Hello everyone,
Today was our last day with the small wind group and we went on a field trip to visit a test area that had 18 wind turbines that were being tested.  It was on the edge of the largest wind turbine farm in the United Kingdom.   It was interesting and taught me a lot about turbines, but I am glad to leave wind behind for the next few days.
The best part of today was that here in Britain they celebrated Guy Fawkes day.  I have put the information about Guy Fawkes at the bottom of this blog so you can learn about him and what he did.  But the fun part of today/tonight was the fireworks and bonfires that are going on all around the town.  They had fireworks  and people sort of combined Halloween with Guy Fawkes and dressed up in costumes.  It was a lovely time and I am sure Alli and Micah remember celebrating Guy Fawkes Day while we were here with them.

We ended the lovely day with a wonderful dinner at an Indian restaurant and now are ready for bed.  Tomorrow we move and both of us are looking forward to it.

Love to all
Me


Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformators. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.
Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the drawing and quartering that followed.
Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is burned on a bonfire, often accompanied by a firework display