Vacation Pictures: Salisbury & Stonehenge

Dale took me on a day trip to see Stonehenge on Mon Dec 13th as part of my London Birthday trip :)

To get to Stonehenge we took the train from London to Salisbury (we boarded the train at King's Cross Station)

From Salisbury to Stonehenge it's just a 15-20 minute drive

And Salisbury is a really nice quaint town! 

I felt like I was on the set of Coronation Street LOL

Here are a few pictures of Salisbury.....

At the train station in Salisbury we boarded this bus that took us to Stonehenge

Dale didn't sleep much the night before so I was joking that Stonehenge might be more interesting to him  because he might see the stones moving (like, you know how you see things when you're lacking sleep?)

This barricade only went up awhile ago because one of our taxi drivers in London said he use be able to sit on the stones in Stonehenge and hang out there with his buddies years ago

Dale and I cracked a lot of jokes here because well, although it is really nice to see Stonehenge it is a bunch of stones after all (I probably just offended a whole lot of historians) 

So I was joking that this big lone stone (pictured above) was "the stone that didn't make it"

I joked that the people (not aliens!) who made Stonehenge got too tired dragging stones and just left this one behind hehe 

Dale joked it wasn't a big enough stone to be part of Stonehenge - so that's why it was left behind

Hey! We gotta make our trip exciting right?!! :P 

In the Stonehenge gift shop, there were so many "perfect" (photoshopped?) pictures of Stonehenge that Dale and I were like, "THAT doesn't look like what's out there"

The stones just seemed more scattered and fewer in real life than in those "nice" pictures

So we were kidding that it's a hoax and that if we jumped the barricade, we'd discover the stones are made of cardboard and styrofoam LOL

And then there's that big question as to why was Stonehenge made?

Well, between 1600-3100 BC when Stonehenge was in the making, there weren't any English pubs, TV, Internet, nightclubs and all that fun stuff.....so I joked that this was their form of entertainment - lugging huge stones around :P

Okay okay...all joking aside, I do agree with one of our cab drivers in London that the people who made it most likely did it for religious reasons - because like he said, why would people make such an effort to do something if they weren't going to get anything out of it? Makes sense. 

Sooo.....who thinks Aliens made Stonehenge? 

Okay, what about those crop circles?!