Wow! So the other day when I said I was living in Pride and Prejudice, well that defined today! First we went to Haddon Hall. It was awesome! It dates back to the 12th century and was the home of the Manners and the Vernons. And it actually was empty for 200 years between 1700 and 1920! So it has been kept in its original condition fairly well. It’s the most primeval house that we have been to the whole trip. At first I didn’t really like that it was that way, but by the end I loved that it was! It was so cool to see the wear marks in the stones in the steps from centuries of walking on them. You could just get a feel of what they would do and their traffic patterns. Our tour guide said that they didn’t have very good teeth back then so they would have to cut up their food so they would be able to eat it. So in the kitchen are holes that were worn into the countertop from all the cutting and grinding of their food. It was all really interesting! And, like I sort of mentioned before, Pride and Prejudice was also filmed here! The part when Elizabeth gets the letter telling her that her sister just ran off with Mr. Wickham was filmed there! Parts of Princess Bride were filmed there too! But our tour guide said that it’s hard to recognize because of all the props they used. So after our tour of the house we went out to the gardens. Oh man I loved them! Everything was so green! It was overcast so all the colors were so intense! And there were hills of grass and trees that went on forever! The feel of it was so awesome! It was just so calm. And it really felt like I was in Pride and Prejudice! So fun! After that we made our way over to Chatsworth. This is the home of Mr. Darcy! Oh man it was awesome! The inside was very pretty! There is a music room on the second floor with a door that has a violin and bow hanging from a hook by a ribbon painted on it! It looks incredibly real! I would never have known it was a painting unless someone told me and I still had a hard time believing it! It was incredible! But yeah it was beautiful! We also went outside on the grounds. They are huge! There’s a maze, a rock garden, a kitchen garden, a sensory garden, some ponds, a huge water feature, a waterfall, grass, and tons of trees, the list could go on forever! It was very pretty! So in the house is the statue room that they show in the movie! And they even have Mr. Darcy’s bust in it! Oh that was so fun! They have the statue of the girl with the veil over her face! It is beautiful! I love that one! So yeah I was Elizabeth Bennett for the day! I loved it! After we got home we went to this weird thing that was playing at the National Theatre for free. It was projected onto the side of a building. I’ll do my best to describe it, so there was a couple of people that made some music (drums and such) and some one that was “singing” to it. It was more like talking with some occasional note changes in a musical way. This singing was telling a story about Fly Boy and the robot. So while he was singing they put up these cutout silhouettes on the projector that they moved around. It was so weird! But so hilarious because it was just out there! I don’t know if I’ll ever understand modern art. It made for a good chuckle though! So yeah it was a fun day!
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