sightseeing on the isle of man

C here talkin about the IOM...so, the Isle of Mann..sightseeing...so we went to castletown and saw a cute old school building where they taught writing. we also went to craigneesh (sp?), which is an olden day kind of town. they have no electricity and all the houses have thatched rooves and it is really cool, so we go there and the first house is just a regular house only everything is from way back when. the best part was that Jacob and Benji started asking where the food is...and they didn't stop! after a while she finally gave in a started making bread. Jacob then proceeded to ask why she didn't go to TESCO (the only grocery store here) and she asked what it was he told her...blah blah blah for like five minutes and finally it ended with him bragging that he had a TESCO...it was funny and cute. the next house (and last house that we went to) was the spinning house. this lady took wool and she showed us how to make it all fine and then how to spin it...it was really neat, and she made the boys wool chains that we turned into necklaces, it was cool.
the next day we ventured ALL the way across the island (all ten minutes) and we first went to the isle of man museum which was cool but not as cool as our next stop, which was the house of Manannan! it was really cool, it brought you through the whole history of the Isle of Man, starting with the vikings and through the celts and the christians and the fishers and everyone, it looked really cool and was really amazing. After the house of manannan we went to this castle, i forget what it was called but it was just the ruins of an old castle and you could go into the grounds and hike all over the place inside through all of the buildings that were falling apart and on the wall surrounding it. it was AMAZING!!! we even saw a basking shark right off the coast and also some seals :)
After the castle we took off and went to get some REALLY REALLY GOOD icecream...really good. oh yeah...we went to see the house off the movie Waking Ned Divine...it was so cool, we saw the house and it was on the beach where there were a lot of rocks and shells, each of us got enough shells to fill all our pockets...i went further that the rest and climbed onto this HUGE rock island thingy, but while i was on there the tide came in and filled the river area that i had to cross to get back with water...i could have just taken off my shoes and walked through it (cause it wasn't THAT deep) but it was also full of jellyfish!!! no joke! ...but thanks to Michael i got across by jumping from rock to rock holding his arm (cause seriously the rocks weren't stable and barely above the water, for a minute i thought i wasn't going to be able to get across) but i survived with only the bottom of my pant legs wet :) whew! after that not much happened...we went home and had a late late dinner of chicken cordon bleu, mashed potato's, green beans, and cheesecake...yum yum