At nine o'clock am on Thursday the 22nd of October, we stood out side the Infants door and waited for the Mike Halford's coach to arrive. Well, it arrived dead on time, infact if anything , a bit early . We loaded on to the coach or the bus( what ever you like to call it). Soon we arrived at Lulworth and got off the coach. We were taken over to the Castle , first along the gravel path, then up the big steps and in the door. If the Weld family still lived there we would not have been allowed in that entrance. We visited a couple of rooms then went on to be split up into groups . I was in group 1 , there were two groups one went to the Victorian kitchen , whilst the other went on a tour of the Castle. The Victorian kitchen was amazing , they had all sorts of things ,I thought it would probably have been easier to use a knife. The Victorians were into implements in a big way, then we went to the alcohol store, they had so many USED bottles of wine it was unbelievable! Then we came out of the front door and headed towards the chapel. It was illegal to have it built so it does not look like a chapel. We went in the chapel and we looked on the ceiling and there was a very big and beautiful painting of the clouds with angles on it playing musical instruments. We headed back to the castle and we went up the tower and saw a few army tanks shooting number targets. And then we went down and counted 132 steps and then we had our lunch and it was very nice too. Then we went to the gift shop and it was very expensive.

At Lulworth first we went to the Heritage centre and Maddy told us about types of rock. There was Portland, Greensand and Wealdon, Chalk, Limestone. After that we set off and we went up a steep hill and stopped on the clifftop and saw that it had plants growing on top of it .We looked at the different types of rock. We walked on and soon we came to a place where we left the path and walked onto a beach and then to the dolls house which started its life as a garden shed.

Soon we stopped off at a duck pond and for the rest of the walk we had to spot what the houses and walls were made out of (the walls were mainly made out of portland but the houses were made out of manure and plaster.) When we got back to the Heritage Center we got on a bus and went to the top of a hill and got dropped off near Durdle Door. On the way down the only rules were not to go in front of her and don't throw stones on the beach. At

the beach we had a seaweed competition to see who could find the weirdest bit of seaweed. And Waldo found it. It was a man eating seaweed plant. After all the excitement we walked back to the bus and started the long journey home.

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