tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25453527508059235512024-03-18T21:54:31.287-07:00good old chinwagadventures living in the UKgoodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-37445175544333563732014-02-16T14:10:00.003-08:002014-02-16T14:10:39.870-08:00Bittersweet Goodbye<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>"What you risk reveals what you value."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>-Jeanette Winterson</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We took a risk. We packed up and left a city we had lived in for 20+ years, moved our children thousands of miles away from their friends and family, and took the ultimate chance. I am so glad we did. We taught Henry and May that RISK IS GOOD. It's isn't always easy. It is scary. It can be daunting. But it taught us all about being flexible, curious and to enjoy one anothers company. It taught us that we value adventure, travel and that we like learning about new things. It exposed us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We jumped right in and made the most of our time living in the UK. We moved at the perfect time...time to help the Queen celebrate her 60 years on the throne, time to see London shine bright at the Summer Olympics and time to welcome a new royal Prince into our adopted country. We came to understand what makes the British people tick...their quirky humour, their sensibility, their love of a Sunday Roast at their local pub, and their love all things to do with the weather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We took a risk. We hiked, swam, dirt scootered, beach combed, safaried, walked, canoed, jumped, ran and biked our way all over the UK, Europe and Africa. We lived a normal life in Twyford. Our kids were the only Americans in a British school. Henry played cricket...a game that we still don't understand but he does. May competed against elite British gymnasts and discovered that she is great at other sports too. Pete strengthened his job credentials substantially along with a renewed business confidence. I became an expat and understand the quick friendships that form with other expats - friendships lead an accelerated life when you are an expat. They have too. People come and go so fast. We also formed some deep friendships with the lovely people of Twyford. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>-Miriam Beard</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our idea of living has changed. We learned that wherever we are, as long as we are together, that is home. We learned that we don't need a "huge" house to be comfortable...sometimes smaller is cozier. We re watched the entire series of "Friends" and exposed our kids to many inappropriate, 20-something, scenarios. We saw the way other cultures live, in mud huts, no shoes, blurred-cataract eyes, but with a sense of family and community so strong as to seem unbreakable. We felt the simple pleasures of walking to town, to the shops, mean so much more now that we have been forced to re-acclimate to the "American" way...in the car...all...the...time. We embraced the Sunday tradition of a long country walk in the woods, no matter the weather, with a follow up Sunday roast at the local pub. Life slowed down, but not idle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>-Marcel Proust</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We have new eyes. They have been opened, opened wide with all of our experiences and memories. Opened wide with new friendships and the confidence that only travel can bring. Our eyes are open to an enduring love of all things British: bunting, Cadbury chocolates, Nutella (not technically British but we learned to love it in Britain), bangers and mash, the impeccable driving skills all Brits possess, chips, the unique slang/lingo, crisps, a proper cuppa tea, biscuits, a pint of warm ale, how great a Pimms or a gin and tonic taste on a hot day, windy, rocky beaches, fields of sheep, the fascination of all things Royal, British bacon, the wearing of hats to social events, horse racing, the Tube, Harrods, the beauty of the British countryside, the pomp and circumstance, London cab drivers, and the fierce pride that the Brits have for their country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we say pip pip and cheerio to our adopted home. We say HIP HIP HOORAY to Great Britain. We return to the US of A with open eyes, new ideas in how we want to live and with the satisfied knowledge that we jumped at a chance of a lifetime and took a risk. Well done to us.</span>goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-90973739117026986922013-12-17T06:23:00.001-08:002014-01-15T07:42:26.758-08:002013 Year in ReviewHard to believe another year has come and gone...everyone says that right? I have finally figured out why time flies so fast, especially as you get older. When you were little, waiting 12 sleeps until Santa came seemed like eternity - how could you stand it? Then when you were in college (20 years old), having to go to summer school for 6 weeks seemed liked a lifetime (and a death sentence). But now living abroad for the past two years seems like it just flew by! Didn't we just pack up our entire house, sell 1/3 of our stuff, and move to an entirely different continent? Didn't that just happen? Didn't we just get here? And, now, we are going home already? WTF?<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Time flies when you are having fun, making memories, experiencing the world with a whole new perspective and trying to drive on the left side of the road without mangling your entire family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As we enter into a new year, here is a quick peak into some highlights of 2013. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">We came. We saw. We conquered.</span></div>
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<strong>JANUARY 2013</strong></div>
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So lucky to have one of my BFs come for a visit! Cathie and I met in Paris for a couple of days and then "Eurostared" it back to London so she could check out our hood, crib and look for Prince Harry.</div>
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<strong>What We Learned:</strong></div>
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That January in Paris is lovely but cold and possibly snowy. </div>
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Travelling on the Underground with large suitcases, on a Friday, during rush hour/commute time, can make you sweaty.</div>
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Wearing a jaunty hat you bought in Paris is a commitment-once it's on, it needs to stay on, or risk severe jaunty hat head.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning power walk to the Tour Eiffel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaunty Parisian hats in London</td></tr>
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<strong>FEBRUARY 2012</strong></div>
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Half term break brought a Davis family road trip in Ireland</div>
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<strong>What we learned:</strong></div>
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Irish roads are even more narrow than British roads.</div>
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Guinness is brilliant and so are the Irish folk.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cliffs of Mohr</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We enjoy staying in "manor" houses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our room is HUGE!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fish are hard to catch no matter where you are...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing donuts on the beach in your rental car is great fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ireland really <em>i</em><em>s</em> the "Emerald Isle"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guinness is good</td></tr>
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<strong>MARCH 2013</strong></div>
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Explored London and the surrounding area</div>
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<strong>What we learned:</strong></div>
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That no matter how many times we venture into London, we always discover another magical area...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seven Dials in Covent Garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May is great at running!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">England's countryside is mind-blowingly gorgeous!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A canal runs through Northern London - right outside of Paddington Station. Who knew?</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong>APRIL 2013</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
More BFs arrive - the Basch family comes to stay at Hotel de Davis. BFs reunited all around!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Hip hip hooray!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Davis fam rendezvous with Basch fam in Paris.<br />
Davis fam carries on to Bruge and Brussels<br />
<br />
<strong>What we learned:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
That no matter how far away you are from friends, you can always "pick up" where you left off, even at age 12.</div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
That Sir Tom Jones enjoys eating in Henley and Ty Burell likes "modern" art.</div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
That a duck confit sandwich and a glass of Proseco at the Borough Market might be the best lunch eva.</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pick Up" friends like no others</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sisters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beers as big as your head are good</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How can you not be all smiles in Paris?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Borough Market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stonehenge is cool!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir Tom Jones is sitting to the left of my large head, behind that door...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruge is charming</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seeing the world by bike ROCKS!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are a lot of windmills in Holland</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This dog might have the best napping spot ever!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fun art in Bruge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Singing in the rain in Brussels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always be prepared!</td></tr>
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<strong>MAY 2013</strong><br />
Camping with our new British friends in the New Forest.<br />
Swimming in the Thames River<br />
<br />
<strong>What we learned:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
Camping in England is the same as in America: takes forever to prep and get ready to go, campsite set up and take down is a pain in the ass, and cleaning up at home after camping sucks. But it sure is fun.</div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
Camping in England is different then camping in America: you must have a cricket and football pitch set up, instead of being worried about bears, one must mind the wild ponies and cows, and the showers and loos are spotless!</div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">
Swimming in the Thames in May sucks.</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brits and Americans <em>can</em> get along! Looks like we have buried the hatchet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camp cooking means a trip to the pub for dinner</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>JUNE 2013</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Visit from Gigi and Papa and trip up to the Yorkshire Dales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let the Social Season begin: Order of the Garder, Royal Ascot, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Wimbledon and the Henley Royal Regatta</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>What we learned:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes flights are delayed and you lose 3 days of visiting time :-(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Driving in a car with your in-laws, your two kids, your wife and a persnickety Sat-Nav for 5 hours blows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Her Royal Highness is teeny tiny whilst William is quite tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is nothing better than people watching at Royal Ascot and the Henley Regatta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wearing a hat is FUN!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wimbledon is everything (2 times!!) and attending with a member is the way to go in style!</span></div>
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Bolton Abbey<br />
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Kids will gladly hike with Gigi<br />
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Fish are hard to catch no matter where you are...<br />
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Fountains Abbey<br />
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Order of the Garter<br />
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HRH (the Queen), Prince of Wales (aka Charles), and Prince of Cambridge (aka William)<br />
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The Queen and Camilla<br />
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HRH the Queen at Royal Ascot<br />
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Chavs on the train<br />
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Chilly day at the races<br />
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Tailgating Wimbledon STYLE!<br />
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Centre Court<br />
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Great seats!<br />
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Watching from the "hill"<br />
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Great day of tennis - bucket list!<br />
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Perry, May and Hadley at the Regatta, daaaahling<br />
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Da boyz- Grover fitting in well with the red trousers!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">July 2013</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from the Holtzclaws!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from the Taylors!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from Gainer!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from Lentz!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from the Smiths!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from Stacey!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">May graduates from "primary" school!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A Royal Baby is born!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A visit from the Olsons!</span><br />
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Butter Beer at the Harry Potter Tour<br />
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Pints at the Duke of Wellington (local pub) with the Taylors!<br />
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Lentz, Gainer, Freeling and husbands (sans Dave) reunite in London!<br />
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Royal Baby mania in front of the Lindo Wing!</div>
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May's "house" wins the Polehampton Swimming Gala!<br />
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Year Six Leaver's Prom and feeling SASSY!</div>
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Best British Buds!<br />
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May graduates from Polehampton and on to "secondary" school!</div>
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Pints with Gibson!</div>
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Cousins on a hike in Turville</div>
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Catching the train to Edinburgh</div>
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Excited in Edinburgh</div>
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Pinkies UP! High tea in London!</div>
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Road trip to meet the Olsons in Normandy</div>
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More road tripping thru France and on in to Switzerland ~ 7 days hiking in Zermatt and Grindelwald</div>
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Henry turns 12 in Grindelwald, Switzerland</div>
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That having a French speaker whilst ordering in a French restaurant is important...especially when it comes to seafood.</div>
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Asian tourists in Switzerland make very poor shoe choices for hiking on glaciers and they sometimes like to stand and squat on TOP of the toilet.</div>
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A beach is an excellent place to do cartwheels!<br />
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I do love my Sister-in-Law!<br />
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Pete O., Grant and Henry frolicking in the sea!<br />
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Cousin time is the best time!<br />
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Beware of French restaurants by the sea if you don't speak French<br />
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The Mighty Matterhorn - took our breath away every time<br />
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Henry's birthday death march started out well...<br />
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Steep-Mummy was hyperventilating!<br />
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Sunny, snowy reflections - Henry can't take it!<br />
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Cold glacier fed streams feel good...<br />
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Zermatt is stunning!<br />
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Dirt scootering was a blast!<br />
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Like a postcard in Kandersteg<br />
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Gondola up is the way to hike...<br />
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Wild flowers!<br />
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We survived the death march and lived to celebrate Henry's 12th birthday in Grindelwald!<br />
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Yodelehehoooooooooooo!<br />
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They have no problem embracing their surroundings...<br />
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School starts again...both kids at the Piggott School!</div>
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A visit to Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)</div>
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That it was sure nice to have our house back to ourselves finally (just kidding...we loved having loads of visitors!)</div>
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Seeing the actual site of Downton was thrilling!</div>
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Jen can take non-family members on a death march and manage to get us lost on the 21 mile walk-ended up doing a couple more miles than needed.</div>
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A pint sure tastes great after a slog of a walk!</div>
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May Year 7 (6th Grade)<br />
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May and her mates<br />
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Henry Year 8 (7th Grade)<br />
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The start with Stacey and Kristin<br />
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Feeling pretty good<br />
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Quaint Cotswaldian homes</div>
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2 Brits and an American at Downton!</div>
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Having a cuppa at Highclere-not quite up to Lady Mary's<br />
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The grounds were lovely!<br />
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Love the door knockers at Highclere!</div>
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Cheeky Suzanne breaking all the rules on the current bell system at Highclere</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">OCTOBER 2013</span></strong><br />
A day trip to Corfe Castle<br />
A week in Florence - back to the scene of many crimes!<br />
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There really is nothing better than Italy: passionate people, gelato, vino rosso, gelato, fashion, art, gelato, sculpture, churches, pasta and gelato.</div>
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Thanksamas - a dual celebration of Thanksgiving and Christmas with the British Branstons</div>
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A decision to move back to the USA was made-Feb 2014!</div>
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Enjoyed the Christmas season in London </div>
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Amsterdam is charming and picturesque and still has a lot of "funny" smells</div>
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Henry Winkler might be the nicest man on the Planet Earth</div>
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Taking 2 international flights and 3 domestic flights will result in 3 out of 4 Davis family members getting the flu</div>
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That we should all have a Masters degree in "travel experts" - we ROCK!</div>
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Tulips in December</div>
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Nicest man ever!</div>
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J Crew comes to London just as I am leaving...</div>
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Sun Valley gangstas...</div>
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Rye sitting on Santa's lap</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well that is the year in review - not too shabby at all I must say. We are completely fortunate to have been able to experience all we did this past year! Sorry to be so braggy - look at us in all these awesome places. Just delete this entire post!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now we are into the 15 day countdown of our remaining days in the UK. So bittersweet but looking forward to being closer to our family and friends. See you in the US...although I am sure I will write one last UK blog before I go...</span></div>
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That is the question we ask ourselves every time we come home from Italy. </div>
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"Wouldn't it be nice to go back and spend some time by the beach?"</div>
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"Couldn't you hang out in this piazza, people watching, everyday?"</div>
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"I wish I could eat this gelato every day!"</div>
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"We should rent a Tuscan farmhouse this summer!"</div>
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Ah...Italia. We love you so.</div>
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This trip held a lot of significance for me personally. Living in Florence my junior year of college is what inspired my love of travel , solidified my independent spirit and created my life long love for all things Italia. So it was important to me to show Pete and the kids the town I called home and all the memories that are with me from Florence! </div>
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An 18 year old in Florence versus a 45 year old (with husband and two kids in tow) in Florence is a completely different experience, but it was so fun to practice my Italian (dismally I might add), haunt my old haunts and have the memories come flooding back. I wish my photo albums of 18 year old me weren't in storage back in the US...I could post some embarrassing pictures!</div>
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I tried to be much more organized this trip since our last trip to Rome was grossly under planned (I was working last year this time). I had reservations for dinner every night, had pre-booked tickets for the David, the Duomo and the Uffizi and generally had our days planned to maximize our days in Florence.</div>
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Walked the streets of Florence to get the lay of the land</div>
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Walked to my old hood in Piazza de la Cure and to Syracuse University in Piazza Savanarola</div>
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Accademia Galleria to see "David" (or the tall naked guy as we called him)</div>
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Bus to Fiesole for the sunset and a glass of vino in the piazza</div>
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Quick lap around the Duomo to find May a Florentine sketch book and squishy pigs for the kids</div>
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We booked a flat just minutes from the Duomo which was comfy, quiet and had everything we needed. We arrived late on a Friday night and immediately hit the streets in search of dinner and a glass of Chianti. Several people had recommended Cibreo which was conveniently located close by our flat. The waitress was great and immediately told us this was not a pizza and pasta place...which was fine by us. The kids had chicken meatballs, Pete had a salt crusted pork chop and I had a rabbit medallion filled with sausage and wrapped in prosciutto...YUM! We sat outside on the street, overlooking a bustling piazza filled with lots of young people drinking wine out of the bottle.</div>
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Saturday was busy and the streets flooded with tourists. We had gone to bed late the night before and slept til 10 so we got a bit of a late start ~ it's ok, we are in Italy! We wanted to escape the throngs of people so we hit the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens. Hot and muggy with lots of mosquitos but gorgeous views of the city and the surrounding hillsides. We wandered around the Oltro Arno all afternoon and ended up at a quaint street-side wine bar for a pre-dinner drink. A friend had recommended Vecchia Bettola for dinner and she was spot on. Delicious, spicy, vodka red sauce pasta was MAJOR. We entertained a little Italian boy while his family enjoyed dinner - there was a bit of a language barrier.</div>
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On Sunday, I dragged everyone to see where I studied at Syracuse University. Villa Rosa was the same as I remembered and it was a shame it was a Sunday and closed. We tried to find my flat on Via Brunetto Latini but I could not remember the address number and nothing looked familiar. The piazza in my hood was familiar and we stopped in a café for some espresso and Italian pastries.</div>
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A quick peak in to see the "David" and then a bus ride up to Fiesole for the sunset and a glass of wine.</div>
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Our day out with Beppe to the small Tuscan towns of San Gimignano, Montereggiano and Siena was excellent. Beppe was a character and although he wasn't a guide per se (really just a driver), he had lots of knowledge about the area. It was warm that day and just perfect for strolling these quaint towns. We did some shopping, some touring and some eating. Sitting in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, sun on our shoulders, eating gelato, will not be forgotten by any of us for a long time. We ended our day with a private wine tasting that Beppe arranged for us at Sant 'Appiano Winery. Lovely old Tuscan farm house that had been modernized into a small winery. The kids nervously had a go at tasting two of the wines...May made faces the whole time but I think Henry might have liked it a little too much...</div>
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Our last full day was busy with lots of walking, climbing the Duomo and touring the Uffizi, Santa Croce, Piazza della Signoria and San Lorenzo market. Our kids are not big museum people and the significance of the Uffizi was lost on them a bit but they can at least say they saw the "Birth of Venus". I loved seeing all the sculptures and of course the architecture! When we were in Paris, we didn't even go to the Lovre...oh well. Our day ended sitting outside at a lovely trattoria in Piazza Santa Croce. Three American students had set up their easels just beside us so May had a great time watching them paint and reporting back to us their progress.</div>
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It seemed smaller that I remember and much shorter distances to walk. My flat seemed like it was so far from the city, when in reality it was about a 20 minute walk.</div>
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Everything seemed really well maintained-the buildings, the art and the historical places. The frescos were bright, colourful and recently restored.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love contemporary art mixed with the luxurious gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favourite shots - public drinking fountain in the Boboli Gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was hot and humid with lots of mosquitos in the gardens-<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love these trips as the kids are forced to get along and play with one another-<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A walk down memory lane...standing on the street I lived on, <br />
although I couldn't remember which was our apartment...<br />
memory lane isn't too reliable anymore!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 14 towers of San Gimignano - at one time there were 72!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siena's Cathedral was incredible-favourite by far!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loved this whole setting with the old door and the prolific bougainvillea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely Tuscan light on not so lovely Italian hair with no blow dryer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lobby of our flat with Medici coat of arms = perfecto!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way up the Florentine Duomo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A LOT going on in this fresco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only way to eat gelato</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piazza Cisterna in San Gimignao</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn in Tuscany</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montereggiano</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another favourite picture!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piazza in Montereggiano</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine tasting...when in Rome, er, Florence!</td></tr>
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Villa Rosa-my school in Florence</div>
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Chasing pigeons...</div>
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Glass of wine in Fiesole</div>
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<li>Some of these suggestions are obviously the top things to do in London on the tourist meter and others are things that may be off the beaten path. You will notice that Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey aren't even on the list. I assume you will see those.</li>
<li> The list below is long and some we have experienced and others we have yet to explore (which is a great list for me!). </li>
<li>Most of these suggestions are appropriate for bigger kids and not the little guys.</li>
<li>The list is in no particular order but just a brain dump of ideas from me and other people I have asked for input.</li>
<li>Remember you can't do it all on just one visit-as Pete would say, "Pace yourself and don't over schedule". Ha Ha, you would think he would know me after 20 years together? Over schedule is my middle name!</li>
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<li><strong>Gary Egerton/Diplomatic Guide Services</strong> ~ Gary is a Blue Badge guide who is great with kids! Gary picked us up in an air conditioned van and drove us all over London. He timed the Changing of the Guard at Horse Guard Parade and Buckingham Palace to the second and without any crowds. He was great with the kids and knew when to speed things up when they were getting fidgety. He is a former high level police officer for the Royal Family and various Prime Ministers. He had great stories! He arranged our Ceremony of the Keys tour at the Tower of London. He also does a grown up only tour of the Tower of London at night which includes a couple of pints at the pub inside the Tower of London with the Yeomen and then the Ceremony of the Keys. We have not done the pub night but seems like it would be super fun . <a href="http://www.diplomatic-guide-services.co.uk/index.html">http://www.diplomatic-guide-services.co.uk/index.html</a> </li>
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<li><strong>The Attendant</strong> ~ A public restroom turned café. Tables are old, converted urinals and the food is pretty good. <a href="http://www.the-attendant.com/">http://www.the-attendant.com/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Imperial War Museum</strong> ~ Newly reopened after a year of being closed for remodelling. Not to be confused with Churchill War Rooms. <span style="color: #009030;"><a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/">www.<strong>iwm</strong>.org.uk</a></span></li>
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<li><strong>Any West End play ~</strong> We have seen Wicked, The Lion King, Stomp, Book of Mormon (definitely not appropriate for kids but AWESOME for adults), and Once. On our list with the kids is Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For the big shows you need to order tickets in advance and they are expensive. If you can go on the fly, hit up the TKTS booth in Leicester Square and you can get some of the less popular shows at a discount on that day. <span style="color: #009030;"><a href="http://www.tkts.co.uk/">www.<strong>tkts</strong>.co.uk</a></span></li>
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<li><strong>Covent Garden/Trafalgar Square</strong> <strong>street performances ~ </strong>Always some fun and interesting performances and the kids love them</li>
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<li><strong>Churchill War Rooms</strong> ~ This is great museum that can be done in an hour and the kids loved it. <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms">http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms</a></li>
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<li><strong>Hyde Park</strong> ~ Rent boats on the water, get a Barclays bike and ride thru the park, there is always something going on in Hyde Park</li>
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<li><strong>The London Eye</strong> (do not recommend the London Aquarium) ~ The kids loved this but the wait in line can be long. Some friends bought the fast pass and said it was worth it. Never done it at night but apparently it is excellent!</li>
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<li><strong>Harry Potter Studio Tour ~</strong> We did this tour with the Taylors this summer and it was a hit for all of us! All Harry Potter fans should check it out! Really well done. You need to buy tickets in advance for a specific time-you can not get tickets the day you want to go! It is north of London by train about 20 minutes from Euston Station and then a shuttle takes you to the studio lot. <a href="http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/">http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/</a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><strong>Windsor Castle</strong> ~ Windsor Castle is my favourite tourist attraction in London! It is a great audio tour, you can see the changing of the guard (better and less crowded that Buckingham Palace) up close, Windsor and Eton are charming villages to explore and it is a working castle - the Queen is there a lot of the time. Make sure to check the website to see if the Changing of the Guard is scheduled (they skip days in the winter/spring months) and to see if there is anything else going on (kitchen tours, climbing the main tower, etc). The Royal Guard's Band marches through the streets of Windsor about 10:50 AM and then into the Castle so make sure you are inside the castle well before 11 to get a good spot. Make sure you do the audio guide as it tells the fascinating history of the castle, St. George's Chapel, and the Knights of the Garter. Windsor Castle is easy to get to from London and takes about 25 minutes. <a href="http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/windsorcastle">http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/windsorcastle</a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><strong>Stonehenge</strong> ~ I had low expectations about Stonehenge (just a bunch of rocks) but was pleasantly surprised by the experience and the audio tour. Lots of good people watching (always some nutters floating about the stones with staffs and crystals). We drove there and then went to Bath but I know there are bus tours and trains that take you to Salisbury from Waterloo Station in London (90 minutes) and then you take a cab from the train station to Stonehenge. <a href="http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/">http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Bath</strong> ~ Tour the ancient Roman baths in this charming town. Great combo day trip with Stonehenge if you can get an early start. Great kid's audio guide too! <a href="http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/default.aspx">http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/default.aspx</a></li>
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<li><strong>Hampton Court Palace</strong> ~ Another beautiful place outside of London on the River Thames. It is known as King Henry VIII "party house" back in the day and has gorgeous gardens and a cool hedge maze. I think you can take a boat along the Thames from Westminster (although it can take up to 4 hours depending on the tides) or the train from Waterloo station is about 35 minutes. <a href="http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/Hampton%20Court%20Palace">http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><strong>Regent Park</strong> ~ A pretty park with gorgeous gardens and near the London Zoo. We went there the first weekend we were here but have not been back since nor to the Zoo (hard to do the zoo after Africa :-)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><strong>Portobello Road/Notting Hill</strong> ~ a cute little hood west of Hyde Park with the famed street market on Saturdays. Some of the shops are open other days of the week but the best day is Saturday. Our kids thought it was cool but might be more fun to do on your own...they liked getting a crepe the best.</li>
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<li><strong>Science Museum</strong> ~ I think we did this when we first got here and the kids weren't in school yet. I remember it was crowded because it was Easter break but that's all I remember-not a great endorsement huh?</li>
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<li><strong>Natural History Museum</strong> ~ We did this the same day as the Science Museum and it was too long a line to get in the dinosaur exhibit but the kids did like the hands on exhibits and the gift shop.</li>
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<li><strong>Princess Diana Playground</strong> ~ In Hyde Park near Kensington Palace and super fun for the younger kids. My kids were way too old (11 & 12).</li>
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<li><strong>Hop On Hop Off Bus tours</strong> ~ This is a great way to see all of London in a couple of hours and hear the history of the different neighbourhoods and tourist sites. What I like is that you can hop on and off at the different sites, check them out and then get back on. Usually the tickets are good for 24 hours too so you can use the bus the next day if needed. There are lots to choose from but Rick Steves (my go to guy) says the Big Bus Tour is the best and make sure to get a live guide and not the recorded guide. <a href="http://www.bigbustours.com/">www.bigbustours.com</a> </li>
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<li><strong>HMS Belfast</strong> ~ A great warship during the Second World War and she opened fire in support of Allied troops on D-Day. <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/hms-belfast">http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/hms-Belfast</a></li>
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<li> <strong>Cutty Sark</strong> ~ Recently redone it is the last surviving tea clipper and a tribute to the great history of British sailing. Near Greenwich Park <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark/">http://www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark/</a></li>
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<li><strong>London Dungeons</strong> ~ We have not done this yet as the kids think it might be too scary but I have heard it is good. <a href="http://www.thedungeons.com/london/en/">http://www.thedungeons.com/london/en/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Tate Modern</strong> ~ There are so many great FREE museums in London but my kids are not museum lovers. I have found that modern art is more their speed so the Tate is a fun one for them to see. And we saw Phil Dunphy there last April!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><strong>London Bridge Experience</strong> ~ Another dungeon/tomb experience that we have not done. <a href="http://www.thelondonbridgeexperience.com/">http://www.thelondonbridgeexperience.com/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Harrods, Selfridges and Liberty stores</strong> ~ London fashion is unique and nothing like I have ever seen and shopping is a must here. Harrods is fun to check out for the pure iconicness of it-the food hall and the toy section are great but very crowded! Prep yourself! Selfridges oozes poshness and lots of rich Russians and Middle Eastern women floating around. Liberty is sweet, flowery and is full of British charm. A must do!</li>
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<li><strong>Borough Market</strong> ~ This open-air market kicks Pike Place market's butt! <span class="teaser">Borough Market is London's oldest food market. It was established on the south bank of the Thames when the Romans built the first London Bridge and has occupied its present site for 250 years. </span>Bustling with crowds, delicious international smells, lotions and potions, this is the place to be on a Saturday (although it is open other days too - less crowded). Close to the Tate Modern, it is a great day trip to see the museum and then have lunch at one of the food stalls...I highly recommend the duck confit sandwich with a glass of Proseco! There is a cute side street with a bunch of hanging umbrellas across from the Black and Blue restaurant (Stoney Street and Rochester Walk) in a yard off of Park Street. <span style="color: #009030;">www.<strong>boroughmarket</strong>.org.uk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><strong>Boat ride on the Thames</strong> ~ There are lots of options to take a boat ride down the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridge and points in between. It is a fun way to see the city for sure but can be a tad expensive (but it all is really). If you want to do it James Bond style than check this high-speed option out: <a href="http://www.thamesribexperience.com/boats.php">http://www.thamesribexperience.com/boats.php</a></li>
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<li><strong>London Transport Museum</strong> ~ Another thing we have not done but is on our list! The history of transportation in London, most importantly the London Underground! <span style="color: #009030;"><a href="http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/">www.<strong>ltmuseum</strong>.co.uk</a></span></li>
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<li><strong>British Museum</strong> ~ Another great FREE museum that houses art and artifacts from all over the world like the Rosetta Stone and a petrified mummy/bog man. The building itself is a sight to see-amazing modern architecture mixed with old British style! It seems like there is always something going on at the British Museum. <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/">http://www.britishmuseum.org/</a></li>
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<li> <strong>Museum of London</strong> ~ Pete and the kids went here and enjoyed learning about the history of London. And it is free too! <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/">http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/</a></li>
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<li><strong>National Portrait Gallery</strong> ~ I love this FREE museum as well because of it's amazing collection of all the past Kings and Queens of England in their official painted portraits. It can be done quickly and you can breeze in and see Prince William and Kate's portraits as well as Diana and Prince Charles. <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/">http://www.npg.org.uk/</a></li>
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<li><strong>National Gallery</strong> ~ Right next door to the National Portrait Gallery is the National Gallery (right in the middle of Traflgar Square). This may not be a great kid museum but another great FREE museum that you could take the kids in and out quickly after doing a hot lap! <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/">http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Local Walking Tours</strong> ~ London Walks comes highly recommended and they have a walk for every interest - rock n' roll, Harry Potter, Olde Victorian and Plaque and Pox Walks. Some look so good I want to go on one! May is particularly interested in the "mudlarking" one on the Thames during low tide. It is basically beachcombing the Thames and apparently Roman pieces of pottery have been found! <a href="http://www.walks.com/">http://www.walks.com/</a>. Jack the Ripper Walks given by Tower of London Yeoman <a href="http://rippingyarnstours.com/">http://rippingyarnstours.com/</a></li>
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<li><strong>Local Biking Tours</strong> ~ My American Women's Group uses Tally Ho Cycle Tours but I have yet to go on one. They use cute old British bicycles with baskets (they had me at baskets!) <a href="http://www.tallyhocycletours.com/">www.tallyhocycletours.com</a>. Also Fat Tire Tours seems to do alright as well. <a href="http://london.fattirebiketours.com/">http://london.fattirebiketours.com/</a></li>
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And LAST BUT NOT LEAST, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROPER HIGH TEA WHILST IN LONDON!!!!<br />
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<li><strong>Mad Hatter Tea at the Sanderson Hotel</strong> ~ I stayed at this hotel with Gainer this summer and it was a hot spot! The tea looked fantastic! <a href="https://www.morganshotelgroup.com/originals/originals-sanderson-london/eat-drink/mad-hatters-tea">https://www.morganshotelgroup.com/originals/originals-sanderson-london/eat-drink/mad-hatters-tea</a></li>
<li> <strong>Stupendous Afternoon Tea at the Mercer Street Hotel in Covent Garden </strong><a href="http://www.radissonblu-edwardian.com/london-hotel-gb-wc2h-9hd/gbmountb/hotel/dining/dial">http://www.radissonblu-edwardian.com/london-hotel-gb-wc2h-9hd/gbmountb/hotel/dining/dial</a></li>
<li><strong>The Capital Hotel (near Harrods) ~</strong> May went here with my sister in law and niece this summer and they said it was great!<a href="http://www.capitalhotel.co.uk/restaurantbar_afternoontea.html">http://www.capitalhotel.co.uk/restaurantbar_afternoontea.html</a></li>
<li><strong>Fortnum and Mason</strong> ~ <a href="http://www.fortnumandmason.com/c-54-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon-afternoon-tea-london.aspx">http://www.fortnumandmason.com/c-54-diamond-jubilee-tea-salon-afternoon-tea-london.aspx</a></li>
<li><strong>The Goring</strong> ~ This is the hotel where Kate Middleton slept the night before the Royal Wedding! <a href="http://www.thegoring.com/afternoontea.aspx">http://www.thegoring.com/afternoontea.aspx</a></li>
<li><strong>The Berkley Hotel</strong> ~ Host a high couture fashion tea! <a href="http://www.the-berkeley.co.uk/fashion-afternoon-tea/">http://www.the-berkeley.co.uk/fashion-afternoon-tea/</a></li>
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We said Au Revoir to France and hit the road (back on the right side-woot!) and spent a day driving through the French country side to Switzerland! We saw castles along the motorway, fields of sunflowers and lots of wine grapes! Sigh...I never got a picture of the sunflower fields. We talked about pulling off to get one but there was always a damn French toll booth thing we had to go through...it just didn't seem worth the hassle.</div>
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Quick digression: I never had a GPS (SatNav to you UK folks) system in the US. I knew my way around Seattle so didn't really need one. Having one here in the UK it is ESSENTIAL! We bought a Garmin one for the new mini-van (oh yeah, jealous much?) and of course had to change the "talking voice" to the voice of a squirrel. Yes a squirrel. His name is Squirrely and he is hilarious. Most people would be annoyed by his voice after 10 seconds, but we just love him and he still makes us laugh even after 9 months. We love Squirrely, he gets us where we need to be and throws out random, funny one liners every once in a while. Despite all this, I have a love/hate with Squirrely. The problem is I tend to second guess him, especially if I kind of know where I am going. Sometimes he says to go a weird way, then I often override Squirrely. On our drive from France to Switzerland, when I had no idea where I was going, I had to learn to trust Squirrely. I learned this as we were skirting <em>wide</em> around Paris, we came to a toll booth (shocking, in France?) with a quick exit of right or left into a LONG tunnel. Squirrely said to go one way and I told Pete to go the other way. Bad move. We were in a LONG ASS tunnel for at least 10 minutes, not one exit, and when we came out to the light of day, we saw a familiar site...wait for it...the friggin' Arc de Triumph! Oh shit, we are in central Paris. We both immediately looked at each other and said together "OMG we are the Griswalds and will be circling the Arc for ages trying to get out of that roundabout HELL!" It was time to put our trust in Squirrely to get us the hell out of Paris! As we approached the Arc, the road dipped down and went under it and Squirrely led us out of Paris but not without a drive by the Tour Eiffel! Whew, dodged that bullet!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uh oh a wrong tour led us headed straight towards the Arc de Triumph...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Pete and I navigating through Europe!</td></tr>
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We made it safely to Switzerland, skirted around Geneva and into the beautiful Zermatt valley. Zermatt is a carless town, so we parked in Tasch (after a winding road up the valley), taxi'd into the village and got to our rental flat. We arrived on a Sunday and it was the last day of the Swiss Folklife Festival. We arrived just time for the parade! It was sweet, we saw the obligatory alp horns, some taxidermy Swiss varmits, some Swiss-style dancing, and some cool British looking Red Coat guys playing flutes? Huh?<br />
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Anyway, Rusty, oops I mean Henry, must have been inspired by the Matterhorn because he wanted to go on a hike! That never happens so we took advantage of the enthusiasm and did a quick hike up one of the trails to Zmutt. It was sunny and gorgeous, the Matterhorn was out in all it's glory, and the beer was cold at the Jaegerstube in Zmutt!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We arrived in Zermatt on a Sunday and during a Swiss Folklore Festival-it was excellent!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday, spur of the moment, afternoon hike</td></tr>
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The next morning the hiking enthusiasm had diminished just a tad but we set off on a hike up to the top of the Sunnega lift (luckily the kids didn't know about the lift UP the mountain) to Leisee Lake. After about 12 steep and long switchbacks, a lot of stopping, moaning, blistering, we made it close to the lake. We pushed on to a gorgeous lake and this was our view while we lunched...</div>
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I kept going up to some spectacular lakes and waterfalls!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Our adventure the next day was Dirt Scootering! Big, beefy kick scooters with big, beefy tires that you zoom down the mountain! We took the Schwarzee gondola up the base of the Matterhorn, Pete did a safety briefing and off we went! It was awesome-highly recommend!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gondola up for some dirt scootering!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's do this! So fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always in the lead!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gettin' agro on my dirt scooter!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We loved you Zermatt!</td></tr>
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The next day was our departure day but Pete and I got up early and did a quick hike up to the little hamlet of Furi. It was fast and furious and we were set on getting to the suspension bridge over the big, glacier carved river flowing down! The bridge was cool but creepy...being up high has gotten scarier to me as I have gotten older. Weird.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pete and I hiked up to this suspension bridge the morning we left!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">We packed up and headed towards our next stop, Grindelwald! There were several routes we could take and our Maps App told us we could put our car on a train, head through a 20 minute tunnel and it would drop us in the next valley over. It shaved about 45 minutes off our drive and plopped us in the quaint Swiss village of Kandersteg. On the other side, we saw this amazing waterfall and stopped for a picnic and a short hike to the waterfall. Gorgeous!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Took a train with our car on it through a tunnel to Kandersteg</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You just drive on and put the parking brake on!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">20 minutes from one side of the mountains to the other...so cool!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are you kidding me?? Picnic lunch in Kandersteg, Switzerland</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gondola to the top of that waterfall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kandersteg Valley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountaineers were climbing up ladders to the right of the waterfall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May decides to give it a go</td></tr>
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We arrived in Grindelwald and checked into our charming B & B, Silvi's Dreamcatcher Inn(<a href="http://www.dreamcatcherinn.ch/en/index.html">http://www.dreamcatcherinn.ch/en/index.html</a>.) Although it was about 10 minutes outside of the central village of Grindelwald, it was a perfect choice. Expansive views of the Grindelwald valley, a hot tub, and excellent, fresh breakfast was the name of the game at Silvi's Inn!<br />
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The next morning we were up early with a plan to take the train up to the Top of Europe. We got there by 8:15 to find out they were sold out for the day! Bummer, on to Plan B. We took the gondola up to Mannlichen with the new plan of hiking down to the next valley to the carless village of Wengen. As we started down the trail, that no one else was on, we quickly learned <em><strong>why</strong></em> no one else was hiking this particular trail. It was a steep series of switchbacks, through huge metal avalanche guards, down to Wengen. We probably went down at least 3000 feet and it took a L-O-N-G time. The kids were troopers and by the time we got down our legs were jelly and our stomachs empty!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gondola ride prepping for another death march-this time it was down hill!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death march down to Wengen, through the avalanche guard rails, down switchbacks...</td></tr>
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After a much needed carbo load and even with our jelly legs, we took the train to the infamous Trummelbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen. Glacier water flowing down through the mountains created a series of 10 waterfalls inside the mountain. You take a funicular up a few stories and then walk down through the waterfall-it was stunning, dark, loud, and somewhat menacing. After the falls, we were exhausted and made our way back via train to Grindelwald. Even though it was Henry's 12th birthday, we just wanted a hot tub, a beer and a shower!<br />
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The next morning we got up <em>early</em> to get the first train up the mountain to the Top of Europe. Even with our first train discount, it was ridiculously expensive. Was it worth it? I guess so. The views were incredible and the engineering of building a train track through a high altitude mountain was amazing. The Top of Europe train is celebrating its 100 year anniversary this year which is mind blowing to me-100 years ago the Swizz had the foresight, the ambition and the where with all to build a train track through a mountain all for future tourism. Well it has paid off in spades...it was crowded and expensive. Most of the crowds were bus load after bus load of Asian tourists armed with smartphones, tablets and huge Digital SLRs, wearing inappropriate clothing for glacier walking. <br />
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Unfortunately we were leaving that afternoon to start our drive home, so we didn't have as much time to hike around as we would have liked. We really loved Grindelwald and its beauty but we could have done without the hordes of tourists. We wished we had a couple more days to hike around Grindelwald and enjoy the peacefulness of Silvi's B & B.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The train goes through the mountain all the way to the top of the Jungfraujoch!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asked this guy for a pic and he said no...so I stalked him!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duuurrppp!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poor choice of footwear for a glacier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are people climbing up the mountain over Henry's right shoulder</td></tr>
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Our drive home was uneventful. We left Grindelwald and had lunch on the glacier blue Lake Thun and drove through Germany back into France. We stayed in a random little French village called Luneville and had the best meal of our trip. It really is amazing how close everything is here and we are looking forward to more road trips in Europe/UK-definitely want to hit Amsterdam, lots more Scotland, England and Wales! <br />
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I will leave you these gems:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hills are alive with the sound of ...Griswald!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am sure this happened to us at some point...</td></tr>
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Griswald German Beer Festival<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Hotel de Davis Part Deux<br />
Pete's sister, Nancy, and her kids, Kate and Grant, came for a visit about a day after my friend, Gainer, left! Quick turn around of sheets, bathroom clean up and grocery restock and we were ready! The kids were <em>finally</em> out of school, so they could do the international pick up at Heathrow.<br />
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Our plan was to hit London hard a couple of days, relax a bit with local Twyfordian activities over the week-end, and then one more day in London before we headed up to Scotland. Now I will say that Pete's sister and I are alike in the fact that we like to have a plan and we might tend to over program <em>just a bit</em>...so kindred sisters-in-law is how we roll! <br />
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Nancy scheduled a great all day private tour in London and we decided to accompany her because we knew we would learn something new about the city we call home. And were we right! I highly recommend Gary Egerton of <a href="http://www.diplomatic-guide-services.co.uk/">http://www.diplomatic-guide-services.co.uk </a><br />
(+447812073761)...he met us in an air-conditioned van, knew right where to drop us to see the Changing of the Calvary and the Guard at Buckingham Palace (without ALL the tourists), fastpass into Westminster Abbey and tons of cool, new insight for us "locals". He was great with the kids and knew just when to speed things up or go into more detail. And the best bit...he was former British "secret service" protection duty for the Royal Family and past Prime Ministers, so he had loads of insight into Princess Diana, Will, Kate, Queen, Maggie Thatcher and Harry. His claim to fame is that he pee'd in all 78 bathrooms at Buckingham Palace!<br />
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Pete joined us for the ride in and then met his buddy Tom Bice for some bromance time...Chrurchill War Rooms, the Tower of London and then a early pub dinner to meet up with all of us! It was a great, interesting, and LONG day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angelsea Arms in Kingstown</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After dinner gelato ~ photobombed by Pete</td></tr>
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Over the weekend, we chilled while Nancy and kids did a Windsor Castle tour. Windsor Castle is one of my favourite tourist sites in London BUT I have been there so many times, that I have now learned to let guests tackle that one on their own. We are a 20 minute train ride away so it works out well for all involved. On Sunday we did a nice country walk in the Hambleden Valley, popped into a pub for a drink and then finished at the Bull and Butcher in Turville for a Sunday lunch. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brotha and Sista</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brotha and Sista, the next generation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those long legs are too tall for the Chequers Pub in Fingest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awesome pub puppy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden lunch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nancy has her first Pimms and she LIKES it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Old Man</td></tr>
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The next part of our adventure was an afternoon in London, a meet up with Gary (our awesome guide) for some touring and then he was to drop us at the train station to catch the Caledonian Sleeper up to Edinburgh, Scotland. It was a longggggg day but the sleeper train worked out great! <br />
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After a lovely lunch in Covent Garden, we divided and conquered...I took the boys to the Churchill War Rooms (fantastic) and Nancy took the girls to the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery. We met Gary for some night time touring, the best fish and chips in London and then we went to the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London. Basically, the Key ceremony is the nightly locking up of the Tower of London. It has happened <em>every single night</em> for over 700 years without fail. There were some great dramatics, raising of guns, bugle music, etc with the Royal Guards and it was dark and spooky. Apparently it is a hard ticket to get with waits of up to 18 months so we were lucky we had Gary on our side to procure them! Gary then dropped us at Euston station for our 11:50 pm departure on the sleeper train to Edinburgh!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Train to London and then Scotland!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's climb the Trafalgar Square lions...first we have to get up...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dumb and Dumber helpin' one another</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost made it...May tapping her foot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ceremony of the Keys has happened every night for the last 7oo+ years. <br />
It is essentially when they lock up the Tower for the night-very cool! <br />
Tixs are hard to get-18 month wait! Starts at 9:30PM</td></tr>
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Edinburgh is a gorgeous city and we had gorgeous weather (which I hear can be iffy)! We arrived at 7:30 AM and had a while to wait until our flat was ready. We were able to drop our luggage (thank god) and headed off to explore. We had some tired campers and so we were relived when they texted at 2pm to say our flat was ready. We had hit Edinburgh Castle right when it opened as it was so crowded...in fact all of Edinburgh was crowded due to the Fringe Festival that was due to start the day we left. I felt like it was a touristy city and there were loads of tourist shops everywhere. I think I would like to explore some of the quieter parts of Scotland next. There were some great street performers so we always had something to go see when we ventured out of our apartment. That evening we went to a "close" that was really old and went on a tour of the old, poor part of Edinburgh...it was the kid's favourite by far!</div>
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The next morning, the girls hiked up to Arthur's Seat on a bright sunshiney day! Great, expansive, 360 degree views. We then picked up the lazy bum boys and hit up Holyrood Palace which is the Queen's Edinburgh lodging when in town. It was a great tour and really beautiful inside and out.</div>
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Back on the train the next day for the ride home and to regroup! Nancy took Kate and May back to London the next day so they could shop Harrods, Liberty and have HIGH tea! I opted to stay with the boys and let them regroup. Nancy and kids left the next day for Paris and to meet their hubs/Dad, Pete.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ding Dong, anyone home? Loved that the Palace had a doorbell!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My awesome and hilarious niece!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Highly recommend this new restaurant in Edinburgh - The Inn on the Mile. Great décor, lovely staff and the haggis was surprisingly good! It is a hotel too-rooms looked cool!</td></tr>
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We arrived home from Scotland for a day of recovery and to kick the Olsons out of Hotel de Davis! After we shipped them off to Paris for a couple of days, we packed up for our 10 day road trip to Normandy and Switzerland. We met the Olson family in Vicars Bocage in Normandie for a whirlwind tour of the great D-Day sites! <br />
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We took the Euro Tunnel from Folkestone, UK to Calais, FR - so easy. Under a 2 hour drive from Twyford to Folkestone, 35 minutes tunnel passage (car on a train in a tunnel) and then a 3 hour drive from Calais to the Normandy region. Along the way, we stopped in Etretat for a quick gawk, to stretch our legs and an even quicker lunch. Etretat is charming French coastal town with a big pebbly beach surrounded by dramatic cliffs. Apparently famous because Monet painted the cliffs there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first Euro Tunnel excursion! So cool-England to France in 35 minutes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry laughing/crying/in shock after the seagull stole his panini!</td></tr>
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We stayed at a great farm house ( a gite in French) in Villers Bocage called Le Ferme du Pressior. (<a href="http://bandbnormandie.com/roomsandrates.html">http://bandbnormandie.com/roomsandrates.html</a>). We rented a 3 bedroom, 3 bath, with a kitchen, gite which was great for our group of 8. Believe it or not, we actually used the kitchen!</div>
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Nancy hired another great guide for us to give a day long tour of the D-Day beaches and history. John Flahtery of Hand Maid Tours (<a href="http://www.handmaidtours.com/">www.handmaidtours.com</a>) took us to all of the major D-Day sites and to some other minor sites that not many people go to. It was a gorgeous day (hot) so the pull of the beach (to May and myself) was strong-she didn't quite get it when we had to drag her off the beach to go look at some more old war stuff. John was a great guide and historian and gave us some great insight into the D-Day activities (especially from his British perspective). In my opinion, I liked our London guide better just because he was fun, great with kids and had the good scoop on the Royal Family.<br />
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The next day, given the great weather the day before, we thought we would hit a French beach. Unfortunately it wasn't quite as warm as the day before but it certainly did not stop Grant, Henry and Uncle Pete going for a swim in the English Channel!<br />
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Before the beach excursion, we hit a quaint French bistro for lunch. It was a typical bull in a china shop experience...8 Americans, not one French speaker amongst us and some partial English from the waiter. At least they were nice...and if they weren't, we had no idea what they were saying about us! I thought for sure we would end up paying 500 Euros for our meal because we all ordered the 3 course lunch menu - there was 14.95 on the chalk board that I thought for sure was for each dish ordered...but luckily it was 14.95 for all of it! We saw they had snails and figured it was typical escargot-hot butter and garlic with a few snails thrown in...BUT what Pete, Henry and I ended up with was a platter of at least 25 snails EACH, <em>CHILLED</em>...yes <em>CHILLED. Rubbery and chewy, CHILLED, snails...</em>25 of those suckers...EACH! Henry took one bite and said NO. Pete took one bite and said NO. I tried to gut down 5-6 but my jaw hurt and stomach lurched. Henry (the only one of eight who has a year of French under his belt) finally asked the waiter to take his plate away. He couldn't even look at them anymore. I am happy to report that the rest of the meal was fantastic!<br />
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It was great visit and the last of our visitors-thanks for coming Olsons-we had a ball! Hotel de Davis was officially closed for the rest of the summer and has (at this writing) no planned visitors! After Normandy, we had a Griswald-style road trip to Switzerland all planned out - stay tuned ...next blog!goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-82641746107304597072013-08-23T02:58:00.000-07:002013-08-23T02:58:48.482-07:00Hotel de Davis ~ June and July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
First off let me say, we LOVE when people visit us! The Hotel de Davis is always open to anyone!</div>
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We were so lucky to have so many people come and visit us in June and July...it was busy! The best part is reconnecting with our old friends and remembering why we love them so much! </div>
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Roger and Leigh Taylor came for a whirlwind European tour in early July with their 3 kids Beck, Miles and Avery. We had tried to time it so they would be here on a weekend since my kids were still in school and they could do the touristy London stuff during the week. I think it worked out pretty well and we got to have lots of time together as well as for them to explore England. Henry was stoked to see his two best buds and Avery and May picked right on up! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May's house won the Swim Gala ~ Go Loddon!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May Davis ~ Loddon Vice Captain </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes I called in the big guns for the "prom"!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, she wore make up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feeling pretty thrilled with herself!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh No the triangle arm of insecurity!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May, Hermione and Lauren</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larissa, Hermione and May</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loved seeing all the different styles and personalities come out at the Prom!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May graduates!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks Polehampton!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May and her teacher, Mrs. Stockdale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May and her emotional mates~ "I wasn't there long enough to be sad." she said.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last day of school!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gainer arrived (finally) and we dragged her into London straightway for dinner with Laurie and Paul...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gain was a trooper - just landed and in London for a glass <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gain and I did a big hike in the Chilterns and had to stop at the Olde Bell in Hurley!</td></tr>
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Royal Baby birth (aka the #greatkatewait)...luckily the Lindo Wing was around<br />
the corner from Paddington!</td></tr>
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My visit with Kristin was fantastic-so fun to have a day and night out in the city! We saw the play Once and it was fantastic. She was a trooper as we finished up all the end of school year stuff! She left on a Tuesday and Pete's sister, Nancy, arrived a day later to the Hotel de Davis with her kids! Their visit is a entire separate blog post as it entails trips to London, Scotland and Normandy!goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-43003074094767706072013-08-22T08:27:00.000-07:002013-08-22T08:27:17.256-07:00June 2013: The Social Season in London, Dahhhhling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
How in the world did it get to be the end of August? Well, I think I can tell you...loads of visitors, the end of the school year business, more visitors, a Royal Baby and then a fun 10 day trip...I am way behind on this blog so you might get a slew of pictures with little commentary (which some might say isn't a bad thing)!</div>
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June is typically a very busy time for the socialites of London and especially the Queen. That gal is EVERYWHERE! She celebrates her non-birthday with the Trooping of the Colour, then the Order of the Garter and right into five days of Royal Ascot! We had so much fun at Ascot last year with the fantastic Grimstead family, that we had to make it happen again this year! This year it was sans children (Mummy did not set a good example last year to my two cuties) and an adult only event with our friends Molly and Rob and their friends Gina and Neal.</div>
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We had a fantastic day, dressed up, donned our smart looking hats, drank some Pimms, waved to HRH the Queen, and shivered in our trench coats! Unfortunately, it was cold and raining on the day we went. We toughed it out but we could only imagine how much more pleasant it would have been with the sun shining! But it certainly didn't stop the fantastic people watching you get at Royal Ascot!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the train to Royal Ascot...our helicopter must have been broken</td></tr>
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The following Saturday Pete and I headed for a day at Wimbledon with our friends Molly and Suzanne. My oh so generous neighbours, Trevor and Thea, were able to secure tickets for us through their Mum and Dad, members of the All England Club! The SUN was out and we had a great day exploring the immaculate grounds of the All England Club! We watched some up and coming junior tennis and some early rounds of Men's singles, Women's doubles and some Mixed doubles. This was a crazy year at Wimbledon ~ all sorts of upsets and surprises. It was fun just to be there and take it all in-definitely a bucket list moment for both Pete and I!</div>
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Along with the Saturday tickets, my lovely neighbour Thea, invited me to the Men's Quarter Finals on July 3rd! Along with her mother-in-law, we lunched in the Member's Only dining room and sat in the Member's seats...super close to the Royal Box. Unfortunately the Royal Box was not so Royal and I really didn't know anyone in it save for some British comedian and a few older Wimbledon tennis champions. It was a lovely day and the tennis was AMAZING! </div>
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First up was Del Potro v. Ferrer...the match was almost done before it even started as Del Potro fell on his injured knee straightaway. But he forged on and ended up beating Ferrer in a great match! Del Potro became my new fav and I was rooting for him to take the whole thing!</div>
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The second match was England's own beloved Andy Murray v. Fernando Verdasco...an epic, 5 set match! Amazing tennis and so much fun to see the hometown favourite get the crowd riled up! The match was tense, the crowd was pumped and Andy Murray was victorious! The gentleman sitting next to me was so nervous in the 5th set that he was twitching and jerking with every shot! He even grabbed my hand at one point! </div>
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A quick disclaimer: I do not love Andy Murray. In my opinion, he is kind of boring, whiny and looks like a combo of Beavis and Butthead. However, I appreciate his dedication and passion to his sport and it WAS fun to watch the hometown guy win! I will say I was very impressed with Verdasco-he was cool as a cucumber throughout the match and not bothered at all by all the Murray support. After all the upsets, I was hoping he would win...kind of...</div>
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A big thank you to Trevor and Thea for making this all happen-I will remember it forever!</div>
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Del Potro v. Ferrer & Murry v. Verdasco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Del Potro v. Ferrer...an amazing match! Del Potro my NEW fave! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Royal Box-I was so close but alas, it was full of C-Listers that day...<br />
if only Kate and Pippa had been there. <br />
Days later I missed Bradley Cooper, Gerad Butler and Jude Law!</td></tr>
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Whilst we were socializing with the uppity ups, we had visitors coming and going throughout the 2-3 weeks of Royal Ascot, Wimbledon and the Henley Royal Regatta. Oh and the kids were still in school (Henry even went to France with his school for the weekend), so it was a lot of juggling of schedules, airport pick ups/drop offs, changing sheets and cooking!<br />
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Our great friends, Paula and Grover Holtzclaw, came for a visit the week of Wimbledon and the Regatta. They stayed in a flat in London with their daughters and Paula's mom and friend Nancy. They were able to come out for a day/night to spend some time with us, watch May compete in her Sport's Day, go on a hike in the Chiltrens and see our house! The day after Wimbledon, our friend's the Taylors arrived (all 5 of them!) for a 6 day stay at Hotel de Davis. Whilst they toured London and Windsor Castle, the Holtzclaws came back out for a day of rowing competition at the Henley Royal Regatta. The sun was out again (we have had a great summer compared to last summer) and it was hot in Henley on Thames. We enjoyed the great preppy people watching, some cold Coronas and cute crew teams!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paula and I at the Henley Royal Regatta and YES I am wearing the same dress I wore to Wimbledon (3 days later)!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Regatta finish line</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stealthy photo-just to get the chap behind us in his all pink get-up-very smart!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cruising the Royal Enclosure</td></tr>
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Back in June I was invited to attend the Order of the Garter at Windsor Castle by my new American friend Christine. It was a day of lots of queuing, champagne, tail gate picnic and Royal watching! </div>
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The Order of the Garter is the most senior and the oldest British Order of Chivalry and was founded by Edward III in 1348. <br />
The Order, consisting of the King and twenty-five knights, honours those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally. <br />
The patron saint of the Order is St George (patron saint of soldiers and also of England) and the spiritual home of the Order is St George's Chapel, Windsor. <br />
Every knight is required to display a banner of his arms in the Chapel, together with a helmet, crest and sword and an enamelled stallplate. <br />
These 'achievements' are taken down on the knight's death and the insignia are returned to the Sovereign. The stallplates remain as a memorial and these now form one of the finest collections of heraldry in the world.<br />
The insignia of the Order have developed over the centuries, starting with a garter and badge depicting St George and the Dragon. A collar was added in the sixteenth century, and the star and broad riband in the seventeenth century. <br />
Although the collar could not be decorated with precious stones (the statutes forbid it), the other insignia could be decorated according to taste and affordability. George IV, well-known for his vanity, left 55 different Garter badges of varying styles.<br /><br />
Over the years, a number of knights have been 'degraded' (for the crimes of heresy, treason or cowardice) or even executed - such as Lord Scrope of Masham (a childhood friend of Henry V), and the 3rd Duke of Buckingham in 1521. Charles I wore his Order (ornamented with over 400 diamonds) to his execution in 1649.<br />
From the eighteenth century to 1946, appointments to the Order (and to the Order of the Thistle) were made on advice from government. <br />
Today, the Order has returned to its original function as a mark of Royal favour; Knights of the Garter are chosen personally by the Sovereign to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally. <br />
The number of knights is limited to 24, plus Royal knights. For much of its history, the Garter was limited to the aristocracy, but today the knights are from varied backgrounds. If there are vacancies in the Order, appointments are announced on St George's Day (23 April).<br />
Every June, the Knights of the Garter gather at Windsor Castle, where new knights take the oath and are invested with the insignia. A lunch is given in the Waterloo Chamber, after which the knights process to a service in St George's Chapel, wearing their blue velvet robes (with the badge of the Order - St George's Cross within the Garter surrounded by radiating silver beams - on the left shoulder) and black velvet hats with white plumes. <br /><br />
The Queen (whose father George VI appointed her and her husband to the Order in 1947) attends the service as Sovereign of the Order. Other members of the Royal Family in the Order also attend, including The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Princess Royal. <br /><br />During the Middle Ages ladies were associated with the Order, although unlike today they did not enjoy full membership. One of the last medieval ladies to be honoured was Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII. <br /><br />After her death in 1509 the Order remained exclusively male, except for reigning queens as Sovereign of the Order, until 1901 when Edward VII made Queen Alexandra a lady of the Order.<br /><br />In 1987, The Queen decided that women should be eligible for the Garter in the same way as men. Women are therefore included in this number and currently Lady Soames (the youngest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, also a holder of the Order of the Garter) holds this honour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prince Chuckie, Queenie and Wills - she is so tiny!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Well the King and Queen of Idaho came for a visit a couple of weeks ago. It was great fun to see them but after several days of delayed flights, their time spent in the UK was too short! We had planned a long weekend away up to the Yorkshire Dales and the cute city of York. Due to their delayed arrival, our 4 day trip turned into a 2 day trip. We rented a mini-van and off we went Griswald Family Truckster-style to the Yorkshire Dales. We stayed in a lovely country house hotel called the Devonshire Arms near Bolton Abbey. It was lush, green and really gorgeous countryside! We had a great time hiking the trails along the river, Pete got to do some fly fishing and spent some quality time together in the car!<br />
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We arrived back to our neck of the woods and Gigi and Papa spent a night in London. They had booked tickets to the Book of Mormon and they were not disappointed! I met them the next day in London to go to the Saatchi Gallery and have lunch in Chelsea. The next day they were off to France for a week...way too short of a visit!<br />
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The week prior to their arrival, Henry had his appendix out! Another 2 nights spent in the Royal Berkshire Hospital! We are getting our NHS fix in whilst in the UK! He has made a full recovery! Never a dull moment!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 hours in the British "mini-van" = happy days!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still kissin' as they go through the kissin' gate</td></tr>
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A few weekends ago we had our first in a series of "bank" holidays that occur through the UK business/school calendar. At the last minute, we decided to go camping with our British friends, Suzanne and Phil. Luckily, we brought our camping gear with us and also had the expertise of LOCALS to guide us to the perfect spot! We chose to go to the New Forest in Hampshire, which is only about an hour away and seemed to have numerous camping pitches for us to choose. Going camping in May was risky, but the weather forecast looked promising. Camping in the UK is similar to camping in the US -- let me break it down for you:<br />
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<u>SIMILARITIES</u><br />
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<li>The prep time to get organized, packed up, shopping for food items is the same. It takes a lot of TIME and EFFORT to get "ready" for camping</li>
<li>Your car will be JAM PACKED with all that crap but the difference is that your UK car is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than your US car and you have the same amount of stuff!</li>
<li>You and your spouse will disagree on how and where to set up the tent, no matter what country you are in</li>
<li>You will get just as dirty in the UK as in the US whilst camping</li>
<li>Washing up the dishes is still a pain in the ass</li>
<li>Your inflatable mattress will lose air slowly through the night</li>
<li>The kids will sleep like logs because they have had so much fun but adults will sleep like crap because they have had too much wine</li>
<li>Packing up and re-stuffing the tent, sleeping bags and inflatable mattresses takes more time than unpacking</li>
<li>Walking to the loos in the middle of the night is still scary, cold and not much fun</li>
<li>Kids love camping, love fresh air, climbing trees, having the independence to roam the campground on their bikes and meet new friends</li>
<li>You still have to do loads of laundry when you get home</li>
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DIFFERENCES<br />
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<li>There are no specific numbered campsites - you just arrive, pick a spot and pitch your tent. Rule was you had to be at least 3 meters away from the next tent...luckily we didn't have anyone that close to us</li>
<li>The loos and shower facilities are really nice-cleaned often, free showers, no vault toilets...</li>
<li>Instead of worrying about bears in your camp, one must worry about wild ponies and cows in the New Forest</li>
<li>Your car will be JAM PACKED with all that crap but the difference is that your UK car is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than your US car and you have the same amount of stuff!</li>
<li>Every campsite had a cricket pitch set up and cricket was played frequently</li>
<li>Playing football was popular too</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Please do climb on this chair"...well what's the point of having it then?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kind of camping...let's drive to the pub for dinner!</td></tr>
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Yes we got guinea pigs. Suckers. Kids promised me they will be responsible for them...</div>
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We decided to join a boating club on the Thames River this summer. It is super casual, has some BBQs, and different kind of human powered boats to use (canoes, kayaks, row boats, etc). We figured it would be nice to have access to the river and we can ride our bikes there. One of the requirements of the club was that the kids had to do a swim test...across the River Thames...in their clothes...with shoes on...in May (after a cold winter and a late spring). I was dreading it for them! If they could make the swim then they would not have to wear a life jacket while in a boat. We decided that no matter what they would have to wear a life jacket (just for safety sake-the Thames can be fast moving), so there was no reason for them to really do the swim right? We thought it would be character and confidence building, right? </div>
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Oh how these parenting moments can back fire. The kids were excited to do it and were all pent up with nervous anticipation. Let's just say one made it and one did...you are smart. You can figure it out. <br />
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In other big club joining news, Pete is excited to report that he has joined the Twyford Men's Club! Once the church in town, it was donated to the men of Twyford after the Great War as a place to convalesce, relax and be amongst men! Not much has been done to the building in all these years but now it is snooker hall. As a member, Pete has his own key and can play snooker whenever he wants! Hooray! Rules are no women, no alcohol, no gambling, no food and no smoking...so they play some snooker and then hit the pub afterwards to get to their vices! Whatever makes him happy!<br />
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Heading into the run-up of the last half term of school, loads of visitors in June and July, not to mention the social season of the Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta and Wimbledon. Who I am kidding...I don't know enough people to have a social season but we are attending the events in hope of finding the social season. This year we are hitting Royal Ascot sans kids, doing the Regatta with our great friends the Holtzclaws and going to Wimbledon. My sweet neighbour got us tickets to Wimbledon and I have to say I am sooooo excited. Thea and I are going to the men's semi finals on July 3 - should be a great day and our tickets are next to the Royal Box (although I suspect Kate will not be there as she will be having that Royal heir any time in July-damnit!). Pete and I are going on the 1st Saturday to watch the outside courts, have some strawberries and cream and enjoy the Wimbledon atmosphere! So excited!<br />
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We were lucky and humbled to have our first "family" of visitors come over our Easter Break. My good friend Jill and her family of five came for a jam-packed tour of London, followed by an amazing 5 days in Paris. Jill and I met in college, roomed in Theta together and then both somehow ended up in Seattle for a couple of years together. We both were newly engaged/dating our now husbands so we had some FUN coupley time in Seattle in our mid 20's...fast forward years and years later to a total of 5 kids aged 9-14 between us and still fun coupley time together. Jill and I have spent every summer together at her family's cabin in Lake Tahoe (along with our other dear friend and my last visitor, Cathie), so it was fun to see each other again but this time in the UK and Paris! Our kids have literally grown up with one another and May considers Corinna and Julia like her sisters. The kids call us Auntie Jill and Auntie Jen and I have heard Henry describe Logan, Corinna and Julia as his cousins. So sweet and so special-they all just picked up right where they left off two summers ago.</div>
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They spent the first 2 nights in London whilst my kids finished up school. We spent a day in London all together touring the Tate Modern, the Borough Market and Piccadilly Square. The beauty of having this age of kids is that everyone can walk and not get tired, they are excited just to be together and hang, and therefore allowed lots of fun adult time with minimal interruptions. Unlike the early years in Tahoe, when kids were bribed to stay inside the cabin and watch the movie at night or face an early bedtime. Now our reality is prying them out of their bedrooms (with doors shut of course) and off their devices!</div>
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We went on a lovely hike in the Hambleden Valley to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang windmill, and followed that up with a yummy pub lunch in Henley. The adults even got several nights out at our local pubs and one really great dinner at the Quince Tree in Henley. We even spotted Tom Jones at the Quince Tree that night-fresh from the Voice UK premiere. Jill and Jeff were not as impressed but Pete and I sure were-we watch the Voice UK so we feel like really knew Tom Jones. Our kids were stoked we saw him too.</div>
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We spent Easter Day at Stonehenge and then toured the charming city of Bath. The next day I took them to Windsor Castle and enjoyed watching the Changing of the Guard again...can't get enough of them!</div>
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The next day the Basch fam was off to Paris for a few days AWAY from the Davis fam! We Eurotrained down a couple of days later and spent two days walking Paris, eating macaroons, pain au chocolates, enjoying the café culture that Paris is SO good at and eating well! The kids were troopers, up late and ready to rock and roll everyday! We saw St Germain, the Orangerie museum, the Tour Eiffel, the Latin Quarter, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, the Arc de Triumph, Martmontre, Rue de Cler, Champs Elysees, and the Plantee Promenade. I will admit that the Davis fam did NOT go to the Louvre...we just didn't have enough time and hopefully we will be back to Paris before we move from the UK.</div>
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After the Basch fam left to fly back to Cali, the Davis fam headed to Bruges via rail. 3 hours later we arrived in Bruges and stayed in a darling hotel called the Prinsenhof. It was excellent! Bruges is charming, clean and quiet. I understand it can be quite touristy but I think we were there a tad early. The thing about Bruges is that it was SUNNY and semi-warm. We were like bears coming out from our hibernation caves...it was glorious. We spent two days in Bruges and then trained to Brussels for a night and a day before we headed home to the UK (via Eurostar). Brussels was rainy and a pretty city but not nearly the charm that Bruges claims.</div>
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All in all it was a great trip. If you asked the Basch fam they would agree, but might have wished it was a little warmer. It was really freezing in London and Paris (complete with the occasional snow flurry!) - the usual spring flowers were non-existent which was a shame. But we did have a blast! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bringin' up the rear...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another keeper of the Basch fam!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hair still red...sigh</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last day in Paris with the Basch fam @ Café de Flore</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruges Markt...the sun was shining! Finally!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can tell you this is the Grand Palais in Brussels-the only rain of the entire trip!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had to stop at Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross Station in London before we headed home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ty Burrell (AKA Phil Dunphy from "Modern Family") at the Tate Modern in London</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheese tasting with the BIG CHEESE of Pt. Reyes Original Blue has its benefits!<br />
Neal's Yard Dairy in Borough Market - YUM!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The BIG Cheese in front of Fortnum and Mason window display of a cheese wig! Apropos!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eurostar to Paris after a smelly, armpit in your face, train ride to St. Pancras Station-happy to be sitting down!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grown up dinner at the Quince Tree outside of Henley on Thames- <br />
TOM JONES (aka "Where I come from I am the VOICE) was dining there that night as well!</td></tr>
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the UK and Europe with one another! Thanks for coming across the pond Jill, Jeff,<br />
Logan, Corinna and Julia!</td></tr>
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<br />goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-55521003290923681992013-03-25T02:41:00.005-07:002013-03-25T02:41:39.364-07:00A Year Already? Bob's Your Uncle!We arrived at Heathrow on Saturday, March 24 - exactly one year ago! We arrived exhausted but excited to begin this new adventure and happy to see Pete after a 6 week break! It is cliché to say that it is hard to believe a year has passed but it really is hard to believe! Even the kids think this year has gone fast! And it certainly has not been dull! We have lived life to the fullest, explored this wonderful country and continued to expand our kid's quest for adventure!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading to London!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made it-I slept for a week after arrival!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tired but happy to see Dad!</td></tr>
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<strong>Country count is as follows</strong>:<br />
France (Jen to Paris 2x, family to St. Jean de Luz and Biarritz)<br />
Spain<br />
Italy (Rome)<br />
Ireland (Pete many times to Dublin, family road trip in Feb)<br />
Kenya<br />
Dubai (Pete)<br />
USA (Pete)<br />
Holland (Pete)<br />
Turkey (Pete)<br />
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<strong>Stuff we have done in England:</strong><br />
Isle of Wight<br />
Cotswalds (2x)<br />
Stamford, Lincolnshire<br />
Royal Ascot<br />
Queen's Jubilee<br />
Henley Royal Regatta<br />
London Olympics (gymnastics, cycling, swimming, triathlon, beach volleyball, track and field, torch relay)<br />
Stonehenge<br />
Blenheim Palace<br />
Windosr Castle x6<br />
Wincester Christmas Markets<br />
Book of Mormon<br />
Lion King<br />
Wicked<br />
21 Mile walk in Stroud<br />
ATP World Tennis match<br />
Bath<br />
Hayling Island (residence camp for Henry)<br />
Hampton Court Palace<br />
Madonna concert (Jen)<br />
Biffy Clyro concert (Pete)<br />
Henry graduating from Year 6 to secondary school<br />
lots of things in London<br />
continued with gymnastics (May)<br />
learned how to pay cricket (Henry)<br />
discovered cross country running (May)<br />
experienced the British health care system (NHS) with a stay in the hospital (Henry)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First outing to London...Regents Park in the spring (my hair has not looked liked that since)!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First day at Polehampton Junior School</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well done Queen, well done...trying to catch a glimpse of the <br />
Queen's barge on the Thames during the flotilla</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First day of school in September</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole family in the Masai Mara (red hair)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fancy dress for the Royal Ascot with the Grimsteads!</td></tr>
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<strong>Celebrity sightings:</strong><br />
Met the Fonz<br />
Orlando Bloom<br />
Bill Nighy<br />
Hugh Grant<br />
Prince Charles and Camilla<br />
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<strong>Visitors to date:</strong><br />
21<br />
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<strong>Colours my hair has been: </strong><br />
4<br />
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In order to get a feel for where we are at a year into this adventure, I decided to interview the kids for their POV on this big Davis family adventure!<br />
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<strong><em>Questions:</em></strong><br />
<strong>Has the year gone by fast or slow? Why?</strong><br />
HENRY: It has been so fast because it has been so fun, we did a lot of things and experienced everything!<br />
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MAY: Too slow. I miss my friends but I also like my friends here.<br />
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<strong>What has been your favourite thing we have done?</strong><br />
HENRY: I really like going into London because we do new things every time we go. I loved the Olympics, especially the swimming because it was cool to watch and we saw Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. I like Africa because of all the cool animals and I loved swimming in the river and playing in the mud!<br />
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MAY: I loved going to Kenya. I really liked seeing GG, Papa, Uncle Will and Rye and seeing all the animals. I like going to all these new countries that I have never been too.<br />
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<strong>What is the worst thing we have done?</strong><br />
HENRY: All the hiking my Mom makes us do. (I knew he would say that!)<br />
MAY: I don't always like going to London because it is so busy and the streets are crowded. I like going to see the sights and the stores but sometimes it is too crowded.<br />
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<strong>What has been your favourite thing about England?</strong><br />
HENRY: Meeting my new friends and that stuff here is like a million years older like all the castles and houses.<br />
MAY: I like living in Twyford. You can easily walk to town with your friends and buy candy at the shops.<br />
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<strong>What do you miss the most from home?</strong><br />
HENRY: Mexican food/chimichangas from Costco, my friends/family, American football, baseball and basketball, chimichangas...did I say chimichangas ? Oh and Smarties and Hershey's chocolate. And root beer!<br />
MAY: My dog, Stella, our big house, my friends and my rope swing in the playroom. I miss the space-these houses are tiny. I miss chimichangas, goldfish and root beer.<br />
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<strong>What do you like better in England than in the US?</strong><br />
HENRY: There is more stuff to do here and I like taking the train/Tube places. And I like the fish and chips, bangers and mash and ginger beer!<br />
MAY: I like the Cloudy Lemonade a lot! I like going to the pubs and hanging out and seeing all the castles they have here. I like it that so many friends come to visit us! The tea and chocolate are better here too.<br />
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<strong>If you could live anywhere that we have visited where would it be and why?</strong><br />
HENRY: I would like to live in Africa but only at the camps we visited (LOL-spoiled!) And maybe the Cotswalds because of all the countryside and we could own sheep.<br />
MAY: I think maybe in Kenya. I would like to live where Boni (our guide at Lemarti's Camp) lives and meet all sorts of new people and show them Africa. And the weather is warm most of the year!<br />
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<strong>Is school harder or easier here than in the US? How?</strong><br />
HENRY: It is harder. You get a load more homework, you have 16 classes and you get detentions for everything. But I have not gotten a detention.<br />
MAY: It is easier I think but has a lot more tests. Math was harder in the US than it is now. You have to wear uniforms, the teachers have British accents and they tell people off all the time!<br />
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<strong>What do you like better about school in the UK?</strong><br />
HENRY: We get to cook food in Food Tech, make stuff in Product Design and you get more school holidays.<br />
MAY: I like PE better in the UK because we do more fun things. We run a lot which I like!<br />
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<strong>Where do you still want to travel to?</strong><br />
HENRY: Belgium so I can eat chocolate, Switzerland to snowboard, Normandy for my school trip, basically anywhere in Europe.<br />
MAY: I want to go back to Kenya. I also want to go to Switzerland, Fiji, Barcelona, Dubai and Austria. I want to try skiing in Switzerland too!<br />
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<strong>What's on tap for the next year:</strong><br />
a visit from the Basch family including a quick trip to Paris<br />
Bruges and Brussels<br />
May's residential trip to Hayling Island<br />
GG and Papa visit with a weekend trip to the Yorkshire Dales and York<br />
Henry's school trip to Normandy<br />
Royal Ascot<br />
Henley Royal Regatta<br />
Wimbledon<br />
a visit from Paula and Grover and family<br />
a visit from Roger and Leigh and family<br />
a visit from Kristin and her daughter Kate<br />
a visit from Stacey and her daughter Maddie<br />
a visit from Andrew and Jessica and family<br />
A visit from Dina for Royal Ascot and Wimbledon<br />
Wimbledon with my favourite neighbour to the Men's semi-finals<br />
May's graduation from Year 6 to secondary school<br />
a visit from Pete's sister and her kids with a weekend trip to Edinburgh<br />
Road trip to Normandy to see DDay sites with Pete's sister and her family<br />
Road trip and hiking trip to Switzerland<br />
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...and that's only through August...<br />
<br />goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-87457412639211510792013-03-06T07:02:00.002-08:002013-03-06T07:02:37.638-08:00Learning to Re-Drive in EnglandEveryone knows that driving in England is an entirely different experience than what we Americans are use to, right? They drive on the different side of the road then we do, their steering wheels are on the different side of the car, and their cars are itty bitty to go with their itty bitty, narrow roads. My giant Ford Expedition (seating 8 adults comfortably) would not fly here. As it was, our 520 BMW felt too big to drive here without always feeling like I was scraping things on the left hand side. Although I miss the bells and whistles of the BMW (and the automatic engine), I feel better driving in our VW Tiguan now-higher up and not as wide.<br />
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Now notice I didn't say the "wrong" side of the road or the "wrong side of the car" where the steering wheel is...it isn't wrong, it's just different to us. Luckily, we have had a year to get our British driving license and are able to drive on our US license until the year anniversary date comes around. I can't imagine moving here and having to immediately take the driving test whilst getting everyone settled, in school and the house unpacked. That would have been majorly stressful.<br />
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So we are approaching our first year anniversary in Feb/March so we knew we had get on the details of getting our UK licenses. Of course, none of this is easy or seamless. It's bureaucracy at it's worst! First, we have to get a provisional license which means we have to send in our passports and the needed paperwork. Finding the time when we would not<em> need</em> our passports for at least a month proved to be difficult, not to mention how unsettling it is to send our passports off to a government agency! Luckily we had a tight window in November, after our trip to Rome but before Africa, to send it all in!<br />
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Once we had the actual provisional license, we could book an appointment to take the first of two tests, the Theory test (essentially the written test in US terms). Now I don't know if it has been sooo long since I got my US license at 16, but I do not remember the US written test being so detailed. The UK requires people to of course know the rules of the road and the road signs, but also vehicle maintenance, first aid, rules for horses, motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles and towing a trailer. When in the hell am I going to be riding a motorcycle, towing a trailer or a horse in England?? We downloaded a copy of the Theory test software as well as The Highway Code handbook and began studying (revising they say here). As well as the 50 multiple choice questions, you have to watch 14 video clips simulating real life driving situations and click on all of the hazards that could/would develop in the video clip-essentially like a video game shooting the bad guys.<br />
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I took at least 10 mock tests and passed 8 out of 10. Pete had taken his test already and had just passed so I was feeling confident about taking the test. Some of the multiple choice questions were so unbelievably silly that I thought there is no way any idiot could not pass this test. Questions like: "You come upon an accident scene. What two things should you not do:<br />
a.) keep the injured person calm<br />
b.) offer them a cigarette to calm their nerves<br />
c.) call for emergency help<br />
d.) offer them a drink<br />
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Seriously? Who is not going to get that question right? I realize I need to pretend I am an 18 year old British kid when taking this test but surely even an 18 year old can answer that question right. So off I went to take my Theory test 4 weeks ago. And that's when it went horribly wrong. Who's the idiot now?<br />
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As soon as I began, I knew I was screwed. I had at least 10 questions (passing was 43/50) I was unsure of-all having to do with vehicle maintenance, towing a trailer and documentation needed for said trailers. I answered the ones I knew and then went back to the questionable ones and tried to logically take out the wrong answers thus leaving me with 1 or 2 good guesses (back to the SAT days!) I got 9 questions incorrect and thus failed my Theory test. I was livid! After making fun of the stupid questions on Facebook and making everyone laugh? Dum dum Jen! That's what happens when you get American cocky!<br />
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So I had to book another appointment, pay another £31 to re-take the test and begin revising again on the Theory software. This time I gave particular attention to vehicle maintenance/safety and trailer rules. I took a million mock tests and passed them all. By this time I was a walking encyclopedia of The Highway Code.<br />
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So back I went, my tail between my legs, with a new found respect for the Theory test (not really). This time I passed with flying colors (48/50 yo!) and I am now able to book my new nemesis ---bom, bom, bom...the Practical Driving Test!<br />
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But first both Pete and I needed to brush up on our British driving skills and find out what is expected of us as British drivers. Now we both have been driving here for almost 11 months, not to mention the 28+ years of driving experience we each have under our belts, so we feel pretty good going into the lessons. We both realize we probably have been doing some things wrong whilst driving here and we just need some "fine tuning", right?? Well, not so fast bucko! <br />
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Turns out we need to completely re-learn how to drive a car here, with particular attention payed to the EMERGENCY BRAKE. The E-brake is used in almost every manoeuvre here in the UK. Pete was the first to have his lesson and he came home in a panic! "We are doing it all wrong, we need to practice, we need to know how to reverse into a teeny tiny parking spot, we are signalling incorrectly, we need to use our mirrors, we need our e-brake in all moves...we need to know how to do a 3-point turn!" Well, I know how to do a 3-point turn, easy peasy! Well guess what, I do not know how to do a 3-point turn British-style! <br />
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3-Point Turn British Style (Hey Sexy Lady-sorry couldn't resist!)<br />
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1. E-brake engaged, shift to 1st gear, check all mirrors, turn and check both blind spots, release e-brake and s-l-o-w-l-y make your first turn<br />
2. stop, engage e-brake up, shift into reverse, check all mirrors, turn and check both blind spots, release e-brake and s-l-o-w-l-y reverse into your second turn<br />
3. stop, engage e-brake up, shift into 1st gear, check all mirrors, turn and check both blind spots, release e-brake and s-l-o-w-l-y move into your 3rd turn, pull up on the side of the road, stop, engage e-brake and shift into neutral, take foot off the brake<br />
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Wow. That is a lot just to turn around in the middle of the road. <br />
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Not to mention the use of the e-brake at any stop light or stop when you are stopped for more than 3 seconds. E-brake on, in neutral, foot off the brake so as not to "dazzle" the other drivers behind you with your brake lights. Really? To me it just seems to be a lot of "messing around" and "looking down" when you should be looking up, ready to drive and get going.<br />
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Now, I really am not making fun of British driving rules. They aren't wrong, they are just different. My first lesson went pretty well but I did practice my 3 point turn about 10 times and still didn't get it right. I thought I knew how to parallel park too but, guess what? I don't. You can only use the mirrors and you need to keep both hands on the wheel-no slinging your one hand over the passenger seat and turning to look where you are going. Nope, it's all about the mirrors.<br />
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Believe it or not, some people have said I am ornery. Really? Me? I have had several bosses call me ornery. I don't know why. But suffice it to say that Steve, my driving instructor, probably thinks I am a tad ornery. The entire length of my 2 hour lesson I am asking why we use the e-brake so much, when would I need to turn around in the middle of the road, etc...I am sure he hates me.<br />
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*So wish us luck on the next bit of our UK driving experience as we both try and pass the Practical test with flying colours! I'll keep you posted!<br />
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*<strong>Update</strong>: I wrote this blog awhile ago after my first driving lesson. I was afraid of posting the blog because I did not want to jinx us! Flash forward a couple of weeks and I am happy to report that Pete and I have both past the driving test! It was not without drama, a failed first go (won't name names) and at least $900 was spent getting us to the testing centre 40 minutes away because the one closest to us was booked out 10 weeks in advance and we had about 4 weeks to get this all done!<br />
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So it is over with now. Back to driving the "right" way :-)goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-52468030262019906572013-03-01T10:32:00.001-08:002013-03-01T10:32:39.537-08:00From the Emerald City to the Emerald Isle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The kids had Half Term break last week so we decided to hit up the Emerald Isle for a Griswald family road trip. We hitched up the Family Truckster and did a fast and furious road trip through the gorgeous south end of Ireland. Originally we were going to try to find some warmer temps or go skiing, but we wanted a closer destination so Ireland was the easy choice.</div>
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We flew into Shannon (60 minute flight!), picked up the Truckster and headed to the Cliffs of Moher straightaway! The sun was out and it was a balmy 50+ degrees...perfect weather for the Cliffs of Moher viewing. Many people told us if the weather is cloudy/foggy that the cliffs just aren't worth going to, so we really lucked out. There were hardly any people and it felt like we had the place to ourselves. Apparently the day we were there they discovered that the side of the cliffs had been graffiti'd with some colourful art-of course we could not see it but we read about it the next morning in the papers.The green colours were fantastic and the cliffs very dramatic. I was pleasantly surprised by the Cliffs of Moher-they were breath taking and I was glad my expectations were met.</div>
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After visiting the Cliffs, we jumped in the Truckster and headed to our first hotel. The Adare Manor in Adare, Ireland was ranked as one of the best Irish castles in all of Ireland. They were having an amazing Half Term break deal for a family room, kids are free, full Irish breakfast and dinner included so we jumped on living large for one night. As we entered the manor grounds, it was truly a "wait for it" moment. We turned the corner of the long drive and BAM!...the stately Manor awaits. We did find out a very important fact: manors are for the rich and castles were for defense...big difference! After checking in, we were given a tour of the manor which eventually led to our room. Our room was HUGE! May could do cartwheels galore in it! The kids quickly changed into their swimming costumes (lol! British for bathing suits) and went to terrorize the pool. We had a lovely dinner in the golf clubhouse's restaurant and followed up by drinks in the Manor bar where we were regaled with ghost stories of the Manor.<br />
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The next morning the kids and I walked explored the ground of the Manor and the charming village of Adare whilst Pete fly fished the Maigue River. As Pete says, "They don't call it catching for a reason." But he loved fishing with a ghillie (guide) who knew all about fly fishing in Ireland. Very cool! The kids and I picked up picnic supplies, had one more swim and then we headed out to "do the Dingle"!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adare Manor-in Adare, Ireland was gorgeous!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lobby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to hit the pool!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our huge room!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalty for one night only!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full Irish Breakfast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cool ruins on the property...although kids have the sad look on their faces<br />
because we had just seen a cat get hit by a car in town. Traumatizing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "wait for it" moment...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pete and his ghillie Jim</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a bad view from this hole!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found out a manor is for the rich and a castle is for defense</td></tr>
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We cruised on to the Dingle Peninsula and stopped at several beaches to search for rocks and shells. It was wee bit windy and we ended up eating our picnic in the Truckster. But then we found a wide open beach and spent about an hour tide-pooling and enjoying the protected and unwindy beach. It was heaven!<br />
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After our beach combing bliss, we headed to Dingle over Connor's Pass, as recommended by the young American girl I sat next to on the plane. Ironically, she was moving to Ireland that day from Portland and had worked at Kells! Connor's Pass was desolate, narrow and a winding road. We stopped half way up and hiked up to a mountain lake. We were the only ones there and had some great fun shouting weird things to echo back to us!<br />
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At the top of the pass, you can see both sides of the Dingle Peninsula. It was windy and cold up at the top. It was a quick jump out and jump back in picture!</div>
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We checked into our cute B & B, the Castlewood Inn, relaxed a little and headed off to dinner in the cute fishing village of Dingle. We were going to try and hit a pub after dinner to listen to some Irish music but we were all so exhausted, we just couldn't do it! </div>
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After an amazing breakfast cooked by the owners (to die for bread pudding!), we did a quick drive up the south side of the Dingle Peninsula to Slea's Head and then back to Dingle to pick up our suitcases. We had a long drive around the Ring of Kerry to get done that day so we had to get on the road! The kids slept most of the first part of the ring drive (which wasn't as stunning as the end bit of the ring drive) so Pete and I just chatted and listened to some Irish tunes (Pete bought a CD of Irish Pub Songs).</div>
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Some back history for you: after I lived in Florence, Italy during my junior year of college, I travelled to Greece with some friends and then met my room mates from Italy in Ireland. This was years before the Internet and cell phones so there was no email/texting check in to make sure we all were still meeting or had been delayed. We had picked a date to meet in the train station in Cork and we all meet there on the assigned date. Some how we had it in our brains that it would be fun to rent 3 speed bikes and cycle around the Ring of Kerry. We stored our backpacks at the train station (can't do that anymore can you?), rented our bikes and headed out on a 3 day biking tour of the Ring of Kerry...on a 3 speed bike, without helmets.</div>
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Why am I telling you this? Well after driving the Ring of Kerry last week, I can not believe how in the HELL we did that bike ride? It was so hilly, narrow and 112 miles around. So we averaged 40 miles a day with no prior bike riding training? Ah to be 20 again! I am trying to track down these old room mates in the hope they can fill in the parts of the trip I can't remember...I do remember staying in some really dodgy B & Bs...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May loves a good beach! She brought home 5 lbs of rocks and shells.</td></tr>
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We stayed in the charming village of Kenmare at the Coachman Inn. Definitely our worst hotel of the trip and I should have known better than to wait until the day before to find a place to stay. But the town itself made up for it-it was super cute and we had an excellent dinner at Packie's Bistro. Kenmare is know for some of it's excellent restaurants. Many were closed due to the season but in the spring and summer I think it is a very busy village!<br />
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The next morning, we were up and out to try and hit the vibrant fishing village of Kinsale. The road was winding and narrow and we got stuck behind a truck so our drive was longer than expected. We had an amazing lunch at Fishy Fishy and strolled the streets of this cute village. We were going to try and stop at the Blarney Stone on the way up to Dublin but we were behind schedule and just headed straight up to Dublin (3 hr drive on a Friday and ran into traffic :-( )<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This boy never ate a plate of mussels he didn't like!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still going and just hitting his stride...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trinity Library on the Trinity College campus-wish I could<br />
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At this point in our trip, we were happy to give up the car and settle in some place for a couple of days. Pete gets an amazing deal at the Dublin Four Seasons through work so we had a sweet set up. Kids loved this hotel-they had kid sized robes for them, a bowl of popcorn and sodas waiting for them in their room. We were spoiled rotten by the service there! And they had a great pool! Win!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another library-the National Library of Ireland</td></tr>
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On Saturday, it was lightly snowing so we headed out early to do the Dublin Bus Tour. We hit Trinity College and Library, the National Library, Dublin Castle, some big Cathedrals, the Guinness Storehouse, Phoenix Park (where the US Embassy and the president of Ireland both reside). The Irish President's residence was designed to look like the original White House. Also, we were told the next Ambassador for Ireland might be Bill Clinton? Wha?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wish I could say the kids were pouring over an Irish literary classic but no. <br />
They were looking at a 2006 Guinness Book of World Records.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A monument for Dr. Barnardo-a famous Brit who helped many orphans in England and Ireland.<br />
May did a report on him earlier this year so she was excited to see this sculpture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now we are talking-the Guinness Storefront tour!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horse with a hat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic Guinness adverts!</td></tr>
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Let's talk about Guinness, shall we? Believe it or not, I had never had a pint of Guinness. I was scared it would be too thick, too filling, too warm and too dark. Was I wrong. It is delicious. It is smooth, it is light, it is cold and it goes down easy! YUM! I am a new convert! The Guinness tour was excellent. Obviously it was the most crowed place we went but we all were engaged and learned a lot about making beer!<br />
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On Saturday night we booked a reservation at a cheesy restaurant that had a set menu, bad wine, good Irish music and hilarious 3rd rate Celtic dancing. The music was fun, people sang along and we all enjoyed it. Then the dancers came on stage. Wow. My jaw dropped to the floor and it was hard not laugh. What they do is impressive and I am sure very difficult, but inside I was dying! Michael Flatley, eat your heart out!<br />
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On Sunday morning, we split up. Pete took the kids to the Killmainham Gaol for some harsh reality. They had a great time learning about the Irish Potato Famine and the all the young kids that were sent to jail for stealing bread and coal. I went to Grafton Street and Temple Bar to peruse the shops and take in some of the Dublin street life! <br />
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All in all, we loved Ireland, the people were so nice and friendly, most of the food was tasty, it was beautiful and we loved the Guinness! Hopefully we will get back to see Northern Ireland at some point!goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-25293698742541494252013-02-14T10:31:00.000-08:002013-02-14T10:31:18.562-08:00Ooohh la la Paris<br />
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Ahh Paris...it really never gets old does it? I was so fortunate to have one of my best friends come for a visit in January! Cathie and I have known one another since our UOP days, have travelled with each other and raised our kids together! It meant so much to me that she would take time out of her busy family and work life, push those responsibilities to her husband's busy plate (thanks Nels!) and come visit me! I encouraged her to "bring a friend" as I wasn't sure if I would continue working in January, so she brought her friend "the other Jen" and we all met up in Paris!</div>
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Luckily, we all were on the same page when it came to doing Paris-walk, walk and walk some more. If we saw something we liked, we would check it out or we were happy popping into a brasserie and having a glass of wine! Gotta love the cafes in Paris - outside seating and heat lamps. Practically like summer and still great people-watching. January is cold in Paris but the sun was out, we had our walking shoes on and we had NO kids to slow us down!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Louvre-we did a speed walk by!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying some frozen sunshine in the Jardin des Tuileries</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lle de la Cite</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notre Dame</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pont des Artes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the Sacre Coeur</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorry I do not know the name of this church-by our hotel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clock tower view from inside the Musee d'Orsay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this chic café in the Musee d'Orsay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sculpture Galleria in the Musee d'Orsay</td></tr>
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After 3 days in Paris, we Eurostar'd up to London in a quick two and a half hours. How easy is that? The UK had been hit with a snow storm so we arrived to my first snowy England experience! Riding the Underground and the train out to Twyford on a Friday evening commute, in a snow storm and with Cathie and Portland Jen's big duffles proved to be interesting. We crammed on a train with the rest of the Berkshire commuters and was met by Pete at the train station! Pete was rewarded with this great looking burger at dinner that night!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coffee whilst we wait for the train at Twyford train station</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cathie on the train to Paddington-notice her many layers of clothes to keep warm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cathie and "the other Jen"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All in all, it was such a fun visit! I am so blessed to have a friend like Cathie! Thank you for dropping everything and coming for a visit! So fun to meet "the other Jen" who fit right in, provided comic relief and lots of fun!</span></td></tr>
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<br />goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-10239382308808153442013-01-15T06:15:00.003-08:002013-01-15T06:15:22.595-08:00I Dreamed of Africa!For as long as I can remember, I have dreamed of going to Africa. There was something surreal and mysterious about it to me-did it really even exist? A place so different than anything I had ever been exposed to. After my parents went several years ago, I saw their pictures and thought to myself, "I want to go to there." It was top of my bucket list (sorry Cathie, I know you hate that phrase).<br />
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Fortunately, when we began planning a Fruehling family trip (the last one had been to Maui when my kids were 2), Africa came out on top as the clear choice. Originally, we were going to hit Tuscany, rent a villa and eat a lot of gelato...but I started to worry that it wasn't "active" enough for the three grand kids. So I threw out a sailboat rental through Turkey or Greece, but when my dad said, "Well, what about Africa?", my hand shot in the air! Winner winner, chicken dinner! So began 2 years of planning a trip of a lifetime.<br />
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My dad found an amazing travel company called Uncharted Outposts (<a href="http://www.unchartedoutposts.com/">www.unchartedoutposts.com</a>) . They planned our entire trip with lots of input from all of us of what we "wanted", organized all air in Africa and found us the perfect bush camps. From the get go, our agent was in tune with the ages of the kids, our "outdoorsy" factor and that this was going to be a once in a lifetime trip. We were very pleased with all aspects of the trip and I would highly recommend them.- no detail was left unattended to!<br />
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Ironically, when we planned this trip two years ago, we had no idea that we would be living in London. Logistically, living in London turned out to be excellent for all involved. We had a short 8-9 hr flight to Kenya and my folks, Will and Rye could come a couple of days early and do a little London sightseeing.<br />
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Our trip had been planned by Uncharted Outposts as a slow progression of wildlife viewing, with the climax being the last camp we stayed at in the Masai Mara. What I loved about our trip is that I honestly can't say that I had a favourite camp...all three were unique in their own way and we took away very different memories from each one.<br />
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Our first camp was Lemarti's Camp (<a href="http://www.lemartiscamp.com/">www.lemartiscamp.com</a>) - an eco-friendly bush camp in Laikipia, Kenya. What was unique about this camp is that it is owned and operated by a Samburu warrior and his wife (a famous Kenyan fashion designer). They lease the land from the Samburu tribe and therefore all the staff are Samburu. Complete with spears, elaborately beaded head pieces, jewellery, bare-chested and colourful kikoys (sarongs), the staff was amazing. Our NUTTY and HILARIOUS guide was Boniface and his partner in crime was sweet-natured Prame. <br />
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At Lemarti's Camp they specialize in engrossing you into the Samburu culture and you become one of the family. While the game viewing isn't spectacular, the local knowledge by the guides on the history of Kenya, the flora, fauna and the culture is what this place is all about. They prefer to do bush "walks" instead of drives, village visits, spear throwing practice, honey harvesting and swimming in the river. Pete even taught one of the Samburu warriors how to play a New Order song on his Samburu guitar-like instrument during sundowners (cocktails) one evening!<br />
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The first day we arrived, we were whisked off to attend an engagement ceremony at the village. Instantly, we were introduced to the father of the man who was to be married and the host of the ceremony. The Samburu women were chanting and singing in a circle (in the middle of the goat's enclosure, i.e. poop pile), and young, barefoot kids hovered around the outside of the women. We were tentative at first. The Samburu kids were not. They followed us around, we took pictures of them and they loved to see themselves on the screen. The kids were dirty, many had eye infections, there were flies and the sheep, goats and cattle roamed freely. This is exactly what I wanted Henry and May to see...they didn't need to see extreme poverty in an African slum, but they needed to see that people live differently than they do. A simpler life... a life that is all about family, community and traditions that stem from hundreds of years ago.<br />
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We toured the engaged woman's hut...a one bedroom 15 x 15 mud hut. Ironically, she wasn't allowed to participate in the engagement ceremony. She was inside the dark hut while all the women, grandmothers and kids hovered around the outside if it. The Samburu believe in plural marriages, and both male and female circumcision. We ran into two 15 year old boys wearing only black and with white ash on their face. Boni explained that they had recently been circumcised and that they were now considered warriors. This of course led to the discussion of what is circumcision amongst the grandchildren...an enlightening conversation to say the least! Of course, I had to ask about the female mutilation (when the kids weren't around). Boni's response was interesting. He said of course he supports it as it is part of his culture and it is what has always been done. I asked if he would insist his daughter have the procedure and what he thought of it happening to her. He said while he would want to uphold the traditions of his Samburu culture and make his daughter a more desirable wife for her future husband, if she ever said to him that she did not want it, he would abide by her wishes.<br />
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After we met the women, we were brought to the warrior's dance party. While they do dance, what they do really well is JUMP! And they can jump high! What was most interesting was the various stages of dress by the men. Some were kitted out in very elaborate Samburu clothes and beaded jewellery, others were half dressed and a couple wore pants and a collared shirt. I guess it is the same as in our world - you have the metrosexuals on one scale all the way to the slobs! We watched the warrior's jump for a long time - kind of like a dance party, they came in when they wanted, did a series of jumps, let out a big WOOP and then let someone else have a go. We got in on the act and did some jumping and some dancing with the warriors.<br />
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The next couple of days were spent bush walking, eating the amazingly fresh food the Samburu chefs cooked, spear throwing practice, beading with the local women, sitting around the camp fire, watching the Honey Man gather honey up in the trees and swimming in the river. This might have been the most memorable activity the kids participated in-Boni and Prame took the kids into the brown, thick river that the camp is nestled against. We were assured that crocs and hippos had not been spotted in a "long time"...um, gulp, well ok. I declined the swim and chose to watch from the luxurious chaise lounge in the "mess tent". The kids swam and floated but the real fun began when Boni took them on the other side of the river to the MUD HOLE. He proceeded to pile and slather mud all over the kids and they slipped and slided like hippos. Pretty cool to hear your children shrieking with joy and screaming "I'm a big, fat hippo!"<br />
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All in all, our time spent at Lemarti's Camp was outstanding. The décor was Moroccan/Kenyan safari chic, the food was fresh and delicious (my favourite food of the trip), the service was incredible and the guides were unforgettable. Keep in mind, that this camp is serious glamping...no running water, no electricity and pit toilets (whilst sitting on an elephant's jaw bone). The canvas tents are on platforms, powered by kerosene lanterns at night and the bathrooms are all outside (very private). It was a great start to our trip!<br />
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<em>At this point in the blog you might want to know where all the pictures are? Well, thanks to Pete, we took over 1,000+ pictures, so uploading the best ones would take me forever. <strong>I have provided a link at the bottom of the page that will take you on a 12 minute slide show of our entire trip. Grab a cup of coffee, tea or a glass of wine and settle in...</strong>The best thing we did to prep for this trip was to rent a 400m telephoto lens to use with our DSLR camera!</em><br />
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With great sadness we said goodbye to Boni and Prame at Lemarti's Camp. On our way to the airstrip, we saw our first gazelle and zebra! We were so excited! Little did we know what awaited us at Sirikoi! We jumped on our chartered plane which would take us 20 minutes away to our next camp in the Lewa Conservancy. There were some thunderclouds forming so the pilot flew very low which allowed us to see tons of animals. We all were shrieking "Ohh I see elephants on the left side. Oh giraffes right below." When we landed at the next airstrip, there were zebras, cape buffalo, and rhinos grazing in the plains on either side of the runway. We knew this was an omen to what this next camp had in store for us!<br />
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We set off in two, tricked out Land Rovers for the 20 minute drive to Sirikoi (<a href="http://www.sirikoi.com/">www.sirikoi.com</a>). As we were passing a giant fallen tree, we came upon 5 magnificent lions lounging in the afternoon sun. There is nothing to prepare you for these majestic creatures and we sat and watched them for a good 30 minutes, cameras clicking. The light was unreal and the lions were trying to wake up and get ready for their active evening ahead. Up until this point, the cousins were so happy to be together and spent most of the time hanging out, laughing and being loud. I will never forget when the kid's truck pulled up to the lions, they were so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The looks on their faces was classic...shock and awe at it's finest!<br />
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Sirikoi Camp is a remarkable spot. Nestled in the Lewa Conservancy, along a small creek attached to a watering hole, underneath a canopy of giant, shady acacia trees, Sirikoi is a gem in the bush. Surrounded by an expansive green lawn and an electric fence (only to keep the elephants and the giraffes from ruining the acacia trees-all other animals are free to wander the property), the communal lodge and massive outdoor deck is situated. To the right are 4 posh canvas tents with electricity, running water and flush toilets and to the left is the pool and the 2 bedroom cottage where we stayed. Service was amazing, the management and guide service spot on and the food was delicious! All food was communal style on the great big deck and eaten at one big long table. We met Aussies, Canadians, San Franciscans and 2 gay men from LA in the film industry (they were a hoot!).<br />
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Being that this was some serious game watching, we were up at 5:45am for a quick coffee and then in the trucks for a 3-4 hour game drive as the sun came up. Back around 10am for breakfast, then chill/nap, lunch at 1pm, then more chill time until you went out on an afternoon game drive at 4:30pm and then dinner at 8pm-we did not miss a MEAL! Of course, all of the adults would nap but we had a tough time convincing the kids it was in their best interest to nap, which resulted in some mid-meal pass outs and tough to get up in the morning. We were at Sirikoi over Christmas and we had a lively Christmas Eve and a lovely late lunch to celebrate on Christmas Day.<br />
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Throughout our 4 days here we saw everything-giraffes, herds of 25+ elephants, lions, black and white rhinos (Lewa is one of the only places with a large percentage of these endangered animals) common zebras, Grevy zebras, cheetah, hippo and the elusive leopard. The Lewa Conservancy does a great job of conservation for the landscape and the wildlife. Because of their large rhino population, they pay particular attention to rhino horn poachers. They have a military presence of game rangers who spend the night out in the bush every night watching for poachers. We went and saw a demo of the poacher sniffing Bloodhounds who can track a poacher into their home village even.<br />
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What I liked most about Sirikoi is the waterhole and the fact that I could lay in my bed and watch 4-5 elephants come wandering in for a drink. Or that I could sit on our deck, and have a bunch of young impalas come in and run all over the lawn, pronking and chasing one another. I joked with our host, Amory, that he had buttons he could push under the table that signalled the zebras to come in while dinner was being served. The entire camp was relaxing, in a beautiful setting, fun to mingle with the other guests and had great game viewing (but not super intense).<br />
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After 4 days at Sirikoi, we packed up and headed to the famous Masai Mara Reserve. The weather during our three days in the Mara was wet. While it was still warm, we had several thundershowers and heavy down pours which made the game drives quite slippery and the river crossings quite exciting. After we did a touch down on the airstrip to clear all the animals on it, we landed in the Mara to be met by our guides Duncan and Daniel. On all sides of the airstrip were zebras, topi, gazelle, impalas and wildebeest in abundance! Duncan and Daniel were terrific guides and new everything there was to know about the Mara and its inhabitants. The details they gave us about the different wildlife was astounding-we all learned so much! As we headed to Mara Plains Camp, we ran into a herd of elephants on the hillside and observed the "Honey Boys" - 2 cheetah brothers just lounging under an acacia tree.<br />
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Our last camp was called Mara Plains Camp(<a href="http://greatplainsconservation.com/mara_plains/index1.html">http://greatplainsconservation.com/mara_plains/index1.html</a>), located in the Olare Orok Conservancy...30,000 acres of private land, with only 4 safari camps. Like the Lewa Conservancy, the Olare Orok allowed us an intimate view of the animals without the congestion of the regular Mara Reserve. There are three prides of lions (20+ per pride), several groups of cheetah and a couple of leopards among all the other cape buffalo, wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, zebras, hippos and antelope. Mara Plains is located on a small river and in order to reach the camp you have to cross a suspension bridge so it feels like you are entering rugged, wild terrain...and you are! Hippos and crocs in the river, a resident leopard under one of the tent platforms and various bush babies, monkeys and jennet cats scurrying around on top of the tents! The camp hosts, Richard and Lorna, are lovely people and have a great passion for their work. Richard is a bevy of information on conservationism, Kenya, animals, and well, everything! Lorna the Lioness was refreshingly warm, great with the kids and an interesting, free spirit to talk to. She even read the kids the first chapter of her children's book she is writing-it was brilliant! They both went above and beyond to make sure we were all happy!<br />
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Oh one last thing on Mara Pains Camp...it is owned partially by National Geographic and partially by a husband-wife team of filmmaker and photographer, Dereck and Beverly Joubert. They live in Botswana but spend a lot of time at Mara Plains. They primarily study lions and leopards but they have been making documentary films for the past 30 years. They were at Mara Plains when we were there so lots of interesting conversations...<br />
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After 3 days at Mara Plains Camp, we reluctantly said goodbye and flew back to Nairobi. We stayed at a day lodge called The Ngong House (we were on a red eye home) full of tree houses and delicious food (<a href="http://www.ngonghouse.com/">www.ngonghouse.com</a>). We swam, relaxed and we took a visit to an elephant orphanage later in the afternoon. Uncharted Outposts had adopted 3 baby elephants for the kids and we got to watch them eat their evening bottles. They were quite cute and all of them curled up and fell fast asleep. May, Henry and Rye like to say they got baby elephants when asked what they got for Christmas.<br />
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A big thank you to my mom and dad for generously creating such wonderful memories for their kids and grand kids. We will never forget.<br />
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12 minute video links below - I think You Tube has better resolution! (skydrive and youtube):<br />
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Besides all the exciting adventures we have had, we also have to live here. We are not on vacation. I make lunches, drive the kids to various sports/events, go to work, clean the house, cook dinner, squeeze in exercise, have date night with Pete and then get up and do it all over again. It's Issaquah in England (and if you saw where we live, it really is Issaquah in England-cul de sac, kids playing, middle class families). Amazingly enough, we have all adapted well to the British lifestyle-the kids especially. We walk more, drive less, use the train as much as we can, shop more frequently due to refrigerator space constraints, and have become real experts at queuing and finding new pubs. But, I had a great friend of mine ask me if everything is as perfect for us as it seems to be from my blog and more frequent Facebook posts. And the answer of course it is not always so great 100% of the time. We have our homesick crying jags, we miss our friends and family, we miss our dog, we get sick of queuing, drinking warm beer and not having enough freezer space for all the steaks I would like to buy at Costco! Doing laundry here takes a while and our kitchen is as big as a shoebox...but you adjust and make the best of it. There is a lot of bureaucracy and paperwork to do any little thing here...currently our passports are with the "DMV" of England so we can get a provisional driver's license, so we can take the written test and then take the driving test. It has taken 2.5 months of phone calls, appointments and more phone calls for us to get our vaccinations lined up for our trip to Kenya in December. Once we get our passports back, it will be more paperwork, queuing and waiting at the Kenyan Embassy for our visas. I know, I know, really rough stuff. Bad problems to have...blah blah blah right?<br />
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But the experiences we are giving our kids far outweigh the annoying daily "life" stuff we deal with here. It's just a new normal for us and will make each of us stronger, adaptable and further define what we want out of this one life we have.<br />
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Which leads me to our Autumnal recap... school started again, I started my job as a Teaching Assistant, I did a 21 mile walk, Halloween came and went and we had great trips to Stonehenge and Rome!<br />
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On a lovely Sunday in September, we joined our friends, the Grimsteads, for a lovely afternoon at the Ham Polo Club. Think divot stomping, champagne and picnicking. Ahhh, British life!<br />
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Henry started secondary school here at The Piggott School. Secondary school in England is basically middle and high school combined -11-18 year olds. It is big and scary! After a few bumps along the road for him and me (losing things and organizational battles), he has settled in and doing quite well. He has 16 classes over a two week period that consist of maths, English, history, geography, french, German, PE, religion, life skills, design technology, art, food technology, science, drama, music and technology. I got carpal tunnel just tying all that! He is keeping it together for the most part and looking forward to a class trip to Normandy in the Spring!<br />
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May is the BWOC at Polehampton as she is a Year 6! May has really come into her own self since we moved here. She has diversified her athletics by adding cross country and a bit of swimming to the mix, along with her 12 hours of gymnastics training a week. She had her first meet this past weekend and came in 1st on bars and 3rd on beam! All the while, still being an excellent time manager and getting her homework done! In September she decided to run for House Captain of her "house" at school. She wrote a speech and presented it to the entire school and was voted Vice Captain of her house (against 7 other girls)...not too shabby for the new American kid. When she told me she got it, I was in shock! She said "Why Mom, you seem surprised?" I replied, "Well actually I am surprised. You are new here, you only went to that school for 3 months." Never been prouder!<br />
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My job as a teaching assistant at the Infant school could be an entire blog post, so I will make it short. Teaching anywhere after teaching at Red Gate was bound to be tough. A 5 acre farm with classes of 16 vs. a class of 60 4 and 5 year olds? Shut the front door...it has been an adjustment. The kids are darling in their little uniforms and accents, the women I work with are awesome and the curriculum is similar to Red Gate. I will say that in my 12 years of teaching, I have never had such bad behavioral problems - it is only a couple of kids but they manage to suck all of our time and energy. My original contract was only from this first term through December. They were able to extend it through Easter, but I decided it was in my best interest to decline the extension. It was not how I wanted to spend my time in England. So starting in January, I will be a full time Mum, get back in shape a little and have some full days to get into London and do some more exploring.<br />
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At the end of September, myself and 4 other American gals did a 21 mile walk through the Five Valleys of Stroud. In one day. It was a great opportunity to get away for the night, stay in a "silly cute" hotel in the country and then walk with 4 amazing women through the gorgeous Cotswold countryside. One thing I have learned about being an expat is that "most" of them are like me...outgoing, easy to talk to, fun and up for anything. You have to be if you want to survive in your new environment. Ironically 3 out of 4 came to live here from Seattle so we constantly are having small world encounters and a taste of home.<br />
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Being American and loving everything about Halloween, I decided it was our job to throw a killer Halloween party for the kids and their friends. It sounded like such a great idea at the time, but when I added in my energy-sucking job and how the new normal is here in the UK, it might have been a bad idea. I had all sorts of aspirations (from Pinterest of course!) to make cute crafty Halloween decorations, darling, delicious Halloweeny food and play lively tween-age party games . FAIL on so many levels! Baking here can be tricky with all the milligrams, milliliters and Celsius oven temps. Crafting can be tricky when they don't have the supplies you need like liquid starch and cheesecloth. You get the drift.<br />
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Of course, when it came down to it, the kids all had a ball. They didn't care that the cupcakes were from Costco and the decorations didn't look like they were suppose to look. They played half of the games I set up and would rather chat with their friends and play in the street. All the British kids said it was the best party they had been too. So mission accomplished. The best part of the night was that it was the same night as the Twyford Bonfire so after the party, we all walked over to the town park and watched a great firework show and a HUGE ass bonfire!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boys loved the pumpkin seed spitting contest and Pete<br />
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A couple of days later, after a 3 day visit from our friends the Bices, it was actual Halloween. We were leaving early the next morning to fly to Rome (kids had the whole week off for half term), so I really tried to downplay Halloween. It was pouring buckets of rain and super windy so it was not the most inviting night to go out T or T-ing. Pete took one for the team and the kids were classic when they got back - they got about 12 pieces of candy! Their expectations were a tad high!<br />
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The next morning we were off to Rome for a long weekend! Because of the busy week before hand I was not quite "on it" when it came to the schedule of sightseeing to be done in Rome, restaurant reservations and even picking up a guide book! But it was a spontaneous weekend full of yummy gelato, amazingly old sites, delicious wine and loads of carbs! The weather was fantastic and we walked miles and miles through this remarkable city. We definitely want to go back (maybe adults only) soon! Hopefully more pictures will be coming soon...my laptop died on me and all the pictures from the past two months went with it. We are going to try and recover but not holding out hope.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakfast croissant from our hotel balcony!</td></tr>
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In prep mode for American Thanksgiving this coming weekend! Cooking a turkey and all the trimmings for 18 Americanos! Preceded by the 1st Annual Twyford Tour de Turkey Tennis Tournament for the mums and some sort of combo American/British football for the kids and dads! Then the Christmas rush will be upon us with loads of Christmas fayres, lights of London, pantos (a Christmas play?), and holiday parties! Then the King and Queen of Idaho arrive, accompanied by their entourage of Lord Fruehling and Little Lord Ryebonesjones for a magical Christmas in Kenya!goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-286003899014173672012-10-23T09:13:00.000-07:002012-10-23T09:13:07.694-07:00Ongoing Observations in the UKNow that we have been here almost 7 months, I thought I would keep a "running record" about quirky and random things I notice about the British (my Brit friends should find humour in this, I think? If not, I really am just being cheeky). <br />
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The American Woman's group I joined has a document that outlines the "4 stages of relocation". According to the document, it says I am in the "I Hate Britain" phase of relocation, which I really am not. I love Britain! There are just things that are "different" between the two and I am sure Brits come could up with loads of things about Americans!<br />
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<li>While dining in the UK, I have noticed that napkins and all utensils are placed on the right of the place mat. Is it because the Brits want to be different (drive on the left, steering wheel on the right, table settings on the right?) It works for Pete and Henry as they both could never remember how to set the table the American way!</li>
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<li>They love their pets here. There is a pet store on every corner. Every single neighbor has a cat and they are always in our yard. They LOVE dogs which is excellent (makes me miss Stella and want to start a dog walking business). But then I remembered something about my time spent living in Italy (1988-89): when I walked I always looked down at the ground so I wouldn't step in dog shit! Same here...dog shit everywhere. There really is no "dog poo" fairy in the UK.</li>
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<li>Speaking of dogs, of course there are boxy-headed labs everywhere. Love them! But the most common dog I see are those skinny Greyhound things. Pete says they are all retired "track racing" dogs...</li>
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<li>Most of the kids I have met (H & M's friends) are all VERY polite. I like that. And their voices are just so stinkin' cute. See below for an updated commentary on the kids take on what is different about British kids.</li>
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<li>When you need to "go poddie" (thinking of you Wendy R. when I say that), you can ask where the loo is, which is cute and quaint. But most people ask where the "toilet" is...cute and quaint? Not so much.</li>
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<li>We have a cool BMW to drive which is really fun! It is diesel so it gets great gas mileage! Score. But everyone has them...they are the Toyota Corolla of Europe. On my runs, usually towards the <em>posh</em> Henley on the Thames, I see much better cars: Bentley's, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, etc...you get the picture.</li>
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<li>So far, almost everyone I have met, has apologized for the horrid weather we had this past summer. Although the first two weeks we were here were SUNNY, since then it really has been rainy and dreadful. Flooding, rivers breaching their banks, and constant down pour. But do I mind? Not really...I am from Seattle. I just keep reminding them that we are use to it! When it is sunny here, it really is beautiful...just like Seattle.</li>
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<li>Top Gear is a National Treasure...it is on 24/7. Which is great because I love that show.</li>
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<li>Speaking of TV (that will be an entire other post), they also rerun Friends here 24/7. Which is great because I love that show, too. In fact, I just watched the one when Ross was going to marry Emily in London, but he said Rachel's name, and Monica and Chandler hooked up for the first time, and Joey was homesick for the US (but he did meet Fergie (Princess not the Pea) and Phoebe had to stay home because she was pregnant with her brother's babies (best line ever in a TV show). So that is fun to watch.</li>
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<li>They say poo here, not poop.They say wee instead of pee.</li>
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<li>When you see someone you know you say "How are you?" in the US. Here they ask you "You alright?" (with a high pitched ending on the alright part) which always makes me feel like something is or should be wrong with me? It really implies the same question but asked in a different way.</li>
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<li>The jury is still out on British fashion trends...high fashion is good...common fashion, not so much...lots of colored hair on ALL ages, especially older women with pink/purple/red hair. The horrid underwear (knickers) jean shorts with thin black tights underneath. But I love the skinny bright colored khakis the boys wear here! Even Pete got some! And I love the hats and floral trend going on!</li>
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<li>Now that I am working, I have had to adjust my American lingo to British lingo. It's like I am in BESL (British English as a Second Language). I can't tell a child in my class to go hang his sweatshirt on a hook and to put on his pants. I must recreate it to "Go hang your jumper on your peg and put on your trousers". "Put your rubbish in the bin. "Would you like a baNAna or a toMATo?" In the long run, I guess it is good for my brain...</li>
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<li>The main diff Henry and May say about British kids is that they sure use CURSE words a lot! May came home one day from school asking what a C U Next Tuesday was? Uh hello? And I heard a 4 year old tell his Mummy to "Go F*&^ herself!" Uh hello? The way he said it, in the right context and fluidity, tells me it was NOT the first time he had said that colorful phrase.</li>
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<li>Pork products are prevalent here. I have never cooked so much bacon and sausage in my life!</li>
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<li>The Brits are obsessed with backing in to all parking spaces. They are experts at it and I better get on it because apparently you have to pass your driving test while driving backwards practically!</li>
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<li>At least once a week, while chauffeuring the kids to different activities, Marvin Gaye's song "Sexual Healing" comes on. I swear to god, ONCE A WEEK. I mentioned it to Pete and the next time he drove, he heard it too!</li>
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<li>Speaking of music...we all know Britain has some produced some great music over the years - tons of classics (the Stones, the Beatles, the Who, etc...) to current hits (Adele, Florence, The Spice Girls, One Direction)...etc...BUT, why do the radio stations insist on playing Lionel Ritchie, the Bee Gees (I get it... they are Brits) and Marvin Gaye ALL THE TIME? I have taken to playing my music player in the car since I can't find a decent radio station.</li>
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<li> British TV...ahh good old British TV. I have found some great shows here but the biggest difference is the quirky humour they use...so funny! I know there are some classics I need to watch from Masterpiece Theatre but some of the current shows are so silly. I love the English versions of shows like Jersey Shore and The Hills too...all those reality celebs are in the trashy mags here but I don't know who any of them are yet! Luckily I get my People and US at Costco.</li>
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<li>Back to British slang...telling my 4 year old students to get out their rubbers is very distressing to me...it really means get your erasers out but still, I feel weird saying it. Even weirder to hear H and M's friends say it to one another.</li>
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Don't worry, I am sure we will come up with some more funny Britishisms! I need Pete to have a think and contribute some workplace quirks! Cake on Thursdays maybe?<br />
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We really are having a great time-the Autumn has been lovely and we had 6 weeks of sunny week-end weather. I spent a great weekend in the Cotswolds with 4 other American women doing the 21 mile Five Valleys of Stroud Walk for the Meningitis Trust. We are looking forward to "half term" break next week...we are having a Halloween party this week-end, our good friends the Bices come early next week, Halloween and then off to Rome for a long weekend! When we get back we will have the whirlwind of the holidays (hosting Thanksgiving here for some American friends!) in London!</div>
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Hola Amigos! We had a wonderful "hols" in Spain and France to finish up our summer! My folks had mentioned San Sebastian and Biarritz as great places to visit so we took their word for it and were not disappointed. </div>
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We flew into Bilbao in the evening, went to the Guggenheim Museum the following day and then headed to San Sebastian. We arrived to WARM temps and to a HUGE festival happening in Bilbao! We couldn't figure out when the cab driver told us he couldn't get us exactly to our hotel? We soon learned because the Grande Semana was happening outside of our hotel! He dropped us off "close enough" and we had to weave our way through massive amounts of people, beer gardens, and stages with our rolling luggage. We got a lot of funny looks. After checking in, we hit the streets in search of dinner and the infamous leg of "jamon"! We didn't have to look far...jamon was everywhere and it was quite salty and delicious! As we were eating, we suddenly heard these huge booms and explosions...we looked outside and the most amazing firework show was beginning right above us! Apparently the Grande Semana is an 8 day festival and the highlight is the firework contest held every night! It was at least 45 minutes long and fantastic.</div>
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After dinner, we strolled the festival, listened to music and hit a Spanish pastry shop for a little dessert. By about 12:30 AM we were done but there were no signs of this thing ever stopping. We braced ourselves for a loud, sleepless night and we weren't disappointed. I think I fell asleep by about 4 AM when things started to quiet down.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our hotel room in Bilbao-the kids had a view of the LOO from the bunk bed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little did we know that Bilbao was hosting an 8 day Grande Semana (the Big Week) Festival!<br />
Beer gardens, people everywhere and HUGE firework shows!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had to duck into a pinxtos (tapas) bar to get away from all the people!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That is not Pepsi...but we did enjoy the walk up "drive thru" of beer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We think she is the Grande Semana "mascot" - weird, clown lady with large breasts.</td></tr>
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The next morning we were ready for some contemporary culture! I had no idea what to expect at the Guggenheim Museum and to say it was great is an understatement! It reminded us, of course, of the EMP in Seattle and we loved all the art. I highly recommend-it was fantastic. So fun to see such contemporary architecture amongst really old Spanish buildings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There she is-fantastic museum!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were familiar with this artist because in Sun Valley (where my folks live),<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">plenty of room for May to show off her skillz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry was excited to see the "Puppy"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this shot of "Puppy" and the museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is about midnight on our first night in Bilbao</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People, beer and music everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made it to San Sebastian (via bus)...first night out to try some pinxtos in the Old Town</td></tr>
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After the museum, we took a bus down to the beachy, surf town of San Sebastian. We rented a flat for a week about 2 blocks from the beach. Our flat was ok. Nothing great, but it had a kitchen, a "washing" machine and US Disney Channel. The kids were thrilled! I wasn't that thrilled with it but we made due for a week and I just kept us out of there except to sleep!<br />
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San Sebastian is a much bigger town than we thought and has a couple of really great beaches. We preferred the surfing beach with bigger waves, but they also had a great big, calm bay with kayaks and SUPs. We hit them both, ran the beaches in the AM and hiked up the big mountains surrounding the city! Surfing was very popular and people come from all over to surf in San Sebastian. The waves looked pretty good and some big swells came in!<br />
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We took the train from San Sebastian to the French resort town of Biarritz. It was rainy and windy when we arrived and we had one umbrella, so we ducked into a cute little pizza place. After lunch, it at least stopped raining, so we strolled along the beach promenade and the cliffs of Biarritz towards the aquarium. Everyone else had that idea too so we ditched that and went to the beach. The clouds cleared away and the sun came out, so we decided to go for a swim in French waters. That night, we ate dinner in the town my father recommended called St. Jean de Luz.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Jean de Luz, France-charming French beach town. Definitely our favorite!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a delicious seafood bonanza in Jean de Luz!</td></tr>
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We fell in love with Jean de Luz and went back the next day. So charming, great shops and food, a lovely big beach and beautiful French families. We spent the entire day at the beach. The kids were reluctant to befriend any other kids because 1) there was the language barrier and 2) quite a few of the girls (May's age) were topless. Now we had been to the beaches in Spain the days before, so kids were "aware" of the topless situation and it had been repeatedly discussed before the trip. In fact, I used the topless situation to my advantage by just threatening to go topless on our trip if the kids misbehaved. It worked like a charm. But the BIG difference between topless in France and topless in Spain is that French women are in shape, effortlessly chic and gorgeous, whereas <em><strong>most</strong></em> of the Spanish women were older women, in tiny bikini bottoms who really should have a cover-up on...don't get me wrong, we saw some nice looking Spanish women too, but not as many. I will say that the recent "Princess Kate Topless in France" scandal has been much easier to discuss with the kids because they know it is just how it is "done" here in Europe.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celebrated 15 years this August!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the train back to SS from Jean de Luz</td></tr>
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We had a wonderful dinner at Mirador de Ulia on our last night in San Sebastian. It is a 1-star Michelin restaurant and there are actually several 1,2 and 3-star Michelin restaurants in SS. We decided to start with a 1-star to ease the kids into their first true "foodie" experience. They did really well, had great behavior (til the end...see pics) and were very adventurous. Foie gras, tuna tartare, and salmon roe...pretty good. It was a beautiful restaurant high above the city, but unfortunately it was pouring so my hope of getting a great family photo with a beautiful Spanish view was dashed. Oh well...we had a memorable night and a fantastic vacation!<br />
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Boy vs. Food once again...who will win?</td></tr>
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It seems an entire month went by without a blog post from the Davis crew! I know, I know...you all were heartbroken! Somehow our measly 6 weeks of English summer is already over and school is back in session! But it doesn't mean we weren't busy in August...the Olympics took up the first two weeks of our summer holiday and a trip to Spain and France took up our last week...I can't even remember what we did the three weeks in between?</div>
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A quick recap of the last week of the Olympics...it was full of Team USA and Team GB medals in athletics (track and field for us Americans), beach volleyball, basketball, volleyball, triathlon, and sailing! We were lucky enough to go see the Men's tri and spend an entire day at the Olympic Park and Stadium. </div>
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The men's tri was by far the most crowded event we attended throughout the Olympics...mainly because the event was held in Hyde Park and there were many FREE viewing points throughout the event. But we had tickets, so we got through the crowds and had a chill place to watch the event. I will say that the tri was fun to watch but it isn't a constant, action packed event. A lot of waiting around for the athletes to swim, bike or run by us. Pete was busy with work, so Henry invited his friend Jamie to come with us...he was so excited to go to the Olympics and we were happy to give him the experience! We even took him to the USA House with us...with strict instructions not to speak. No Brits allowed!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gold Medal Winner of the Men's Tri~Team GB</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Train home was hot and crowded but we struck chocolate gold</td></tr>
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A couple of days later we hit the Olympic Park to see a day of track and field. It started at 9 AM so we had an early departure of 7 AM to allow enough time for us to train/tube to the Park and then go through security.It all went smoothly and we were pleasantly surprised to see our seats were in the 2nd row-not bad, not bad at all! It was a HOT day and our seats were in the sun the entire day-I wasn't complaining but by about 2 PM we were all fried! We watched the men's decathlon, hurdles, 200m relay, women's high jump and men's pole vault. The energy of the stadium was electric and everyone was in a great mood. </div>
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After our event was over, we went in search of the Today Show. The Olympic Park is massive and so we spent a lot of time walking around, checking out the different venues and tried to find Matt Lauer. Eventually, we had success and we saw a few US track and field athletes, Helen Mirren and Elmo!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May is wearing my mom's sweatshirt form the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front row of the Today Show with May's sign-who saw us?</td></tr>
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All in the all, the London Olympics were fantastic! We felt so fortunate to be here just in time to take part in all of the Olympics had to offer. From the Torch Relay to the Para Olympics, it was a perfect time to be in London. Despite all the preliminary<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">cynicism</span> from the Brits themselves, the Games went off without a hitch (apart from the flag snafu with North and South Korea), transportation in and around London was, overall, very easy and Team USA and GB did brilliantly. All of the Brits I have spoken with are beaming with pride for Britain and thought it was a great summer of sport. The thousands of volunteers (the "gamemakers") were amazing and stole the show. My new boss, the head of May's school, was a Gamemaker for the week before the Olympics began, all the way thru the Para Olympics, until the day before school started. She said it was an experience of a lifetime! I hope that the momentum generated by the Games will continue on and remind the Brits what a great country they live in. Well done London, well done!<br />
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The Para Olympics were awe inspiring and I am disappointed we didn't work harder to find tickets. Watching these athletes compete at such high levels and seeing their true joy at being there and winning is something all of us will never forget. As Oscar Pistorius said, “You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.”goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-36747980882657841362012-08-06T04:59:00.003-07:002012-08-06T04:59:56.870-07:00The Olympics Recap ~ Week 1Well, we are on Day10 of the Olympics 2012 in London and what a 10 days it has been! We have been jam packed with events and sightseeing! And we still have another week to go! We were so fortunate to have our niece, Kate Olson, visit us for the Olympics! She is 15, 6 feet tall and a beautiful girl, inside and out! The kids were beyond excited she was coming and I looked forward to showing her London!<br />
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<strong>Kate Arrives</strong></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing like a 7 AM arrival at Heathrow!<br />
May was game to get up early with me and go get her!</td></tr>
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<strong>Opening Ceremony</strong></div>
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So let's talk the Opening Ceremony...based on the many Facebook status updates I read, the folks in the US of A were not impressed. However, the folks in the UK loved it! The night after the ceremony we went out to the local pub for dinner and the table next to us were all gushing about it. In my opinion, I thought the concept was great and it was very British. The Brits are very proud of their history (as they should be) and their contribution to history, music, literature, politics and past and present pop culture. It was a bit "busy" with all the greenery being taken away (so soon) for the Industrial Revolution to start but I loved how they forged the Olympic rings. I could have done without the NHS bit but I am not a Brit and so I don't know how that all related to the Olympics. We loved Mr. Bean and the Chariots of Fire and we loved the Queen and James Bond! I was a little bummed that the Queen looked so unhappy to be there...albeit it was late (didn't start til 9 PM here and ended at 12:30 AM) so I get it. At least William, Kate and Harry seemed to be enjoying themselves!</div>
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I always love the Parade of Nations...amazing to see the different sizes of countries and number of athletes, their outfits and how excited they are to be there. Pete and I decided we love the Spanish, Italian and Dutch teams-they always look like they are having a blast! We sat with the Ipad and looked up where countries we had never heard of were located, population and Internet presence. What I love is the PRIDE that the Brits have in Team GB - everyone is so excited for them! My favorite part of the OC was the lighting of the cauldron...love the copper kettles and how they all raised up together to create the cauldron. Beckham driving down the Thames in the speedboat with the fireworks...cool but eh. All in all, there were some good bits and there were some random bits (the big creepy baby). LET THE GAMES BEGIN!</div>
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<strong>Cycling and Gymnastics</strong></div>
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With Kate acclimated to the time difference, we were ready to start our Olympics extravaganza! Because we had two events so close to each other (gymnastics on a Sunday night at 8pm and then Beach VB the next day), we decided to stay in London for the night so we wouldn't be back and forth on the train. Our friends, the Grimsteads, graciously hosted us girls at their cottage in Richmond for a super slumber party! We arrived early on Sunday afternoon to a great lunch prepared by Dina and then headed to watch the women's road cycling race go through Richmond Park. Sun was shiny and it was lovely. Then came the rain...not just any rain but a torrential downpour! We had our rain jackets and umbrellas but it was soaking and very dangerous to the cyclists! But it was super fun and a great kickoff for our first Olympic event (and it was free).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making our way to our first event via train! All USA'd up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute hostess with the mostess,Dina, and her cute daughter Gabby!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rain would not stop the SMILES!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It really began to come down!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gabby and her mate Tyra!</td></tr>
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Slick streets and watching on a tight turn...we were hoping for some crashes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This poor Canadian rider fell and was bloody! <br />
Then her chain came off! Poor gal!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kind of biking and I dig her shorts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As soon as the bike race was over, the sun came out!<br />
Looking down Richmond Hill to the Thames.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the train to the gymnastics venue. May is wearing her Gym East warm ups!</td></tr>
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We headed back to the Grimsteads to regroup and dry off. It was so nice to be able to dump our stuff and not lug it around London! A big thank you to them!<br />
<br />Not knowing how busy the trains and tube would be, we set off 3 hours before gymnastics started. The train was easy and the transfer to the tube was seamless. There were minimum security lines at the O2 Arena so we got in with plenty of time to wander around, eat some dinner and explore the venue.<br />
<br />Taking May to see gymnastics at the OLYMPICS was special. She was walking on air and SO excited to be there. She was hopping around about to levitate off the ground. Meanwhile, I was a weepy mess as this was a BIG bucket list item for me. I love the Olympics and I had tears in my eyes the entire time.So special that we could experience it together!<br />
<br />We saw a preliminary team round with Teams Romania and Japan and a few independent gymnasts thrown in. So it was not the Fab 5 of the US team but it was still high level gymnastics. We were in the 3rd row, right in front of the bars, so we had great seats! We saw some great gymnasts and several of the Japan and Romanian girls made it into the All-Around competition taking place later in the week.<br />
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And the best bit is when we got back to the Grimsteads, Dina was up and ready for a glass of vino! Again, thank you to the Grimsteads for the sleepover...the breakfast bar of fresh granola and berries and chocolate croissants was awesome!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting closer to gymnastics and the excitement is building!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made it into the O2 Arena!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May was so excited! Just beaming!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have tears of joy in my eyes. So excited to be here with May and watch the OLYMPICS!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great seats-3rd row and right in front of the bars!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This brought back memories of Kerri Strugg.<br />
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<br />The next morning was a perfect day to do some great, GIRLY, shopping before we hooked up with Pete and Henry for Beach Volleyball. We hit Sloane Street, Kings Road and slowly made our way to the Holy Mecca known as Harrods! Kate was really wanting to go to Top Shop so we spent some time there as well! </div>
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<br />We were running out of time so we reluctantly tubed our way to meet Pete and Henry at Horse Guard Parade. Many more people and longer security lines awaited us! We made our way in, got some lunch and hung with the masses! The vibe of beach volleyball is PARTY TIME! Everyone drinking beer, gettin' rowdy and having a blast. Inside the venue there is a DJ spinning tunes and an announcer firing people up with the wave, "ole" and singing! Not to mention the cheerleaders they had wearing 60's style bathing suits doing the congo! The DJ played music between every single point and the dancing girls/guys came out during timeouts. The lines at the beer stall were huge and beer was expensive! </div>
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<br />The sun was shining, we had great seats and an amazing view of the London Eye. We saw two matches: Brazil vs Germany (W), China vs Germany (M), Greece vs. Russia (W) and Great Britain vs. Brazil (M). The entire event ran so efficiently and they had matches start 20 minutes after one finished. Some great athletes to watch...reminded me of our Theta 6 Man Beach Volleyball my senior year at UOP...not! But we sure knew how to have fun!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like father, like son...photobomb!</td></tr>
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<br />Pete took Henry and Kate to a day at the Olympic Park to watch some swimming! Kate is a great swimmer and so it was so fun to take her to see her favs, Phelps and Lochte. Since I didn't go I will spare you the play by play...I do know they had a great day.</div>
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Some quick commentary on Ryan Lochte...he had a lot of pressure put on him to be the "next" Michael Phelps. I am sure it is hard for any athlete who is the "face" of their sport or country (Jessica Ennis of GB comes to mind here). He performed well at the 2012 Games with 5 medals won but the $25,000 USA grill he put in? Come on man. I find it hard to believe he paid that much for a stupid grill.<br />
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This is what he had to say about the London 2012 Olympics: "My last Olympics (in Beijing), I had a girlfriend -- big mistake. Now I'm single, so London should be really good. I'm excited."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-alipour1_78-1"> </sup><br />
This was followed up by his mother's comments on the Today Show when asked if he has a girlfriend...“He goes out on one-night stands. He's not able to give fully to a relationship because he’s always on the go.”<br />
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To read some more hilarious commentary on Ryan Lochte, here is a link to one of my favorite blogs:<br />
<a href="http://www.peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com/2012/08/ryan-lochte-and-his-mom.html">http://www.peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.com/2012/08/ryan-lochte-and-his-mom.html</a><br />
**WARNING**: she is crass and swears a lot so don't read if you don't like that sort of thing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What Kate had been waiting for...to see her boyfriend, Ryan Lochte, swim!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Henry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Home of the Crown Jewels...Tower of London is down 50% in attendance<br />
due to the Olympics so it was empty just for us!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeoman just hanging...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">20GBP for afternoon tea and a GREAT view! Totally recommend! <br />
Would be a great place for drinks too as they have a great deck!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry eats it ALL clenching the Kid vs. Food title!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were on a mission to find the USA House! They had a retail shop open to the public with Ralph Lauren and Nike Olympic goods. They do not publicize it is open to the public but we asked around. It is used for corporate sponsors and the athletes. They have a Budweiser Bar and apparently it is THE party to go too! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching women's all around gymnastics in 3D at the USA House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pete went with us to work from the Soho office while we double decker bussed it!</td></tr>
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After our great day riding the double decker tourist bus we ended up back in Piccadilly Square. We were able to hook up with our friends the Hughes for a great Italian dinner. It was fun to see old friends (Pete and I met each other at a party at their house) and hear about their great European adventure and their Olympic experiences! Heather and I were able to sneak away after dinner for a little one on one time...it was awesome!</div>
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Ok, I have a new sport that I am obsessed with. Yes, obsessed. Racewalking is the craziest sport I have ever seen. Pete and I watched it on TV yesterday and were mesmerized. These skinny men are crazy fit and sweating buckets. There are two races...a 12K race and a 50K race. Only the men do the 50k race...too much for a woman? One foot must be on the ground at all times and their leg must straighten all the way which produces that silly waddle they do. Sometimes they "look" like they are running There were referees scattered all along the course and as the racers got close to the end they were disqualifying people right and left. If you get three warnings from three different officials, you are out! They don't mess around! <br />
<br />But the thing that caught our eye the most was the lack of "support" in their race shorts. Add on that they are sweating like crazy and continuously dousing themselves with water, their bits/junk were severely outlined and jostling about! And once we noticed that, we could not stop watching...down there. Pete ended up leaving the room... he just couldn't take it anymore! I of course was hooked and could not tear myself away! The biggest offender was the Irish racewalker, Robert Heffernan (pictured above in the green). His junk was glaringly obvious. I mean could they at least wear compression shorts? A jock strap?<br />
<br />We are thinking of going to watch the women racewalk next Saturday or do we dare go watch the men's 50k? I don't know if Pete could handle that and I certainly don't want to expose my children to such filth! Stay tuned! Oh and I apologize if I have offended any racewalking enthusiasts with my snark!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">PETE'S GUEST BLOGGING COMMENTARY:</span></strong><br />
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sub-culture that is race-walking, rumor has it they hang out at a pub called
the ‘Cock and Balls’ which features a rooster and pair of cricket balls in the
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Definitely not worthy of being an Olympic sport, unless they are carrying an egg on a spoon.</span> </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Oh and I promised video-here are a couple to watch. The second one is How to Racewalk. I recommend watching the first 2 minutes - WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2urNVmKnEaQ"><span style="color: black;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2urNVmKnEaQ</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47KyUUiQHU"><span style="color: black;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47KyUUiQHU</span></a><br />
Cheers!goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2545352750805923551.post-18274002505341184632012-07-26T05:54:00.000-07:002012-07-26T05:54:49.864-07:00July Recap and Olympic Preview!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
July has been crazy busy with all of the end of year school stuff, sports, visitors, a trip to the ER and a lot of RAIN! But as of this week we have had some HOT weather and hoping that summer has finally arrived...on July 23! We are gearing up for a visit today from Pete's sister's daughter Kate from Texas for an epic Olympic extravaganza! How many events, castles, retail shops, palaces, trains, tubes and tourist sites can we fit in 9 days? Ready go!</div>
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<br />Henry is winding up his first cricket season. We had a lot of rain outs but we learned a lot about the sport of cricket. Henry's coach can never remember any one's name so he calls Henry "American boy" and me Jenny. Cricket is a lot like baseball...slow pace but a lot of strategery and brilliant to watch when the sun is shining. Not so great when it is cold and damp. But the best bit is that they have a full bar at the pitch...parents having a pint while the games goes on and on and on...</div>
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I like to watch cricket with Henry's friend Jamie-he knows his stuff!</td></tr>
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May was chosen to represent her school, Polehampton, at the annual Reading District Running Races. There were at least 20 other primary schools that competed and Polehampton did brilliantly. They choose the fastest runners to compete. May was part of the Mixed 80m relay - complete with a baton (said with the emphasis on the "bat" not the "on"). Her team made it to the finals but there was a baton drop (not by May)...May did brilliant and ran her team from last place to not last! Henry's mate won the 600m race and broke the record! <br />
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May participated in the swimming GALA at Polehampton for the Inter House Cup! She was the anchor in her mixed relay and caught up to help her house win the race! She has found her inner athlete here in England! Not one picture of gymnastics on this entire blog! She is doing gym 10.5 hours a week but has not competed in a meet yet. Unfortunately the End of Year Sport's day was cancelled the last week of school due to a rainy, slippery field. This would have decided which house won the CUP for the year! May was chosen to represent her house, Loddon, in the Squadron running race-the fastest kids from each house. So a bummer that they cancelled the entire event.<br />
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Henry would have competed in the swimming Gala but he ended up in the hospital for a night - more on that below. Henry is very into tennis and is playing every chance he can get. He is going to tennis camp after the Olympics once May resumes her gym training.<br />
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We couldn't let the 4th of July pass without some sort of celebration. It was very strange seeing all the Facebook posts about 4th of July celebrations and not be a part of it! So after a wild goose chase all over town to find fireworks, I finally found success at a great fancy dress (aka costume shop) store! You wouldn't believe their selection of dress up stuff and they had a fantastic mustache selection! But success was found with the fireworks! So May made cooked up a festive American flag tart, we grilled up some burgers and corn on the cob! Henry's buddy, Jamie, came along for the dinner and fireworks! We had a quiz of American facts during dinner and am proud to say we knew most of the answers!</div>
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When my mum was visiting, she bought us an annual pass to the Historic Palaces of Britain. A couple of weeks ago we decided to hit up Hampton Court Palace. It was a somewhat sunny day so we headed out early...the palace was King Henry VIII's (a Tudor) weekend home. It was a PARTY palace used for giant celebrations, lots of booze and women. Henry VIII was married 7 times and beheaded 2 or 3 of his wives...he was know as the fat, sweaty and nasty king...<br />
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Pete mentioned to me one day that a co-worker of his was selling some Madonna tickets and did I want them...I said yes, a 1,000 times, YES! She was playing in Hyde Park on a Tuesday night - it was going to be muddy from all of the rain but I called up Dina and she was game to give it a go! Madonna in Hyde Park, in London, a week before the Olympics? YES!</div>
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I was able to sneak into London early in the afternoon so I walked miles just poking around L-Town! Dina and I met at the Dorechester Hotel in Mayfair for a pre-concert glass of vino, then headed over to the Audley Pub for another pre-concert glass of vino. Audley is a famous pub where all the young financial boys go...it is packed with men in suits drinking pints! We headed to the concert, the sky was clear and the mud was actually quite minimal! LMFAO (Party Rock and I'm Sexy and I</div>
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Know It fame) opened for Madonna and were hilarious! Madonna can put on a show and is controversial as hell - guns, blood, swastikas, and Catholic Church references galore! She was good but she really sang only a few of her hits! She had some pre-recorded hits she mashed up into some of her new stuff and that's how she got them in without really "singing" them. Kind of lame if you ask me. But at 53 she can still rock on! It was a late night (despite the Hyde Park noise cut off time of 10:30pm) but so much fun!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gettin' my festival wellies on! Because of all the rain Hyde Park was muddy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drinking cheap wine out of mini-plastic bottles was not beneath us!</td></tr>
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Our GREAT friend, Tom Bice, came and stayed with us one night while he was in town for work! It was excellent to see him, the kids adore him and so great for Pete to be able to hang with his BF (boyfriend, best friend, you decide?). Unfortunately the rain put a damper on any great plans we had but were able to sneak a walk along the Thames and a pub lunch in Henley Town in to the day. We watched some Wimbledon and then had a lovely dinner at the Bull in Sonning. Afterwards the three of us were able to sneak off to the pub down the street for a nightcap!</div>
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Henry was complaining of shortness of breath the day Tom was here and the next morning woke up feeling awful. He laid around all day with me watching the Men's Final of Wimbledon and did not move. I finally decided to take him in to the A & E (accident and emergency). We didn't know where to go or how it all worked...we had not been to the DR yet. It was hot and crowded in the A&E but we had called ahead and gotten a number so we were seen fairly quickly. They did some nebulizing treatments and put him on oxygen. At about 10pm they decided he needed to be admitted because he was relying on the oxygen to breathe...we had anticipated this so Pete packed a bag and I had to go get him and swap the car. Pete graciously took one for the team and slept with Henry at the hospital...well no sleeping really occurred. I won't even post the pic of him in the A&E-it is too scary to see. The one above is the next day when he was feeling better. He was discharged at 6pm the following day and spent the rest of the week at home. He missed his school play his year put on, the swimming gala and his Leaver's Prom...it was such a bummer! So I have no cute pics of his class all dressed up in tuxs, suits, ties and fancy dress! But he is feeling much better and back to his normal, chatty, high energy self!</div>
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This past weekend we went to the Tree of Life...part of the Cultural Olympiad for the London 2012 Games. Given a grant, the Tree of Life came to life thru music, song and 1200 local school kids from the Thames Valley. There was a whole story behind it...no trees left in the world so they built this industrial tree, there were monkeys, ants and fire that threatened it, etc... It was in a beautiful setting at Stonor Park, we picnicked and watched this very interesting production! It was cool and something we never would have done in the States!</div>
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A big step in every kid's life is graduating from elementary school to middle school! In the UK they call it going from primary to secondary school so the same thing really! Although secondary school here is ages 11-18 so it is like middle school and high school combined. Henry will be going to The Piggott School next year which is an excellent school and has received high reports. He was sick the night he met his tutor (homeroom) teacher but I went and he is with a bunch of his friends. The graduation at Polehampton was super cute, lots of singing and lots of weepy mums! I imagine I would have been weepy if I had been at Sunny Hills with all of my friends and our kids that had been together since kindergarten. They had a big slide show and it was fun to see all of Henry's mates when they were little!Thanks to Henry's teacher at Sunny Hills, Mrs. Kleinkopf, Henry and I were able to watch the Sunny Hills slide show!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry and his teacher Mrs. Stockdale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last day of school</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gang going on to Year 7 at The Piggott Academy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May and her mates, Larissa and Hermione</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First sunny evening at the George and Dragon deck</td></tr>
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This past Monday I took the kids to a local amusement park for getting such great report cards! Henry has never liked roller coasters but he has over come his fear and we did some amazing coasters. May wore her hair high on top of her head and figured out to stand on the back of her shoes so she could meet the height requirements. It worked for all but one ride! It was hot and sunny and by 3pm we were done with the park! Stinky and sweaty!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Took the kids to Thorpe Park amusement park for getting such good report cards. It was the first hot day and they had great water rides. This is the Tidal Wave-we were soaked to the bone but it felt great!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For those of you familiar with Sun Valley-we found a Desperado's!<br />
Not quite the same!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">The Olympic Torch went through Henley a couple of weeks ago but it was the week Henry was sick so we didn't get to go see it. I was determined to check this off the Bucket List, so we headed to Richmond early yesterday morning (7:50am train) and met up with Dina and her kids to watch the historic event! It was super fun, festive and got us all reved up for the Olympics! Afterwards we had a lovely pub lunch on the river and then the kids and I headed into London on the Tube to do some Olympic fashion shopping and to pick up our Olympic tickets from the US will call place. It was hot on the tube, hot on the street and hot waiting in line for an hour to pick up our tickets! Luckily the kids were able to go lay in the shade in the park and read while I waited in line. But success-we have our tickets and are ready for the Olympics!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry and Hunter waiting for the Torch!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crowd is building!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here come the official Torch Relay vehicles and the odd Olympic mascot!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Official Torch bus with all the past and future runners and their torches!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here she comes with the torch!</td></tr>
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We met our friends Dina and Darren Grimstead with their two children Gabby and Hunter. We had a wonderful day at the Royal Ascot and it was fun to dress up in our posh, style guide approved clothes! The people watching was spectacular and the horse racing was exciting! There was quite a bit of buzz for a horse from Australia called Black Caviar. He had been undefeated in all of his races in Australia so he came to Royal Ascot with high expectations! It was a close race and in the end Black Caviar won his highly anticipated race! The kids did great and had a blast! It was fun to see the Queen in her grand horse drawn carriage make her way to the Royal box!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tickets came in a gigantic envelope with a "style guide" on dressing suggestions and<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole family was high-falutin'!</td></tr>
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The next weekend we attended the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley on Thames (a quick 10 minute train ride from our house). The Henley Regatta is 5 days of rowing for teams from all over the world! I went for a run along the river a few days before we were slated to attend to get a feel for the atmosphere. I was able to get up close to the starting line and watch the umpires get the boats off! It was sunny and hot which would be ideal for a lovely day at the HRR.</div>
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We planned this as a kid-free day with a couple of Pete's co-workers and the Grimsteads. We went on a Sunday as the Regatta was winding down and all the races were the finals. While I heard all about the dress code here, it seems as if the Regatta was a little less formal. There were still lots of hats and posh peeps, but more preppy shorts, with a tie and blazer vibe happening. We were really hoping for great weather and eventually it cleared up at the end of the day. We bought tickets for the Regatta Enclosure which had a small bar and not such a great restaurant. There are people lined all along the river bank tailgating and picnicking. The best way to watch the race or enjoy the Regatta would be to be on a boat - easy to rent and a fun way to get up close to the action. We trained it up to Henley from Twyford, mimosas in hand! We had a lovely lunch at one of the riverside restaurants and watched University of Washington crush Brown by 3 lengths! The sun came out as we were finishing the last races and it was a lovely, chill day. We had left the kids at home with Gabby and Hunter for a chill movie/xbox day and plenty of non-choke foods! We got home and the house was in tact, as well as the children!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally the sun came out post-races!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rain did not stop us!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huskies beat Brown by a mile!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Leander Club (affiliated with the Outrigger Canoe Club-we need to <br />
work that connection next year!) We had no flair to get in there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preppy rowers everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Topsider boat-like ya do!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Punting-this gentleman was working hard!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoe boat taking a break!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoe boat up front at the action!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dina's hidden stealth photography!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our lunch time neighbor taking a snooze and a cigar!<br />
Wonder how many years he's been coming to the HRR?</td></tr>
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So the hats are stored away, our posh clothes are hung up and some great memories were made in the last couple of weekends! The Olympics are quickly approaching and the torch will be passing through Henley on Thames next week so we might try and catch it! The kids are still in school until July 20 so the next three weeks are filled with end of year activities! Henry heads to his new school for next year for a day to get the lay of the land, May was picked to run for her school in an inter-school relay on Thursday, I start my new job this week to meet the new kids coming in September, Henry is performing in a play next week, the kids both participate in the school's swimming GALA and Henry has his graduation/promotion and Year 6 Leaver's Prom to attend! Whew!</div>
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<br />Photography disclaimer: All photo credit for the Royal Ascot and the Henley Royal Regatta photos goes to Dina Grimstead! She was the Shutter Master for both days! Thank you!</div>
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Until next time! Cheers</div>goodoldchinwaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272607331695623611noreply@blogger.com0