Saturday we visited Oxburgh Hall, a castle-like manor house in the Norfolk countryside. The house is surrounded by a moat--very cool! Queens and Kings (like Elizabeth I and James I) have stayed at the house, and the Bedingfield family still lives in part of the house after 500 years! Also on display at the house are several embroideries done by Mary Queen of Scots. (Below: I'm standing in one of the towers on the roof.)
Our favorite part of the tour was the priest's hole in the King's quarters where Catholic priests could be hidden during the tumultuous years when Catholicism was prohibited. We crawled into the tiny hole that was the King's toilet (not joking) and into the room hidden behind the wall. It was a bit freaky crawling into (and back out of) the small hole (especially knowing what has also traveled through that hole), but it was really cool! Below, Jacob is checking out some of the moat-maintenance equipment.
We also visited Grime's Graves, a prehistoric (Bronze Age) flint mine near where we live. We were able to descend through the heavily cratered grassy landscape into one of the excavated shafts. No photos, but kinda cool.
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