Tour of Anglesey

First of all, shout out to miss Rylee Capesius who will be turning 9 tomorrow! Happy birthday girly, I miss you!

Second, today we did a tour of the island of Anglesey for our field trip. It was a very fun and beautiful day! We started in the town with the longest name in the world: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogoch (58 letters that took me 5 minutes to type and I have to no idea how to say it haha!) In English it means 'The church of many in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of the tysilid by the red cave". That is a mouth full. There is pretty much nothing in this town but it is actually a huge tourist stop just because of the name.

Then we went to the Penmon Priory and we saw a really old church that is over 1000 years old. It was very cool! There were ancient Celtic crosses in the church that were amazing just because of how old they were. There was also another holy well called St. Seiriol's Well. It was not nearly as glamorous as the last one but still had the same healing powers. Not so sure how much I believe in the powers...

We then went to Beaumoris Castle which was very beautiful. Cool thing about this castle is there is a mote around it! At this point my camera died, sad day! We got to walk all throughout the castle, on the walls and lot of other places. It would have been a great place to play hide and seek! There was also a chapel in the castle which was different from the other castles we have been to. There was a woman in there singing opera type music, she was amazing and just singing for fun. I look forward to taking my family to this castle when they come to visit. We then wandered around town for awhile. Saw the pier and had some AMAZING ice cream, I think it was the best I have ever had! The town as so cute. We also found a cute little gift shop so I finally got some souvenirs from Wales! And I think I even saw a dragon wandering around town ;o)

After Beaumaris we stopped briefly at the Marquis of Anglesey. This was basically a tower in the middle of nowhere with a statue at the top that you could climb up to. We climbed up in 2 groups because there were too many of us. There were 116 steps! It was insanely narrow at the top but the view was unreal. You could see both bridges that go to Anglesey and you could see back over to Bangor. Quite cool!

Our last stop on the trip was Llanddwyn Island. Tecwyn told us we would have just over 2 hours to explore, and I was like "Oh great what are we going to do for 2 hours on a beach in Feburary?" Well there was plenty to keep us busy because the island just off the coast was so beautiful. It had 2 Celtic crosses, a church in ruins, 2 light houses and some cliffs we climbed around. It was just so beautiful, words and pictures can't explain. We wandered around easily for 2 hours. We even climbed on some of the rocks near with waves splashing in from the sea. It was a very cool experience! Hopefully I can borrow someone's memory card so I can get some pictures.

Well, the night is still very young and it is time to do some celebrating for one of the girls' 21st birthday. Should be a a fun night!

Until next time...

~Amy