another tsupid tsunami

did you know the words "stupid" and "tsunami" start with the same three letters? weird huh. but you'd never think of that, because they're in different order. in the subject line of this post i have altered the spelling of the word "stupid" to illustrate this phenomenon.

anyways, i'm getting kind of tired of posting pictures, and you're probably tired of seeing them, because i took too long to put them up after i got back. so i won't put up many more, because there are other things to talk about. but since i already built this post, here it is.

after our day tour of Scotland, we took a night train from Edinburgh to Cardiff, Wales. cardiff was a very pleasant place to stay. this is our first view of that fair city. note the Starbucks next to the Pure Rugby store. so you can get your joe after picking up your fave scrum sled. (i just used the words "joe," "fave" and "scrum" in the same sentence. ha!)

then we toured this "museum" of Welsh history where they'd brought old celtic buildings from all over the country to this one place so you can see them all. this, however, is not an ancient welsh building, but a cork tree, which was soft and spongy and oh so huggable.

this IS an old welsh building. it's a farm house from 1620 or something. they painted stuff red back then because they thought the color red scared away evil spirits. but, i was thinking, satan is red in every picture you see. how does that work? :)

this is the stadium close to our hostel. it's build like a giant ship. kinda strange, but whatever. our hostel is kind of behind that tree on the left.

this is natalie waiting patiently at a bus stop. this was right after we toured an old Manor and felt somewhat transported back in time because everyone there was dressed in period clothes, and the whole place seemed just like it hadn't changed for three centuries. read about it in this post.

this is Cardiff Castle and Moat, also close to our hostel. we didn't ever go inside this one, but we walked around it and it was really pretty in the evenings.

this is a little welsh village we drove through on our way to somewhere.

oh, right! that Somewhere is probably Caerphilly Castle, in a town called Caerphilly. (that'd be pronounced carefully - i mean, not that you pronounce it carefully, but like the word carefully. never mind.) this was the best castle of all. it was old and crumbly and rocky. for further information on this and other Wales attractions we saw, read my earlier post about wales (same link as before). in this picture, there is a man walking in a weird way, with weird (tight black) pants on.
this is the inner courtyard of the castle, and natalie next to the well. sadly, the well had been filled in, but i thought it would be neat to throw stuff in it and NOT hear it hit the bottom. but maybe that's how it got filled up in the first place. :}
here's me in the great room. i liked the great room.
i also had the opportunity to be in a grand fireplace without being burned up.

while i was in said fireplace, even though flames were not burning me up, and there weren't any flames at all, i made this face:

this castle was cuddly and huggable too!

natalie on a ruined wall.

we did other cool stuff in wales too. actually this is the only place we stayed two nights (other than london).

anyways. on to more important things, such as eating and wrestling. thanks for reading, friends!