Wales!

I just wanted to add a little tip to the posts I put up from Facebook. The albums I post here are public so you don't have to be a member of Facebook to click and view the pictures.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=159271&id=697335714&l=354a2316d9

If you click on the pictures you can read our comments which will technically be our "blog" as Trey helped me with remembering the historical details. Here are my superficial comments:

We LOVED Wales. We could see ourselves living there. It had everything you need including huge department stores, a Staples and quaint shops in this quaint, adorable and city full of character. The people would literally go out of their way to help you if you looked lost. The public transportation was sufficient and the prices were so much lower than London. There was one downside to our trip and it was the hostel… whoops, I mean hotel. We stayed at the Etap Hotel Cardiff Centre. It was awful. It is owned and run by the same company that runs Motel 6 in the U.S. and the U.K. already has lower standards for hotels. You walked in and it looked clean and sufficient. They you tired to get comfortable anywhere and it was impossible. The bed was literally comparable to a table with some towels on it. I woke up at one point and thought “oh thank God, its morning!” only to look at my cell phone and realize it was 2 AM. I then woke up every hour until 6:30 at which point I begged Trey to get up and get ready so we could go downstairs to the lobby until we had to leave. Even with the exhaustion of the night before the city made it all better. We were particularly enthralled with Llandaff Cathedral which got its own Facebook album. Unfortunately, our nice camera died almost immediately after we arrived so the pictures aren’t the best quality. I am just grateful we bought a camera that would fit in my purse (it also takes video which our Nikon D60 doesn’t... just splurge and get the D90 people, you won’t regret it.) Ultimately, it is a shame that this country isn’t as well travelled as much of the U.K. because it was just fantastic.

Lastly, here are the pictures specifically of Llandaff Cathedral.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=159291&id=697335714&l=62d1038c64