Happy Anniversary...England style.

Salt Lake City Temple - April 25, 1992

Bath, Engalnd - April 25, 2009

Who would ever thought 17 years ago that we would be in Bath, England on our 17th wedding anniversary. Especially, since I spent my 10th in Home Depot. (I swore when I got married that no matter what, on milestone anniversaries we would do something neat regardless of our financial situations. That was before life with a mortgage.) Anyway, today was a huge surprise for me. The little reading that I had don't on this had me interested, but I didn’t quite know what to expect. We arrived in Bath, England a little later than planned, because we stayed in London late (1:30am late) and were too tired on Saturday morning to get up any earlier. Bath , the town, is very quaint and cute...as you can see from pictures it has narrow streets and cute buildings. It has more “regular shopping” than some of the other towns, which didn’t interest me at all, however. We first visited the main attraction, The Roman Bath…built in the first century. The Romans thought they had found a “God” given miracle bath that had healing powers. What of course we know today, is that hot springs have many minerals in it that help heal skin problems. At one point, I forgot what happened, the bath and temples were covered up and not discovered again until the 12th century. A town was built on top of it and after continual flooding they discovered the hot springs. It was used for some of the same reasons again for the next 6 centuries. Today it is just a tourist spot. It was crazy to walking around where people prayed, bathed and socialized back 2,000 years ago. The site has been somewhat restored so we can get a feel of what is was like. But, much of it is left in it’s original state. After that we walked the town, saw a Rugby game, ate a “pasty”, and saw a little of an organ concert in the Cathedral...or "Abby" as they call it.

Entrance sign to the Roman Baths


Up above Roman Baths...present day, street level


Healing baths in their "Temple"

Social Bath House

1st century hot spring drain...still used today. Orange color a product of the zinc in the water.

Steve testing the water...

The only rain we experienced, and it was only a sprinkle...pretty lucky for that time of the year.

Checking out a Rugby game. Bath's Rugby team is really good? The sport is a little confusing to me.

Steve's favorite find...Pasties. They are a pastry shell filled with anything from chicken and vegetable to ham and cheese to steak and potato to Thai. It didn't matter to Steve...he loved them all.

Taken in the main part of town with the "Abby" in the background.

Castle Comb Cotswold...he couldn't refuse seeing it again!

On our way out of Bath and back to London for the night...Steve took a little short cut through another Cotswold town called Castle Comb...which ended up being his favorite one.

Steve in the center of "The Street" Yes that's it name.

Cute bridge and about the 50th picture taken of the town.

The End.