In my Opinion...

.... the best photos are the ones in black&white

.... the best thing you can photograph is two people madly in love with each other 

.... it's been waaaayyy too long since i've shot such a picture.

Windsor Castle

This morning we got up really early and drove 2 hours to Windsor, England which is just north of London. There, we toured one of the queen's castles. I have been to a couple Castles before.. one in the US and one in Canada but they were NOTHING like this castle. It was amazing and there was a lot of beautiful history behind it.

It was an 800 year old castle which was home to all of the royal family as far back as 1256. There was a cathedral inside of the castle grounds as well that we toured which was the burrial place of many great Kings, Queens, Dutchesses and Dukes. Pretty cool huh? I only got pictures of the castle and the castle grounds. We weren't aloud to take pictures inside. I wish I could show pictures because it was gorgeous. 

There was a huge fire in the castle in 1992 which destroyed a big section of the castle so a lot was re-modeled but there were still some ancient rooms throughout. We got to walk through rooms in which many of the Queens and Knights had their corenations. One of my favorite rooms in particular was King Henry III royal chamber. The walls were bright crimson, their were beautiful paintings everywhere and the ceiling and a lot of the furniture was made of gold. 

Another one of my favorite rooms was one of the dining halls which was the largest room in the castle. All along the walls and the ceiling was Knights armor and plaques of about 800 of all the Knights who served as protectors to the royal family. On your next trip to England, Windsor Castle is a definite MUST see. These pictures don't even do it justice.

The oldest par of the castle!

The view over Windsor.

This is about half the cathedrial on the castle grounds. Amaaaazing!

We were pretty entertained with this guy. 

Hope your weekend was as fabulous as mine.

So You're Probably Wondering Where My Other Blog Went...

Dear faithful readers/friends/stalkers:

Welcome to my new blog.

I apologize for the blog address change. My other blog was disabled by google for unusual activity. I found out it was because I am in the UK and I made my blog in the US. I had no way of re-activating it because that blog was linked to through my phone number and I don't get international reception. So that kind of sucked but I have a new and improved blog ;) I find blog designing to be fun. You see my awesome blog header? Yeah, I made that. If anyone needs help with blogging or have any questions, feel free to ask. I've read it all online and I do all my work online and it really is a piece of cake.

Back to the blogging stuff.

So a recap on my life. I am in England. It is amazing. Most beautiful place I have ever been to & I can say that after only being to Mexico and Canada. I don't do much here but explore. There isn't much to do and plus I have yet to meet friends. My ward here at church is great. People are so friendly. I'm especially in love with talking to the elder missionaries that live just down the street. They are from Utah and I love hearing about their experiences here and about their life back home.

Speaking of missionaries, my brother got his mission call. He has been called to Tempe, Arizona, English speaking and he leaves on March 13th which is a lot sooner than we expected! Laugh all you want but he is actually pretty stoked. He didn't want to go foreign or didn't want to learn any languages. He isn't much of an adventurous spirit like I am.

But that is pretty much the sum of what's happened here. I still can't decide what I want to do this summer or where I want to go. I was supposed to go to Thailand but the program is full and the program director failed to tell me that after accepting me to the program. Dad wants me to either explore around Europe with a student group or do service work somewhere in South America. He says Peru or Costa Rica. I've always had the desire to go to Africa and do service work. It's just a tough decision when I just want to go everywhere, plus the fact that I am the most indecisive person to ever walk this planet. Oh well, that part will just have to be continued...

For those who haven't seen pictures of my home yet, enjoy.

The outside of the house, this is how most English homes look like. 

The dining room consisting of pictures of creepy babies. 

The parental's room 

Ashtyn & Rylee's room

Half of my attic. Yes... I live in the attic & I failed to take a whole picture of it.

The movie room which now has a tv :)

Tanner & Ethan's room. Say hello to Tanner.

The kitchen.

The laundry room/ the downstairs bathroom. See that little string with a knob at the end on the right? Yeah, that's the light switch. Pretty cool, huh?

The living room. This is my favorite room in the house. There are many travel books that belong to the farm company. I know what I will be doing with most of my time. 

Hey there Ashtyn. 

The room I am currently sitting in.

This I found out is the back door. As you come in through the sliding glass door there is a little room to put your shoes. then you walk in through the blue door.

Well that's all for now, folks. To follow my blog for more updates create a blogger account and follow me or subscribe to my blog through blog lovin' found on my sidebar to the right. I would love some blogging buddies!

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The address is haileyknight92@live.com

I was surprised at how many emails I got from so many different people within the first week that I was here. I love you guys, you're the best.