ROMANNZZZZ

Solved a puzzle (kind of) with pat (sae's gran) this morning...

Had a brunch of ..
John (Sae's grandpa) called it a "Toastie"-
i believe "toasted cheese sandwich" would be the right phrasing-
of mature cheddar.
interesting, definitely, also definitely good...

dropped John off at the hospital (where he volunteers, and used to work) and then went to see some of the roman remains just outside of Cardiff. . .

Went to the bath house first, which was amusing if for absolutely no reason other than the fact that, where the bath used to be, they were projecting fake water and some video of poeple swimming.. and some text that was usually squiggly or in circles or upside down, and thus difficult to read >>

hm, got to touch and see a lot of artifacts and artifact recreations (mostly cleaning items) which was rather neat...

walked along, and ended up playing a quiz game in Welsh (which kriz one by sheer luck alone) which was great fun just because of the fact we didn't understand a damn thing...

go back out and into the car, and we went to go see the remains of the Ampitheatre the romans had built-
which was, in a word..
AMAZING.
just....wow.
quiet, calm....
would have been excellent to picnic there, truly....
great for climbing and running and jumping and, just..
amazing.
Would love to go back, definitely....

and after was across the street to where the foundation of the legion barracks were still intact, and got a good giggle out of a kid who was complaining that she didn't get to spend her money (because she was being a whiny little bitch ;3)
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also a nice giggle out of the fact that the drainage system for the toilets passed RIGHT next to one of the barracks. >>

Ah, walked back up to the museum proper, to look around. Have some charred human bone bits and the like, lots of old gravestones-
and among my personal favorite, quite a few old style keys.

in the back's a recreation of am army barracks, and some kids games...
one of which was two "toilets" filled with balls of various shades (mostly blue) and you had to find ten fake mice in there.
um.
no thank you.
it smells like an actual toilet in this hall, why would i stick my hand into a fake toilet ?!

and then it's out into the gardens.
and all you need to know about the gardens?
severed leg+severed hand+chives=dinner.

hmhm, last thing we did out with pat today was go down to the FFwrwm (i think it's more or less pronounced Forum) to catch a drink and view some of the art, which, overall, was either AWESOME or FRIGHTENING.(art is like that)

edit: Pictures from today