Sunday, we found a congregation to attend church with and then had a lovely drive through Windermere, where Beatrix Potter lived. It was quite crowded with tourists that day so we didn't stop, but it was such a charming town that we will definitely come back and take it all in. We were on a wonderful windy valley road with such alluring rocky hillsides surrounding us that I was just itching to stop in the middle of anywhere and hike to the top of one. Jon said "what's stopping us?" So we did. And it was the best part of our trip.
We hopped over fences, climbed under and over stone walls, around the thistle and through the tall grasses and ferns all the way to the tippy top! We were probably at it for around two hours with some of it being very steep, but the children were awesome and exuberant with not one complaint.
We made it back down pretty quickly and stopped at Ullswater for some well deserved ice creams and a boat ride.
We wandered into Penrith for dinner, Angel's fish and chips with brown curry dipping sauce is the best we've had yet. We got our order to go and walked to a nearby park with you know, just another castle ruins across from the McDonalds. It started to rain so we picnicked under the park gazebo and played on the merry go round in the playground when it had let up.
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