Chatsworth

Today the group went to Chatsworth; the stately country home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Going to Chatsworth always makes me think of Hyacinth from Keeping Up Appearances. It seems like a place she would love to be. All that was missing was a large hat and white gloves.
I've been there once before and last time it was pouring down rain. Luckily for us, today there was very little rain and just lovely weather. Hank and I were able to wander through the large gardens and see more of the place than we were able to last time. I love the Chatsworth gardens. They seem to go on forever and are full of ponds, statues and little rock caves. There's even a maze...although if I were to build a maze it would be much more difficult and be full of people jumping out at you. My favorite part about the gardens were the rock caves paths.
The house itself is lovely and very pretty inside. I'm much more of an outdoors person, but I can appreciate the plush velvet sofas and beautiful paintings too. On each of the chairs and sofas there were thistles to discourage people from sitting. Too bad, they looked comfy. Hank loved the library (of course!) and I liked the dress up area...Hank was forced into one of the dress up wigs by Shelly and Mary. I think there's a picture floating around somewhere.
Surrounding Chatsworth are sheep. Thousands of lambs and sheep. I loved how you could look onto the countryside and see white specks of lamb everywhere. I would love a lamb to take home. A little white one with a black nose and black feet. I wonder what Max would think of that!