Longtown Castle

Monday, October 19, we went to Longtown castle.

Before doing that we were at home, building card houses. Jack, Landon and I were making them and unfortunately people stepped on them. I was lucky because I had a horse. The horse was Jack's Leatherman (knife), a perfect horse. We each had our own face (card) too, Jack was the jack of hearts, Landon was the jack of spades, and I was the queen of spades, because the clubs were the royal family, so I could not be clubs. The jack of diamonds has a crazily painted stick which I didn't like but the queen of spades has a spear which I do like.

When we learned that we were going to the castle, no big deal, but when mom said we might go to Arthur's Stone we made a petition for: No Arthur's Stone!, and signed it. We asked Elizabeth to sign it but she didn't want to, we asked Mom and she said "No!" but when we asked Dad he was not pleased, so Jack crumpled it.

At the castle we parked and started to walk to the castle. We walked through a stone gateway in a stone wall and onto a dirt path across the lawn and up a stairs.

The castle was like a big circle tower on a man-made hill.

Inside it had no roof, and there were marks of a spiral staircase. The windows were big and you could climb up to them on the broken wall, which we did. The view was of Welsh countryside, green! We found a hanging toilet on this tower too. That is a bathroom that hung on the outside of a house/wall. This one was on the second floor of the tower. When Jack and Landon and I were finished climbing around the tower, we went back down the stairs. I noticed the first part of the stairs was nice because when you walk down you don't have to mind the stairs, you just walked straight down.

We climbed on the outside wall around the whole thing.

Before we started to the car there was a garden that we (minus Jack he was still on the wall) went into before we went home.

We didn't go straight home though, we stopped at a grocery store where we got ice cream and a few odd groceries.