Wow my kids are growing up way to fast.. it seems like just last year I was running after Randy.. I don't think they fully understand that the faster they grow.. the older I get! I keep telling them to slow it down.. but my words go nowhere! So Randy.. "Happy Birthday to you.. may you always have the happiness and joy that you have now.. and may your world always be full of love and laughter! I love you so very much.. xoxoxox mom".
Well back to the trip.. We are home.. my house has the ususal travel trash. The bags are not put away yet.. the laundry is done though. So today after I take Randy to lunch.. I can come home and try to get things put away again. Not being a spotless house keeper to begin with ( I always seem to find other more important things to do...) I am sure I can whittle away at something.. so at least I can say I did something today to earn my keep :) I have a box setting here with stuff for two of my kids that I also need to mail.. but haven't done that either.. I did yesterday get to the grocery store. Food here is mostly cheaper then England. All though England is really BIG on premade up dinners. Kind of like the ones that you would find at Costco.. not frozen dinners but fresh dinners. But I will tell you.. you won't ever find butter over here like you do in Ireland or England.. I swear the butter fast is like 200 percent! But then again.. the cows don't stand and graze.. they lay down and graze! For real.. I kid you not! But the butter.. I swear I put 20 pounds on butt just from the butter alone! Oh.. good butter.. and for Stacy.. yes.. very good cheese over there too. The beef in England didn't have the flavor that Ireland beef did.. but then.. England food didn't have the flavor.. or very little flavor for that matter. There were a couple pubs that had drop dead fantastic food.. and that was Jack Myttons (poached salmon in white wine) on the canal.. and The Swan in Whitchurch.. and.. Pizza Express in London with the most fantastic deserts we had. At our hotel we found they made really good salmon.. So.. we ate alot of salmon over there and I tried a couple white fish dishes and they were pretty good.. our last week.. I think with the exception of the Chicken in Paris and the Italian at PizzaExpress.. we had fish (salmon) every night. And it was very good salmon that was made at our hotel. It was served with a vegetable sauce.. none like I have ever had before. Oh.. makes me hungry for it even now! Anyway..
Now I get to start thinking about leaving in November for Arizona... And parts unknown. There is a car hauler that Mel wants to get in North Carolina.. which I am not looking forward too go to.. So who knows what will happen there. We may or may not make it there. Or we might have it shipped to Tennessee and pick it up there.. which is a better deal for me. Something about a lot of traffic and a RV and 16 foot trailer behind it.. just doesn't sound great to me. Hopefully we will have it shipped as far west as we can get it.. but Tennessee might be the closest.. still better then the east coast..
Well going to stop here and get busy.. lots to do.. no UMPH to do it..
will write more later..
