a lot more to it than rocks. The land around it was actually shaped with hundreds of mounds and even an avenue that was carved in the ground to form one road to the middle of the center formations. It was all very awe-inspiring. 

We also had a picnic sitting in the shadow of the stones.

Maggie and Will loved it, mostly because they could run around to their heart's desire, and because they figured out that the "big stones" that they were being taken too were actually much bigger than they could have imagined.

Everything was still so green, and we had a night with the perfect sky.

While we did get to see the sun get pretty low, the last shuttle left for the visitor's center about 20 minutes before the actual sunset. It seems like the park doesn't actually want people out there in the dark, and even though it was near a highway, there were guards stationed all around.

Cute little family at the "Henge Stone" as Maggie decided it should be called.