Today is the early May Bank Holiday in the UK. This means that hubby is off work, Bean does not have school and Gerbie's nursery school is closed. But I, officially, should be working today. I work for a US company, so I would not be entitled to UK holidays. Some of the holidays may match up. However, there are quite a few that don't. And then there are holidays that I will get off, that the rest of the family will not, including the Fourth of July. Even though this holiday falls in the summer, Bean will still be in school. Her school year does not end until July 15th. As for today, I ended up taking a little holiday of my own -- a vacation day, so that I could spend the day with my family. So what does my title have to do with any of this? Well, today, we saw the mansion that was used as the backdrop of the movie Pride and Prejudice, when Darcy meets Elizabeth. This mansion was originally built in the 1500's. It is an impressive mansion and the way we saw it today is how it looked in the 1700's. I think the dining room in this place is bigger than our entire house. I have a picture of the front of the mansion, the side view which includes some of the garden and the back view, which also includes the pond. This mansion is located at Lyme Park. We toured inside the house, walked through all the gardens in the back and saw the flower maze. It was chilly and it rained on us quite a few times, but in England, you can't let rain stop you or you would never do anything! I even attached a picture to show that Gerbie had her buckeye spirit in place today. OH-IO.
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