Sunday, January 22, 2012
Waiting around
We've been waiting to move from Corporate housing to another place. Letty hasn't started school yet because we don't have an "address" but... we have found a place and we are scheduled to move in on Friday the 27th! (Keep your fingers crossed that they finish remodeling work in time.) As much as I dislike being a slave to the school schedule I am looking forward to it so we can have some normalcy in our lives. Plus the kids are driving me and each other crazy....too much vacation. We need to get rolling with things and be rid of this limbo state we're in. Here are some pics of life here lately. A couple weekends ago the girls and T-man enjoyed skating at the Royal Pavilion rink. I've never seen so many adults that didn't know how to ice skate. It was really funny as they all crowded along the wall, I wish I would have taken a picture of it.
They had these cute little penguins for the kids to help them skate.
If you're not careful you'll fall right off of the bottom of this slide. Especially if your sister is going faster and pulls you off. Letty had done that to Gracie just after this. After that she stuck to the sides so she could slow herself down.
Nice big sister giving loves.
Sprout loves the geese. She laughs and points and especially likes it when they go bottom up looking for food below.
I don't think England is as worried about liability. They had this awesome zip line also at Queen's Park not too far from T-man's work.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Next stop, England!
Before I get completely back logged. Here is an update: We flew to London on Dec. 22nd, drove down to Brighton and are currently set up in our temporary housing. We had a simple Christmas here and flew to Spain on the 26th. We returned to Brighton on the 31st and have been adjusting and exploring. We are in the process of finding our semi-permanant housing. Letty can't start school until we have that address so she will have an extended vacation although she has asked me everyday when she can start school. It's nice to finally be on the correct time, I think it took us over a week to adjust. I thought Sprout (aka baby A; I figured since she is one now, she should graduate from "baby"and T-man has been calling the kids vegetable nicknames lately) would have a hard time with it but she did the best. Here are our photos to date.
Eating traditional Spanish paellas. Richly flavored rice dishes.
Royal Palace in Madrid
"A scout is trustworthly, loyal, helpful and can be found at the Madrid zoo?" We had to go all the way to Spain to see a Boy scout founder Baden Powell.
Awesome view from the city of Toledo, ancient capital of the Spanish kingdom of Castille.
The amazing architecture and detailed work of the La Alhambra. It is located in Granada and is a palace and fortress built by Moorish rulers in the 13th century and was their last stronghold in Spain.
La Alhambra
On Christmas we took a walk around Brighton. This is St. Nicolas Church, the oldest building in Brighton. While most of what we see today is from 1400, the original building was built at least 300 years earlier.
Brighton by the shore
Looking for rocks on the beach. Yes rocks, this is not a sandy beach.
The clocktower (minus the clock) up the road from our place right now
On the Brighton Pier
The girls loved this little little ride. I think we let them go about three times.
Enjoying a milkshake from Moo Moo's. After this and a belgium waffle, we still hadn't had enough sweets, so we got some fresh donunts. You were right Jamie, they were so awesome. I think it was one of the best donuts I've had. I was so busy devouring it I didn't take a picture.
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