Ice Cream Anyone

Last Thursday we had two of my favorite work events happen on the same day. Lunch with Ray and an ice cream social. Ray is the VP of our division and he walks over to our wing of the building and talks to my department every quarter about the state of the company and what not. People can send in questions ahead of time or ask them on the spot. The best part is the company brings in PIZZA. I love free food. I had sent Ray a few questions ahead of time. He called me on one of my questions. I asked what his favorite ice cream flavor was. Its black raspberry in case you wanted to know.

After lunch the landlord put on an ice cream social by the volleyball court. 6 flavors and all the magical toppings you could imagine. It was very good.

The video showcases the highlights of my daily commute to work along with photos of the ice cream social.

4th of July

The 4th of July has come and gone and for the majority of the world this meant nothing to them other then the US was closed. Yes, the 4th of July is the day we celebrate our Independence. My hometown always puts on a parade down main st, and fireworks on the town field. Lots of town folk turned out in their red, white, and blue to show their patriotic spirit. I kind of expected St. Georges day to be similar in England. I guess its a day to celebrate English patriotism, but I only saw a few places put out a couple English flags. Drag really. It would be a good excuse to get another day off work. Anyway I put together a little video. I picked an ironic song for the background music. It is as much of an unpatriotic song as you can find but it has a good beat. I think many hard core patriotic Americans would not approve, but its all in good fun. Plus I think my UK buddies don't want to get too much American patriotism shoved down their throat.

Morgan Lost Her First Tooth

Well the subject line pretty much says it. Katie and I as parents have hit a major milestone. We have children old enough to loose baby teeth. We gave her a buck for it. Many parents give more but really what's the point. Its not like she has something to spend it on. She was extremely excited and that is really the goal - to make her feel special. Mission accomplished. It will not be long now before I tell you about her first day at school. Now that will be a very weird feeling to have a child in school. It wasn't that long ago I was in school myself.

Interactive Data

So I wanted to take some pics of the office in the US so the guys in the UK can see it.

Interactive Data

Wait I forgot to post the last week.

On the last day Morgan and I visited the Geoffrey's Museum. It shows how the average house would be laid out and decorated in England through out history. At the end they show a house from the 90s and it had the same chairs we have at the flat.

At the end of the day we rode the number 8 bus all the way to Buckingham Palace. Then walked to Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Horseman's Guard, past Downing st, and up to Trafalgar Sq were we picked up the 15 to Tower Hill were we saw the Tower of London and Tower Bridge one last time. Then we walked back to the flat from there.

We have had a great time and we already miss it, but its also good to be home.

We have Landed

In case you have not yet found out we have landed safe and sound. We touched down in the US on Thursday June 26. It is good to be back in our own house with our own stuff. We had an exellent time but I think we were getting just a little tired of being cramed into that little flat.

My brother had a pig roast the saturday after we landed. This year he did a cow leg as well as a whole pig. It was exellent! I wish I had taken some pics to show everyone who was not present as it is hard to picture what a pig and a cows leg looks like on a spit.

The gang in London gave me lots of nice presents to send me on my way. In fact I am wearing my Union Jack socks right now. I already stained my green grape shirt. Hopefully Katie can fix it or Katherine will give me hell for already wrecking it.

I plan on making some videos of the house and the secret passage to show the London crew. I've got to finish cleaning the place so it doesn't look like a dump. I'm also going to make a best of London video.

After that I don't know what I will do with the blog. Our European vacation is done which is the point of the blog. I think I might have to modify the mission statement of the blog to just be a general place for me to post random videos and pics. I won't do a weekly update as I am not that interesting.

Week 24

So I missed a couple weeks in the end there, so I wanted to post them now.

On the 14th of June we went and saw the trooping of the colors which is when the queen's birthday is celebrated. Her real birthday is in April. She rode in a carrige down the mall (a road in front of Buckingham Palace). We were about 20 feet away from here when she rode past. Unfortunately she turned her head to look at the oposite side of the road when she went past us. We also saw Camilla, Prince Henry, Prince William, and the Duke of Edinborough.

After the parade we went to Regents Park which is a very formal garden like park which little paths, fountains, and hedges. The London Zoo is located in the park but the Zoo is tiny so we never bothered to go in.