Update on the war front

So I thought I would update you all with whats new concerning the trip to London. Its just over a month away and we are all getting excited. We bought our tickets. We are flying out at 7:45 pm on Dec 31st (New Year's Eve) and landing at 7:15 am the next day. We already booked our return flight as well. We will depart London on June 26th at 2:30 pm and land back in Boston at 4:50 pm.

I finally got a laptop from work. This is great because I now can bring the laptop with me to London and use it in the flat. When I get over there I am hoping to get the company to buy me an Air Card. It's a modem that uses cell phone technology to connect to the Internet anywhere. For whatever reason I can't get one here that will work there. If that makes any sense.

Also the flat we will be staying in will be much larger then the original flat. The new one has two bedrooms. Get this its cheaper then the old one bedroom flat, so the people after me will benefit for years to come. I don't know the exact address but I know the general location and it is still within walking distance of the office and still nowhere near any tourist stuff. Once I have the address I will email everyone in my contact folder but I will not be posting it here. Wouldn't want any wierdo's we don't know visiting us you know.

For all of you visiting I should warn you the dollar has lost value against the pound so it will cost just over double for everything. Another words if your dinner comes to 20 pounds then it will show on your credit card as more then 40 dollars plus most credit cards charge between 2% and 3% to do the exchange. JOY! With that said it will be expensive to do anything over there and we will be accepting care packages HINT HINT HINT!!!!

Halloween

Hope you all had a great Halloween. I know the Kimballs did. At my work Halloween is a day no work gets done. We have a pumpkin carving contest and a costume contest. The vice president and a few others judge the contest. The group that wins the pumpkin carving contest gets a $5 dollar gift card to Dunkin Donuts. The winner of the costume contest gets a 100 bucks! Not bad. So this year I went all out on both fronts. I starting growing a beard two weeks ago for my pirate custom. I also worked for three days on the props for the group pumpkin. I didn't win the custome contest but my group did win the carving contest!

Here are some pics.

Halloween