Roman Exhibition

Today we went to the Roman exhibition. 

It is for it how to be famous and rich in roman times. They made a special course for kids for how to be rich and wealthy. We did very well at it. They had a game called romenolpoly. We played several times.

We went to another section and we found out how the graves were built. We hd to look at the wording they put on the graves.

This is a roman toga and they look and feel ugly. 

Famous houses in Lavenham

While we where in Lavenham So we saw some famous houses in the town. This is where the writer of twinkle twinkle little star lived here.  Her name was Jane Taylor and she wrote it in 1806.

A Harry Potter scene was filmed here. It was in the movie the Deathly Hallows part two.

The De Ver house is where a Count called De Ver lived. It is rumoured that he was the one to write all of Shakespear's work.  But we can't prove anything.  Here are some photos.

Does this look like its in a magic movie. 

Medieval houses in Lavenham

Today we went to Lavenham. We went to Lavenham so We Could look at all the houses Because They where wonky. They where built in the 1500s.
There called half timber houses Because it's mostly wood and the bits in beween what made from mud or a sort of cement.
Did you know thatthey Could not dry the wood so They made ​​them in green and tilted it over? Here are some photos of the houses.

Norwich Castle

Today we went to the Norwich Castle. It was a really nice castle with fun dress ups, games and lots more. Mum and I had a go at a game called Goose and Fox. I beat her really quickly and easily. They had it all set up for kids. 

The main object of the game is to Goose and Fox is to beat the other player. You beat them by either being the fox and eating all the geese, or by being the goose and cornering and trapping the fox.

This is how you play.
1. You need a special board to play on. I have taken a photo of it below.
2. You need 13 white counters and 1 black counter.

Here are my photos

Goose and fox game board.

The nine mans Morris game board.

A cool door from back then.

Weapons from the Norwich castle

The weapons in Norwich castle where in great shape.
They had lots to explore about weaponry in the medieval times - so we will come back later.

One of my favourite things to do was to shoot a trebuchet at a wall which I built. I got it in one shot.

Here are some of the photos that I got while I was there there.

This is a medievel knight.



This is the brick wall I built to knock down with my trabuchet

Here I am aiming to get wall knocked down.

This is a Norman. 

Here are some more armour. Its called plate mail, but its not a full set. 

Fastnacht carnival.

Today and yesterday we went to two different  carnivals. One in the town did we are in and Mainz in one. The one in the little town is my favourite. 

Fastnacht  is on the Sunday and Rosen Montag is in Mainz on the Monday.

1.Because first t here was not as many people. 
2 There was no glass bottles all over the place. 
3 We Could Get lots of stuff. 

Fun fact, Did you know that the carnival is to scare away the winter. Here are some of the photos I took.

Me in my onesy.

The Star Wars group was my favorite group.

This is just awesome how much time they will want to put in to the costume.

Look at the guy in the horsehead. You would not think to drink beer from inside it but he did.

Hessisches Puppen Museum

Today we went to the Hessisches doll museum. it had lots of toys and dolls. There were dolls dating back to the Greek times and about 1000 dolls spread around the place. 

Here are the photos I took.