tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56566983344957589562024-03-04T19:49:42.399-09:00The Stock FilesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger337125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-62711670340583046402020-02-04T16:33:00.002-09:002020-02-04T16:33:25.617-09:00Caleb Art 2019-January 2020We finally got around to scanning the prolific amount of art Caleb has been creating in Kindergarten. Here we go, with all commentary from the artist himself:<br />
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That's me picking apples from the apple tree and I'm seeing how it's a wonderful day outside.</div>
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So that's a part of all my body parts and I did it at school.</div>
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That's me and I'm saying "I go to my house." I'm saying that because I'm right by my house.</div>
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That's a bat. And it's saying "Look I see a bat."</div>
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That's a kind of spacestation I made up.</div>
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That's a picture of my house and I was trying to write stars.</div>
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I was writing an apple. How I was writing it: first I wanted it to be an apple slice but then I changed my mind and then I made it a whole apple. That's why the lines are there.</div>
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I made a picture of the sun rising.</div>
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So I made this at art at my school. It's all different designs.</div>
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That's a picture of a jack-o-lantern at Halloween. That's a car that's giving everyone candy.</div>
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That's a design (on the left) and that's a museum (on the right).</div>
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That's a picture of an astronaut in a pumpkin suit on the moon. Me in the pumpkin suit.</div>
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That's a picture of the building and it's by lots of flowers. The people in the building planted the flowers.</div>
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That's a picture of something. So it's on the wheel so it's hard to move so that's why the wheel is on there. It's hard to move so now it's easy. </div>
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That's a picture of another museum and my house is right by the museum and there's a path from my house to the museum.</div>
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That's a picture of the American Flag and I bet you know what this word called a maze is. It's around the American flag.</div>
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That's just a picture of the space station.</div>
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That's a picture of a glove and a big house. </div>
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That's a picture of a pizza. A pepperoni pizza.</div>
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That's a picture of a deck in Texas.</div>
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That's a picture of another little land maze. A different kind of maze.</div>
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That's a picture of a building with hearts on the gate because everyone loves the building.</div>
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That's a picture of someone punching someone and the person that's getting punched doesn't like it.</div>
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That's a picture of me robot dancing. It says Mom on it because it's for Mama.</div>
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That's a picture of me and my mom holding hands because we love eachother and I they are bears and I got those green bears from my school because there's a naughty and nice color and there's two bears for each behaveness. Green and purple is the good sign and red and yellow is the bad sign.</div>
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That's a picture of a little game from Toy Story (my addition: I'm pretty impressed he copied that alien so well all by himself!)</div>
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That's a picture of a mat that holds snack. It's from my preschool when I was little. Every time I had snack at my school, I used it. When I was done with preschool, I brung it home. </div>
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That's a picture of collage of a baby eating cookies and popcorn by Devil's Tower.</div>
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That's a picture of a Christmas tree and there's a picture of me opening presents under the Christmas. I posted my name there. I just wanted to draw a giant star on the Christmas tree. I don't know why.</div>
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That's a picture of a monster with his hair on fire.</div>
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That's a picture of me and my mom talking to each other. "I love you." "I like it when you say that." I can't really remember what they say but I remember the pictures. I don't know what those question bubbles say.</div>
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That's a picture of me flying off to the moon in a spaceship at space.</div>
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That's a picture of me sailing on a boat with the American flag in the sea and there's a big wave coming near by the ship. </div>
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That's a picture of a rocket ship flying by the moon. That's just a silly moon.</div>
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That's a picture of my house. It says my name on the top. The chimney is holding my name.</div>
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That's a picture of a cat in nighttime by all the trees. The grass is kinda cool because it has all the flowers and stuff and I made this at art at my school.</div>
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The green isn't the sky! It's upside down! That's a picture of a drone and it's flying in the water because it fell down from the sky.</div>
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That's a picture of a police car and the siren's on which means it's going to something. It needs to go there fast. That's why the siren is on.</div>
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The activity day girls hiked flat top and Tom went as a chaperone and took these pictures. Celia still talks about that hike. She loved it so much.</div>
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Also in July, the Blue Angels came to town for the airshow. Instead of going out to base to watch the whole show, we went to the roof of a parking garage downtown to watch them fly over. It was the perfect compromise. Not to long. Not too loud. And no crowds at all.<br />
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Then it was dipnetting time. My favorite time of year! We arrived on a Wednesday evening and Tom got right in the water. He only caught 4, but they were gigantic. Each morning you can legally start fishing at 6am. I heard people talking about how they were catching, so I nudged Tom and we headed to the water. Tom caught 23 that morning in 2 hours! We filled up our coolers with gigantic fish and had to stop (even though the fish were still coming!). Our total for the year was 27 making 87 pouds of edible meat. The smallest fillet was 12oz and the biggest was 40oz (the biggest on record for us!). </div>
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We all had an absolute blast. Celia proved she was a true Alaskan by being able to correctly identify the sex of all 27 salmon correctly. Sabrina proved her Alaskan roots by participating in the tradition of throwing the salmon eggs up into the air to watch the seagulls dive-bomb to grab them. </div>
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This was also the first year that we had a real amount of raspberries. They're successfully taking over the garden. Last year we just got a handful, this year we got to enjoy eating them every time we played outside. The girls invented "summer sushi" where they wrap a raspberry in kale or lettuce or spinach.<br />
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Before we went to the UK in 2016 (two years behind...), we hung out in Seattle with the stocks. Ted had an old tube big screen TV that came with the house that no longer worked, but he found out that there is a giant Fresnel inside the tube TV, so he took it apart and framed the lens so they could play with it. They lit all sorts of fires, broke the birdbath, and cooked one tiny part of an egg. It was very hot, but only in one tiny place so instead of cooking things or roasting marshmallows, it would just burn a tiny spot really fast. But everyone had a fun time with Science in the Summer with the Stocks!</div>
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After the UK, we headed to the Trusty family reunion in Oceanside, OR with Marel's family. We did the annual photo in the mini loaf van and eating ice cream and the kids played themselves silly at the beach.</div>
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Oceanside has a parade each year for the 4th of July. The only requirement to be in it is to meet at the top of the hill at 10am. The Trusty kids always make a big showing.</div>
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Then we got to watch the fireworks from one of the cousin's rental houses. And Tom spent the evening capturing the fireworks. He was able to put together this pretty amazing picture from what we saw.</div>
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<br />TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-47808995964352256222018-05-12T12:44:00.002-08:002018-05-12T12:44:51.357-08:00Kids Art End of School 2018Here we are catching up on all the kids art for the year. Enjoy the file dump and the kids comments on their own artwork:<br />
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"That's me. That's ME. Oh. That's um, Keenan."</div>
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"It's a guy with a little egg-snapping hand and a big egg-snapping hand. I did it at Church with Celia. Celia helped me. Celia drawed the legs and I drawed the rest of it."</div>
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"I remember drawing that. That guy is me and with swirly hands like this (flapping his hand fast). Windy hands like this hand (still flapping). This hand makes wind."</div>
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"I colored it with crayons. It's a person that is little. I made it from the Greatest Showman. It's a little guy. The little guy is from The Greatest Showman."</div>
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"That's one of the climbing rocks (Brimham Rocks in England). What are they called. Oh! Brinham Rocks."</div>
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"That's a poky dinosaur! With cleats on it. Cleats are poky things on dinosaurs. I mean, that's Alaska with me in Alaska!"</div>
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"That's a twirling guy like this (twirling). He's twirling on his tippy toes like this (twirling then falling). Oh! I tripped. I will try not to fall this time (twirling). I didn't fall that time! I will try it on the other tippy toe! I will try it on both!..."</div>
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"That's Keenan. I made that the day before this day. I did make that the day BEFORE this day. But then that glue dried! That glue did. I made it after the bath at Mommy time. I mean at art time with Mommy."</div>
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"That is what I made with Church. I made me again with hair here (head), hair here (shoulders), hair (legs), hair here here here here. Hair everywhere. Even on our foots."</div>
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"That's a baby horse from Felicity, an American Girl."</div>
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"This is a fire-breathing chicken."</div>
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"A Ballet Pig."</div>
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"A Fingerprint Star."</div>
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"A baby bird."</div>
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"A Pirate Ship."</div>
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"Another horse from Felicity."</div>
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"A deer in the winter. And a crow that's scared of nothing. (It was going to be a background for a scarecrow Thanksgiving decoration in the fall and the crow was going to be scared of it.)"</div>
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"A drawing of Pocahontas."</div>
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"A picture of Bushy - a McDonald's toy that I got."</div>
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"A picture of my family."</div>
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"A PJ Masks of 2 of the nighttime villains. I couldn't get it done."</div>
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"These are the PJ Masks. I drew it for Caleb because he likes PJ Masks."</div>
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"This is my alien chef."</div>
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Marel comment: I had to add this one because this is totally Sabrina's humor. She invented a weird looking guy that shoves candy in your mouth when you stick your finger up its nose and your toe in its ear...? :)</div>
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"That's the leaf that I made at school for fall."</div>
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"That's my Halloween costume selfie."</div>
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"This is a family of elf sisters that control the seasons and they each have their own pet."</div>
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Marel comment: I love the dynamics of these two and this picture captures it so well. Caleb acts totally different with Celia than he does with Sabrina. With Sabrina he's wrestle and be crazy. With Celia he will calmly hold her hand and do anything she says.</div>
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We used to be so good at scanning and documenting art periodically. Well, life has caught up with us and since we haven't even finished documenting our travels of last summer and it's summer again... you get the picture... Buckle up... </div>
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I'll start with Caleb's since he only has one paper (both sides). Most of his artwork gets cut up immediately into tiny pieces (he's super into cutting right now). He's also obsessed with letters, so you can see his art is very geometric/letter based. </div>
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Caleb's Captions: "Something looks like Os" (top). "That looks like Os, too! - Where are the other pictures I drawed?" I said: "you cut them all up. These are the only ones you didn't cut." His response: "Awww. I will go draw another picture you can put on your computer."</div>
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I also LOVE when my kids get along (the dream of every parent). This past year, Celia drew an entire activity book for Sabrina to complete. It was awesome. Here is a selection of three of the completed pages:</div>
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Now Sabrina's work from her Kindergarten year. Here is her artwork from the year, captioned by her:</div>
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It's a rainbow that I drew at school with me under it. </div>
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That's Ariel, Flounder (on the right) and Sebastian (bottom left corner).</div>
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That's a shining star.</div>
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That's Tweek and Sandy in Octonauts. Sandy is Tweek's friend turtle.</div>
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That's me and Celia jumping on the trampoline at Nana and Papa's house. Those dotted things are raspberries. I drew that at art. </div>
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That's a birdhouse with a bluebird on top of it.</div>
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That's Rapunzel and Pascal.</div>
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That's Ariel again.</div>
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That's me on a sled bumping into a Christmas tree. I used stencils to draw this.</div>
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That's an owl sitting on a branch and I used stencils with this.</div>
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These are two flags: The Big Dipper, the Alaska flag and that's the red, white, and blue flag of the United States.</div>
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That's a Christmas tree.</div>
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That's Buttercup, a fairy. She's a buttercup fairy.</div>
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That's Holly, the Christmas fairy. </div>
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That's Caleb me, and Mommy. </div>
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That's my shirt design. At school, we were supposed to make a shirt about where our people in our family were born. At the top is what I like to do here: going bike-riding, flying on an airplane and fishing.</div>
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That's a story about foxes. "Once there was a fox. She only had a husband. One day, she had kits, all girls. She named them Kady, Emma, and Sabrina and lived happily ever after. The End." Everybody admits that I'm the best drawer in the class.</div>
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This is me as a dinosaur called the Sabrinaasaurus. I'm a flier. </div>
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That's Olaf, a penguin controlling a flying airplane. Celia, a mouse, and a snake. There's Caleb jumping on a trampoline and Daddy, Mommy, me, and a seal. </div>
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This is a book called "Fairies and Elves"</div>
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This is a water fairy and a sun fairy.</div>
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These are an animal fairy and a tinker fairy.</div>
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That's a fast-flier and a hunter.</div>
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These are the elves. That's a fire elf, Asari - I couldn't get the whole thing on it. That's an air elf, Aria. </div>
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Now we're moving on to Celia's art for the year. She just finished up 3rd grade and these are captioned by her as well:</div>
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We were studying different kinds of legs at school and we watched this video of a lion walking and then we had to draw Quadruped leg bones. It was fun to draw them. </div>
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Like I said, we were studying legs at school and we had to draw a picture of biped leg bones and I kinda messed up on the foot, but it still looks fine. I kind of drew a few of the bones in the wrong spot.</div>
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At school we had to write an elf story and draw a picture of an elf and I chose to name mine Violet and I think I went a bit overboard designing the planet they live on--basically their world. You see some of their world farther down (called Elfius a few pictures down). The writing below also goes with the picture. You can see that it's the back of the picture. </div>
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This is my "We-Go Hero" self. The We-Go Heroes is something that my Trusty side of the family made up and it's getting very big and old. Well, maybe not. It is technically a bunch of superheroes where everybody gets to make up what their powers are, what their superhero name is... all that stuff. My We-Go Hero name is Summer Party. You can maybe read the words but if you can't, some of my powers are: camouflaging myself, shooting glitter and temporarily blinding people. </div>
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This is Elfius, the home of the Elves.</div>
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These are the kinds of elves. There are also specialty elves which are very rare. And the season specialties are below. </div>
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These are the season specialty elves. They are sisters and, as you can see, they are very playful. Most specialties have pets that they were found with. </div>
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This is basically Violet's timeline. </div>
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This is not quite done and you might see that there's something weird on the bottom, but we have no idea what that is. This is an unfinished picture of my family. The girl is me and the boy is Caleb.</div>
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This is basically a script from a play that we were supposed to do on Christmas but we never got around to doing. I wrote it. It is supposed to be the nativity scene with a few tweaks. </div>
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We headed straight for the Musee D'Orsey this morning and ate croissants in line. This line was only 20 minutes, so it wasn't too bad. The painting of the girls playing the piano wasn't there this time, though maybe we missed it. For being a much smaller gallery, it's sort of confusing and hard to tell which rooms you've already seen without walking into them all again (which we sort of attempted to do). My favorite part of this museum is, of course, the building that houses it. But again, the crowds were crazy and it was hard to really even experience the backside of the clock tower. Alas. We did see everything there (we think). And overall it's still a more pleasant museum experience than the Louvre. It also covers a time period of art that isn't very well covered by the Louvre.<br />
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From there we headed back to the hotel to pack up and check out but keep our bags at the hotel. We rode bikes from the hotel to the Pantheon which took quite a while because they're on opposite ends of town and we had a bit of a tricky time finding the Pantheon. Mainly because of all the one way roads. We would get to a road where we planned to turn and it would need one way the wrong way. So we would go to the next, and it would also go the wrong way. So we go one more, and it's also the wrong way! Eventually we made it there. Hugo, Dumas, Voltaire and many others are buried beneath Foucault's pendulum.<br />
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At this point, it was around 4pm and we had only had one croissant each and I was dying, so we bought some bignets off a street vendor and ate them on the Metro on the way to Rue de Grenelle (the place a friend of ours said to eat). There really weren't many cafés there, but we found one. I had a Croque-Madame and Tom had an "Ocean Salad" (with seafood in it, obviously).<br />
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We biked from there to the Trocodero to see the Eiffel Tower up close and saw hilarious professional engagement and wedding pictures being taken with the Eiffel tower in the background (again, with a giant football hanging in the middle of it... how romantic).<br />
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We took pictures and then took the Metro to the Arc d'Triomphe. There was some military gathering happening under the arch, so we couldn't walk under it, but we walked the loop around it on the opposite side of the street and took pictures. We then walked down the Champs E'Lysee stopping in Sephora to smell all of the "perfumes les enfants" (kid perfumes - a tradition of mine). I remember finding Mulan perfume the first time we went to Paris. This time they had Hello Kitty, Frozen, Playmobile Gene (?), Star Wars, Spiderman, and some Japanese character I didn't know. Our favorite kids fragrance was Star Wars.<br />
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Around 8:30pm, we got our bags at the hotel, walked to the airport bus stop, rode to the airport, walked to the hotel shuttle, packed on the shuttle bus to the hotel (Parisians really pack in the metro and busses!), and got here after 10pm. Because we have "status" (thanks to our credit card), we have lounge access, so we went and got the complimentary pastries and fruit and brought them back to our room. Then we're off on our long journey home! We love you all. Thank you for taking such great care of our kids while we've been away. I'm worried they won't even want to see us! :)<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-86277356519456070002017-02-22T08:03:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:06:22.206-09:00Notre Dame, Saint Chappell, LouvreEmail from June 27: <br />
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We traveled today by bike. Paris has a very elaborate bike sharing program with bikes all over the place. The first 30 minutes is free for each trip and then 1 Euro for the next 30 minutes of the same trip, so it ends up being cheaper than the metro and much more enjoyable. The bike lanes are shared with busses, so it does make for some tight spots sometimes. Also, the Parisians like to honk at everything. It wasn't us, but it does get very nervewracking hearing the honking so much right next to you on the road. But we did survive. Tom says it's not really any different than riding a bike through Phnom Penh, so he's more accustomed to this type of thing.<br />
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We rode to Notre Dame this morning and walked through. There was a choir practice happening, so we sat down and listened for a bit. It was nice hearing the choir and organ in the cathedral, but we were a bit taken aback when they started singing Mack Wilberg's arrangement of For the Beauty of the Earth in English! (the queue to go up the towers was ridiculous, so we passed on that).<br />
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Then we grabbed a quick brunch as we walked. Tom got a brie, tomato, cucumber sandwich on a baguette and I got a croque-monsieur. As we ate, we walked over to Saint Chappell. They had just cleaned nearly half of the windows last year by removing them pane by pane. So they looked absolutely beautiful and radiant. It's such a tiny church, but so colorful!<br />
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We wanted to get right over to the Louvre to make sure we had sufficient time, so we walked over there right after Saint Chappell, but the Euro 2016 crowds are really starting to get in our way! The line just to get in was over 2 hours long. The line for e-tickets was non-existent, so Tom and I had the brilliant idea of riding back to the hotel and printing off e-tickets. The whole process of doing so took just an hour and we got to ride all over the city on bikes while the losers all waited in line!<br />
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The Louvre is exhausting. We spent nearly 3 hours walking around the Louvre. We saw everything we wanted to see (both Vermeers were there this time!) and then couldn't walk another foot! We ate at a little café about a block away (that was clearly for tourists, but the food was alright and it was close so we could stop walking when it started to rain). Then, we rode over to a patisserie that was well-reviewed and took home 4 things. They got a bit jumbled on the ride home, but we ate them all while we watched Italy beat Spain on TV in our room. As it's raining on and off today and our feet are shot, we're staying in and will probably watch the England/Iceland game.<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-88123286805313216692017-02-20T15:40:00.005-09:002017-02-23T14:24:01.453-09:00ParisEmail from June 26: <br />
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We left Edinburgh this morning. We walked past the castle, grabbed a bite of food for the road, and boarded the bus to the airport. We found, upon arrival, our flight had been delayed a bit. So, we had giant hot chocolates (mugs with two handles!) and hung out. I took the opportunity to be sorted by the sorting hat on Pottermore. I was sorted into Hufflepuff which I was livid about, but then immediately after that, I lost my boarding pass and had to go find it (I did), so I'm at peace with the sorting. Tom, of course is Gryffindor.<br />
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We arrived in Paris around 3:30pm. We took the bus from the airport to the city and walked a few blocks to our hotel. It is pretty nice, but the room is pretty small (with an oddly large bathroom nearly the same size as the room. Then we headed out to Montmartre. We hiked up to the Sacre Coeur and caught the end of a Sunday service in the basilique. It was nice to see the church lit up inside for the service, and there was a nice long organ postlude.<br />
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It was really crowded up there, but we've realized everything here is so crowded because of the Euro 2016 going on. It's crazy! We walked around the area and then took the Metro to Notre Dame.<br />
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We walked across the bridge and ate some dinner crepes and dessert crepes in the Latin Quarter. Then we walked and walked and walked to get to the Eiffel Tower. I looked forward to sitting in the grass in front of it, but we found HUGE barracades of police cars and security. We realized the whole area had been turned into the "Fan Zone" filled with food booths and lots of TVs showing the games. We walked in and were frisked twice and had our bags checked twice. Security was unreal. And then there were giant TVs all over with the biggest one, which must have been 50 feet tall, right in front of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone was wearing a flag of lots of different countries. It was very festive and we stayed and watched the Hungary/Belgium game for a bit before heading home. We just got in around 11pm.<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-90961183439339325772017-02-16T19:51:00.001-09:002017-02-16T19:52:48.011-09:00EdinburghEmail from June 25: <br />
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Today was spent entirely in Edinburgh and this is our last night in the UK. We got up, walked down the road to see the Greyfriar's Bobby statue, and then spent nearly an hour looking around the National Museum of Scotland. There was tons to see, but we spent all of our time in the Scotland wing learning about early Scotland. Then we met up with friend, Brandon, and his wife (she's Scottish) for brunch close to the museum. Tom got a traditional Scottish breakfast (basically the same as English except with haggis in place of black pudding). His haggis was actually really good (I've only had gross, soggy haggis, so it surprised me that I liked it).<br />
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We walked up to the castle from there and waited in a long line to get our tickets. Our timing was actually quite good as we heard the one o'clock cannon in line just before we got our tickets and walked into the castle as everyone was walking out that had waited to see the cannon fire. So it really wasn't that crowded inside the castle. We did everything inside the castle (except go inside Margaret's chapel as there was a wedding there) and then started walking down the mile. They've already put most of the risers up for the military tattoo, so the view of the castle from the royal mile was completely blocked.<br />
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We walked in and out of shops on the Royal Mile for a while. We walked through some textile shops and saw all the clan tartan patterns. We went into St. Giles's Cathedral to see how Scottish cathedrals compare to English ones. This one apparently was originally built in the late 1200s in the Romanesque style, then after a partial fire was added to the Gothic style. So it was an interesting mixture of styles and didn't follow the conventional layout. Then we went into a small church that is now used as a market like a Pike Place Market or a Saturday market. We saw the original Greyfriar's bobby statue and the dog's collar in the Edinburgh museum on the royal mile. When we got out, we realized it was 4:15pm and the national gallery closed at 5, so we raced over to it and ran through (seeing the Vermeer... the only one he did on a biblical theme... and found some more Canaletto, which is still one of our favorites). From there, we walked by the Scott monument and up Calton hill for views of the castle and city. We could see Holyrood palace and the parliament building from up there.<br />
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We walked back through new town, old town, the royal mile, and back into the Grassmarket area below the castle and ate at Howie's on Victoria street (a recommendation from the Scottish Peter that stood by us two weeks ago at Trooping the Colour). We started our meal with "haggis, neeps, and tatties" which was haggis, mashed potatoes, and mashed sweet potatoes. It was all really good together. Like a fancy shepherd's pie. Then we ate dinner (I had spaghetti with prosciutto and veggies and Tom had a Scotch lamb roast) and had another Banoffee Pie for dessert. This one was better than the last one we had, but Tom's is still better.<br />
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Wales beat Northern Ireland today in Euro 2016, so that was exciting. In the end, it was just one goal and the Irish guy was the one to accidentally bump it in while trying to block it. Whoops.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-59178133647112132302017-02-14T21:58:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:11:22.260-09:00North to ScotlandEmail from June 24:<br />
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Well the big news this morning is that Britain has voted to leave the EU and Cameron has said he will resign in the autumn. Everyone seems to be a bit shocked it actually happened. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London were all pro-stay with rural England and Wales favoring the leave campaign. The young people were primarily "in" and the older were "out." At one point on the radio, he had a student on and an older lady on asking them questions about the outcome. At one point, they just stared yelling at each other. He said: "Pause a moment. Ladies. Pause a moment. You mustn't speak across one another." When it was clear he had lost control, he said: "I think I'll play One Direction" and he put on a song. It was hilarious.<br />
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The couple we stayed with last night were just the most adorable. He is a big music guy from Ireland. He apparently plays the organ, runs a Church choir, and when we were eating breakfast, he heard a song on the classical station he was listening to and said: "That's a lovely tune. I can't remember the name of it. I think it's Elgar." Then he got up, turned it off, and by memory sat down and played it on the piano. His wife said he recently had a large seizure and his memory isn't the same anymore. He finally figured out it was indeed Elgar and what the title was. They cooked us a large and proper English breakfast with black pudding, tomato, beans, mushrooms, toast, eggs, sausage, bacon, fruit, pastries, and OJ. They pride themselves on feeding well enough "it should last you until dinner." They also remarked on the way we ate our toast with jam and marmalade before the rest of breakfast. Apparently the English would only eat sweet toast after the main course, and they don't mix sweet with savory for breakfast.<br />
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We decided we'd run down to Northallerton after all and hope for the best. So, we ended up going to the records office. I found microfilm of the images I wanted, printed them off, and we drove North again.<br />
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Tom decided he'd rather go to Durham cathedral than Hadrian's wall, so on the way back up, we stopped there. Our hosts explained that it was a Norman cathedral started in 1093, and that he had got to play the organ there once. After visiting several Gothic cathedrals that had been built on the same sites as older cathedrals, we were interested to see what an old Norman Romanesque style cathedral would look like. After having visited a few Gothic cathedrals, we could appreciate what we learned in college humanities about the difference between Gothic and Romanesque styles. The columns are thicker and the windows are smaller, and overall the design is more simple. But there were things about it we liked better than the Gothic style. The columns had nice designs carved in them, and some used alternating types of stone to make patterns. It was still quite grand despite being much less ornate than the Gothic style. (Photos weren't allowed inside.)<br />
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We drove from Durham to the Angel of the North statue, which I've wanted to see in person since seeing a collage of pictures of it on Peter's bedroom wall in high school. It was very cool and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't nearly as tall as I thought it was. It's made of steel to celebrate the old steel industry in the area, and so it has a natural rust color.<br />
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The rest of the day was driving to Edinburgh. The satnav gave us some sort of rubbish directions so it took much longer than it should have to get out of Newcastle. We turned the car in twenty minutes late, but they didn't mention it. Congrats to Tom who successfully drove all through the UK without a single ding on the car! Then we found our place to stay, had a mixup where we didn't know how to get in, finally got internet and messaged her and got the code and now we're in our lovely flat in Edinburgh enjoying the show Upstart Crow which is a comedy show about Shakespeare. It's hilarious!<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-62668845058748329932017-02-12T08:09:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:11:01.468-09:00York and WhitbyEmail from June 23:<br />
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We had a lovely day today, but it didn't go nearly at all as planned and did include some major disappointments. Our breakfast was delicious in Harrogate. We were spoiled again by being the only people in the house. We drove to a Park and Ride and Rode into York in the morning. We walked around the town, saw the Shambles, and went into the minster. I don't remember seeing the downstairs display all about the Norman Church and Roman town whose remains are both still visible under the minster. Apparently in the 1960s the main tower of Yorkminster was in danger of collapse because it was built on the foundation of a smaller Norman cathedral (which itself was built over the old Roman fort where Emperor Constantine was baptized) so there was a big reinforcement effort. It was pretty fascinating. Also, the one thing we've seen happening on this trip that we wish we'd known about: the York Mystery plays! The York minster was all set up as a giant theatre space with bleachers of seats on the other side. Mystery plays were traditionally stories from the bible told over a whole town over a whole day. Each group of laborers would perform a part of it: the boatmakers would do Noah's ark, the bakers would do the loaves and fishes, etc. Well, they've taken a bunch of old scripts, modernized them and condensed them into one 3.5 hours mystery play from the creation to the passion and then the judgment. The sets and props were displayed in corners throughout the abbey and from what we saw, it looked very visually spectacular. There were giant balloon planets, a whole bunch of very elaborate animals, a giant tree, etc. It would have been cool to see. Alas.<br />
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After we got back on the bus and into the car, we raced off to Northallerton to go to the North Yorkshire Records Office with ample time before they closed. The problem with SATNAV and tiny villages is that it's so hard to tell you're going the wrong way until you're too far off the path! We were enjoying our lovely drive until we got to the end of the satnav directions and instead of being in Northallerton we were in Hull. Come to find out, we were nearly an hour off track, now too far from the records center to be there before closing.<br />
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At this point I was really, really mad. I have a whole list of things to look up in the Spennithorne records and then we were going to drive over to Spennithorne and look around the gravestones. Why is the family history the only part of this whole trip to go wrong? SATAN! UGH.<br />
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After finally pulling myself together, we realized we were close to the coast. So, we drove up the Eastern coast, stopped in Whitby, climbed its famous 199 steps up to the Church, and sat on a bench and ate our Marks & Spencer Sandwiches on a bench overlooking the sea. It's a lovely old fishing town with a harbour full of boats and brick homes lining the banks up the hill from the water. It was beautiful.<br />
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Then we called our host, told them we would be in shortly past 8:30pm. They were very kind, said it was no trouble, and then we drove right there. We're in Shotley Bridge now staying in the attic of a lovely couple that are retired Pub owners. They ran a nice pub, they said. No swearing, no TV, no food. It was a "talkie pub" where they served their own homemade beer. When we arrived, they sat us down, offered us a cheese platter, some cheese scones and some wine. We had orange juice instead. (They said we'd have been no use to them at their pub since we don't drink and they didn't serve food.) We were up talking to them until about 10pm at which point we finally came up here to figure out the plan for tomorrow. I really want to try to go back down to Northallerton, but its about 3 hours round trip (4+ if you include actual searching time) and we have to return the car by 6 in Edinburgh (and they actually close). So it's really not looking likely.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-61861844662312639522017-02-09T17:26:00.001-09:002017-02-22T08:12:32.026-09:00North YorkshireEmail for June 22:<br />
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We were waited on this morning by Claire, the home owner. We declined the full English so she wouldn't have to come early and cook. But she served us granola, yogurt, fruit, toast, etc. This really is a lovely home and we seem to have it to ourselves again. (For the record, the only B&B we booked OFF AirBNB was the only one we had problems with!)<br />
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Then we were off to explore again. We started in Knaresborough which is the next town over. I really loved it there. It was a really cute town built around a river and an old viaduct. We went to Mother Shipton's cave which claims to be the oldest tourist location in England. The main thing to see is the cave in which Mother Shipton was born and the nearby spring-fed falls which turns anything into stone. Mother Shipton was a famous prophetess in England that prophesied the London Fire among other things. The falls was crazy. It's just a giant sheet of stone under which they hang things. The spring water is so full of calcite, it turns anything into stone in just about 3 months. The whole place was quite bizarre and kitschy, but it was cool seeing the falls and the things turned into stone. Also, they own one whole side of the river, so we walked all up one side of the river in Knaresborough, left the attraction at the other side of town, crossed over the bridge, and walked all the way back through town on the other side. It was beautiful.<br />
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From there, we headed to Fountains Abbey, which is an old 12th century monastic cathedral that is now a ruins with grass all through it. This was one of my favorite places when we came in 2005. It was beautiful this time as well. We walked all around. Tom took many pictures. And we walked around Studley Royal which is the "water park" (as they call it, but it means very rectangular ponds with small stair step waterfalls) next to Fountains Abbey.<br />
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After Fountains Abbey, we drove just about twenty minutes away to a place called Brimham Rocks. This place was AMAZING! It was these amazing geologic structures all through a big park made of a rock called gritstone and we were completely free to just run and climb all over them. We scrambled up several of them, and Tom climbed up some of the taller ones. It was awesome! This is definitely on our list to take our kids to when we come back. It's known for a stone called "The idol" that is a giant bulge on top of just a tiny piece left under it, but the giant formations were just as amazing. There were natural caves, giant playgrounds, and sweeping views of Yorkshire.<br />
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After we were done playing and climbing, we headed to the original Betty's café, which is actually right in Harrogate (not York!) and traditional afternoon tea as Betty's is famous for (I got hot chocolate with mine and Tom got the ginger lemongrass herbal tea). And now we're back in our empty mansion again after another great day!<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-9459939932155847972017-02-07T11:22:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:13:27.514-09:00Lake District and Malham CoveEmail from June 21:<br />
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The breakfast at the Aphrodite (the hotel we ended up at) was amazing. Tom got a really fancy version of the traditional full English breakfast and I had eggs on toast on top of all the cereal, fruit, pastries, yogurt, etc that they had. (They even had champagne for breakfast!) After we ate and checked out, we took a hike up to the hill above Windermere called Orrest Head. It was a beautiful overview of the whole area.<br />
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After this hike, we drove up to Grasmere to see Dove Cottage, Stock Lane, and this tiny and amazing (world famous) Grasmere Gingerbread kitchen. It's so old and original, the store only fits two people and they pretty much only sell their gingerbread in 6 piece and 12 piece bundles.<br />
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We drove out of the Lake District and drove on our absolute favorite drive in all of the UK so far to Malham Cove. The road was small, but high up with open fields to either side and amazing views in every direction. We're not entirely sure where it was but it wound through Giggleswick, sort of side passed Settle to Langcliffe where we turned on the tiny Main Street in Langcliffe which turned into Henside Lane and Cove Rd and led us right to Malham Cove. (We followed the satnav's directions, and the way it took us in to Malham was a far more spectacular drive than the way it took us out. We looked at the map later to figure out which way we went in, which is why we're recording the streets here, so if we ever go there again we know which way to go.) It was down a single lane road with piled stone or shubbery fences through sheep pastures. The terrain was typical green rolling hills but strewn about with rocky outcroppings. Then there were the old stone fences separating the sheep pastures. We were going up and down steep hills and sharp curves on this tiny little road.<br />
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Malham Cove is a big limestone sheer cliff. We walked up to it and then hiked up to the top. The top is called Limestone Pavement - the slightly acidic rain water has cut through the softer veins in the stone at the top of the cliff to look like stones with big ravines between them. It was a very rippley stone formation. It was very cool, though somewhat difficult to walk on because it was so uneven. (This is where Hermione and Harry camp on the cliff in the Harry Potter 7 film.)<br />
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We drove to Harrogate to our B&B. Again, no one answered, so we called and left a message and went to dinner (it was only 6pm this time at least). When we got back at 7:30, she was here and waiting for us after getting our message and since she doesn't actually live here and no one else was booked, we have the entire home to ourselves! And it's gorgeous! And it was pretty cheap because we have to share the bathroom with other guests (which tonight, is NO ONE!). For dinner, we went to Harrogate town centre and ended up on an Italian restaurant road. There were like 10 Italian restaurants, it was hard to choose! My pumpkin ravioli with brown butter sage sauce was really, really good. Now we're enjoying our empty home and after two hikes, we're pretty tired!<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-5714512741171692492017-02-05T17:17:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:15:44.744-09:00Crisscrossing WalesEmail from June 20: <br />
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I’m typing this from the entryway of our Lake District house. We arrived here about 8:45pm and there is no answer at either of the bells, knocking, or calling any of the phone numbers. We did see some guests go in, but after going in with them and looking around and knocking on the owners’ door, the guests were nervous we weren’t supposed to be there and hinted that we should go back into the entryway. I’m sure all will be sorted out eventually, but until then, I will utilize the time to write the events of the day.<br />
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We set out this morning not entirely knowing where we were going. We knew we wanted to go to Devil’s Bridge and we knew we needed to make it up to the Lake District, and Roy had given us a few stretches of highway we should drive through Wales, so we spent the day zig-zagging through Wales. We passed Tintern Abbey, numerous castle ruins, and a lot of gorgeous rolling hills and sheep grazing. And in West Wales there were some pretty think evergreen forests. At times it felt like we were driving to the beach house or through Snoqualmie Pass. It was beautiful. We drove through Brecon Beacons national park and then over to Devil’s Bridge. Devil’s Bridge is an 11th century bridge that was built over a very steep crevice in the wall where the river runs through. That bridge is impressive enough, but they actually have built two more on top of it, one in the the 1700s, and the top one around 1900, and because it’s so steep, they never ripped up the old ones. It was a cool little area and the violent river has really carved down deeper in the rock under them.<br />
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From there we headed North again and stopped first at Powis Castle which was built in 1277 (around the same time as Caerphilly), but was inhabited until the early 1900s, so instead of being a ruins, it’s still a very stately home with all the furnishings and amazing manicured gardens. There were even a couple peacocks strutting around in the courtyard. It was a little treasure we walked into not knowing about it beforehand.<br />
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Then we stopped in Llangollen at the aquaduct we had originally planned to boat over and discovered we could actually walk across it. So we did. It was really cool and a few longboats crossed over it while we were there as well.<br />
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From there we decided to go straight to the house in Windermere so we wouldn’t get here too late. Alas, it seems we actually did (around 8:45pm).<br />
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I know you're all dying to know what happened. Well, around 9:45, I walked to the little hotel next door. She said that the people that run our little B&B are horrible (she called them "the gruesome twosome"), they cut off check in at 8:30, and they probably won't refund the money. She said it would be tough to find a room this time of night in the Lake District in the summertime, but she would call her friend who is the front desk person at a hotel down the road (she was full). He had a room available, and she talked him down in price so, although it's a bit more expensive than we've been paying everywhere else, we now have a lovely room with a private hot tub, spa bath, a pool, and a fancy breakfast in the morning. The guy here said our credit card may refund the money if they won't, so we'll try that. But if not, oh well. Stuff happens. And this place is lovely!<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-69910491469495114042017-02-03T14:21:00.001-09:002017-02-03T14:21:51.384-09:00Welsh Sunday DinnerEmail for June 19:<br />
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We made some toast and had some muesli for breakfast and then we popped off to Caerphilly for 9am Church. The meetings were good. I was shocked at how people had actually prepared for the lesson. They had a ward Facebook page where the information was shared for RS and Sunday school and they actually read the reading for the classes. They even talked about how the youth are doing assignments and following up by sharing at the beginning of class each week (if we could only get our youth to do that as well!). After the meetings, the Forwards caught up with all their old friends from the Caerphilly ward and Tom and I chatted with whomever approached, though Jenny and Sarah (her friend from last night) were pretty good to not leave us (even though we insisted we were fine on our own).<br />
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After about an hour, we followed the Forwards to Jan's house (Steve's sister that came with us yesterday). The whole family was there: Jan and Roy's son and daughter who each have a spouse and a son. Grand-dad was there and us and the Forwards. Jan made us a proper English Sunday roast dinner with pork, potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and roast vegetables with gravy poured over the whole of it (they serve the plates, you don't dish yourself... they just presented us with a completely piled plate) with mint sauce and applesauce for us to apply as desired. After finishing our large dinner, it was Teddy's first birthday (one of Jan and Roy's grandsons), so we ate chocolate cake with cream poured over it. Jan also served fruit salad and strawberry trifle, so we had to have those as well. After talking for a bit, the Rocky Road came out, which was sort of like a chocolate fudge with bits of biscuits and marshmallows and dried fruits and other things mixed in. It was really good. Moral of the story: we ate well and now we're stuffed.<br />
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We had a fabulous time talking to all of them. Jan was a nurse and was telling me all sorts of stories of her experiences. Then they all started talking politics. It was the most cordial, fact-based political discussion I've ever heard. Basically, it sounded as if they weren't sure whether to vote in or out of the EU this week, so they were going over the facts. It sounded as if they were leaning IN, but they're still not sure. The whole family is the nicest, greatest people. We had some great conversations about the gospel and the world and everything else. Jan pulled out our smoked salmon at this point for everyone to try. Joshua was the only kid that would try it ("it's not bad...it's a bit strange") but he went back for some more. Jan and Roy and Steve all quite enjoyed it as well as Grand-dad. Jenny said "I don't like fish, but this is actually alright." So there you have it.<br />
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We took pictures (Ethan took the picture of all of us so he's not in it and that's why it's pretty hilarious because he also never told anyone when he was going to take it) and said our farewells. Tom and I got back to Gwenno's just after 7pm. We've thrown our laundry in so we can hang it up tonight to dry before we leave in the morning, then it's off to the lake district tomorrow.<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-48959555514532900452017-01-31T16:49:00.001-09:002017-01-31T16:50:05.344-09:00St. Fagan's, CaerphillyEmail from June 18: <br />
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This morning we started with a lovely toast breakfast with Gwenno (our host) and then drove to St. Fagan’s Museum of Welsh Life to meet up with the Forward family (the family I stayed with 11 years ago). Jenny and Steve were there with their 6 (!) children: Isaac is now 17, then Josh, Jamie, Ethan, Leah, and Luke who is 4. Also there was Grand-dad (Steve’s dad who gave me tips on how to marry a Welshman last time I was here) and Steve’s sister and her husband (who told us: “Wales is God’s own country. It says so in the bible. ‘God created great whales.’ There's a spelling error but it's right there.”) and they brought one of Steve’s nephews (from a different sibling). We walked around St. Fagan’s for most of the day. There was apparently a Welsh museum strike because the workers used to get overtime on Saturdays and Sundays but they’re trying to take that away, so there was a strike today. Most of the museums were closed entirely. St. Fagans is an outdoor museum where they’ve taken historic buildings from all over Wales and put them all together in one big park. It was still open, but many of the buildings were closed. We did get to go into a couple of the houses and the blacksmith’s shop (he was hammering on some hot metal). It was lovely. Between Jenny and Steve’s sister, we had quite a picnic of fruit, sandwiches, pork pies, Scotch eggs, biscuits, crisps, and donuts.<br />
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Around 2pm we left St. Fagan’s and drove to Caerphilly. Caerphilly is honestly one of my favorite places ever. The giant castle and moat is right in the center of town. (We don't know what it's like to go to the grocery store or to Burger King and have a giant 11th century castle across the street.) It’s known for being one of the biggest castles in all of Europe, 2nd largest in UK, and having a leaning tower that’s leaning farther than the Leaning tower of Pisa. They’ve also added a cool dragon coming out of the ground in front of one of the gates. We didn’t pay to go in (it’s a ruins), but we walked around the entire thing. At this point, it was just Jenny and Steve and their kids. Then we went with them over to some old Caerphilly friends’ houses (Jenny and Steve live in Chorley now – where the Preston temple is – and poor Steve is Bishop again). The friends, Lee (now the bishop of Caerphilly ward) and Sarah I remembered from last time. They’d built a beautiful kit cabin out in their backyard as well as a mini football (soccer) green. So the kids played on the green and the adults played pool in the cabin and talked. We left their house around 7:30pm, got a recommendation for a good Indian place in Caerphilly (“You haven’t had a curry yet? Well then you’ll have to go there, haven’t you?”), and Tom and I were off to dinner.<br />
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At the Indian restaurant, the lady came over and asked “You want papadam?” We had no idea what that meant and the poor girl thought we couldn’t understand her accent, so she sent another guy over who said “Would you like Papadam?” Tom asked: “Is that a kind of bread?” His response was: “It’s Papadam.” We ordered two and realized we had had them before (they are like a big crisp shaped like a tortilla), but we had never known what they are called. It's what Indian restaurants serve before a meal the same way other restaurants serve bread. People here know their Indian food. And we clearly do not. The food was all quite delicious. We ate more than our fill and returned back to Gwenno’s around 10pm. Church in Caerphilly is at 9, so we best be off!TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-68901138579142617282017-01-29T22:45:00.001-09:002017-01-29T22:46:09.256-09:00Roman Baths, Cardiff Castle, Doctor Who ExperienceEmail from June 17: <br />
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The rain continues to be magical. When we come inside, it absolutely downpours and when we venture outside, it lets up and gets sunny again. We ate breakfast with our lovely host in Bath. She grows her own kefir and gave me some homeopathic remedy for my seasonal allergies. I'm not sure if it worked or if I'm just not as allergic in Wales... but either way, I've been better this afternoon. We said goodbye and walked down to the Roman Bath house and took the tour there, and drank the obligatory sample of the mineral-rich spring water. Then we grabbed a Cornish Pasty on the way out of town and drove to Cardiff.<br />
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On the way there we crossed the River Severn, which is the root of the name Sabrina.<br />
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We got to Cardiff and headed straight for the Castle. When I did my home stay in Caerphilly, I went to the ruins of the Caerphilly Castle. Only two other people were able to go to Wales for their home stay and they went to the Cardiff castle. We were sort of comparing notes and pictures and they said they had toured a castle and I said "me too" but then I<a href="http://looked.at/"> </a>looked at their pictures of Cardiff castle (which is giant, inside great walls with a big green, and very elaborately decorated inside) and realized my trip to the Caerphilly castle wasn't even close! Ever since then, I've wanted to tour the Cardiff Castle. There was a big joust happening for school groups on the green when we entered the gates, so we got to see the final sword fight and the champion taking his victory lap on his decorated joust horse at the end of the day. It was so festive! Then we toured the house part of the castle, the big Roman keep in the center, the walls that were turned into bomb shelters during the war, and walked through the big green. It was all spectacular.<br />
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From there we drove and then ran to the Doctor Who Experience (our tickets were for the 3:30 adventure and we parked at 3:25pm, but we made it!). We went through a very cheesy 30 minute adventure through Daleks and Weeping Angels and then were let free into the warehouse of props and costumes. We had a blast looking around.<br />
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It was pouring down rain when we finished, so we waited a minute, but
the museum was closing, so we headed out into it. Of course, after about
one minute outside, the sun come out and we walked through the Cardiff
town centre. We ate dinner at Wagamamas with a view of the town square
(Roald Dahl Plass). As we were eating dinner, a whole bunch of Porsches
started driving into the town square and lining themselves up. Not
really sure what event it was, but definitely a pretty good Porsche
parade. We walked back to our car and drove to our new home for the next
three nights just outside of town. We're staying with a lovely primary
school teacher named Gwenno. And her townhouse is the Welsh version of
ours and I love it.<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-33880789995073529692017-01-27T08:18:00.002-09:002017-01-27T08:18:27.262-09:00Stonehenge, Salisbury, StourheadEmail for June 16:<br />
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We ate a delicious breakfast of warm scones, yogurt, and fresh fruit at our Avebury AirBNB, served by the daughter at the house who just finished her A levels. Hilariously, we recognized her from the Red Lion pub last night. She was one of the people we asked to borrow a phone (to call her own house!). Small world. Or small village, rather.<br />
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Then we drove to Stonehenge. We got there 30 minutes after opening and managed to walk around the stones and get decent pictures before the deluge of people showed up. (Including the BYU Ballroom Dance Company!). They have a new visitor's center which was very nice and well done and they've re-routed the path to get us closer to the stones than the last time I was there ten years ago, so that was nice.<br />
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From Stonehenge, we drove to Salisbury. We have now seen two of the four original copies of the Magna Carta on this trip (the other one was in the British Library). Salisbury is also home to the oldest working clock, which is always a fun thing. Also, the lady we sat by at the Globe last week told us about the infinity font at Salisbury, and now we know what that is. I really liked walking around Salisbury. We stopped in at Poundland and bough some Jaffa Cakes, some Jammie Dodgers, and a selection of McVities biscuits. We ate some of those in the car on the way to Stourhead.<br />
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Again, today was a bit drizzly, but it didn't rain on us at Stonehenge and the hardest it rained all day was when we were inside the Stourhead house. When we got out to the gardens, it was drizzling which was perfect because we could walk around without getting too wet and there were fewer people. The gardens are just as beautiful as always. The swans were out, the rhododendron trees were in bloom and they were giant!<br />
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After seeing it all at Stourhead, we drove to Bath. The traffic in and out of Bath is ridiculous. And then we, sort of by accident, drove through the Town Centre which was all crazy narrow one-way streets (as most town centers), but on top of crazy streets, it was crowded! Several times we thought we were driving into pedestrian only areas, but we weren't. We finally parked just outside the main area and walked all around. The Baths had already closed (we'll do those in the morning), but we walked the streets, saw the Circus and the Royal Crescent. We ate dinner at a pizza and pie place - Tom got a butternut squash sweet potato pie and I got a jerk chicken pizza. Then we drove up to the place we're staying tonight. It's right up on the hill in Bath and our bedroom downstairs has a view of the abbey out the window. We'll try to Skype with the kiddos before going to bed (though it's hard to predict how fast the internet is and if it will work. I guess we'll see.)<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-89504812911093484172017-01-25T08:05:00.001-09:002017-01-25T08:07:15.928-09:00Leaving LondonEmail from June 15: <br />
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After breakfast at the hotel, we headed around the neighborhood. We went to the book shop around the corner and then walked down Portobello Road. I bought a skirt. We checked out of our hotel. It was a Doubletree. Did I mention their signature thing is cookies? They gave us warm, yummy, large chocolate chip cookies when we checked in, yesterday when we asked the front desk about something and then again today at check-out. Awesome. So, we ate our cookies as we walked to Paddington Station. We arrived just five minutes before our train was scheduled to leave, so we didn't get a picture of the Paddington station sign for the girls or find the statue of Paddington Bear that is apparently there. Though a large portion of the station was under renovation, so it may not have been accessible anyway.<br />
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The train out to Didcot was about 45 minutes long. I slept the whole way. We rented our car in Didcot and headed out on the road. Tom says driving on the left isn't very disorienting to him and that didn't take getting used to, oddly enough. But he did say the super narrow roads, and the speeds at which people drive on them, and navigating intersections are a bit tricky. But overall, he's doing really well and we drove all over today.<br />
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We started at the Uffington White Horse and Dragon Hill. The Uffington Horse is the oldest chalk drawing. In Neolithic times they would dig away the grass to expose the chalk underneath and draw pictures with it. We met a National Trust worker at the top of the hill by the horse. Because of the drizzle (and downpour right before we got out of our car), we were the only three up there. The horse is large and is sort of on top of the hill to face the Gods, he explained, so there isn't a way to see the whole thing at once unless you fly over it. From on the horse, however, you look down and get a great view of Dragon hill which is a perfectly round hill that's flat on top with a big chalk blob on the top. The legend is that the hill is where St. George fought the dragon and when he spilled the dragon's blood, it was so poisonous it burned the ground and nothing has grown there since. The guy said that while the horse requires a lot of upkeep to keep the grass from growing over it, the "burn mark" curiously requires a lot less. There was just a giant field of sheep to wlk through to get up to the horse and it had a gorgeous view over the farmlands surrounding it.<br />
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From the Uffington Horse we drove to Lacock and got there five minutes before the last admission to the abbey, so we ran around the amazing cloisters (Harry Potter film site) and then wandered around the grounds and the town.<br />
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Then we drove to Avebury which is just as picturesque. The standing stones are everywhere here. There is a giant stone circle that surrounds a big part of the town and then smaller ones off of that. We ate at the Red Lion pub which claims to be the only pub in the world that is in the center of a stone circle. We had fish and chips and Banoffee Pie (to compare to Tom's. Because Tom has been perfecting his recipe to my liking, his is now the perfect pie and is better than the one we had today). The food was good. The place we were staying was just around the corner, so we drove over there, but no one was home. So we had to come back to the pub and give them a call. They had taken the dog out for a walk and all was well, so we checked in. It's a lovely adorable house literally next to the stone circle. We dropped our stuff off and then walked around from about 8:30pm to 9:30pm until it was getting dark. We took pictures and hiked around the fields with stones.<br />
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Today was the first day in the UK I've had all the allergy symptoms at once (itchy eyes, post nasal drip, runny nose, and sneezes), so my eyes are exhausted.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-89603396677649301642017-01-22T19:57:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:18:02.831-09:00St. Paul's, Tower of LondonEmail for Jun 14:<br />
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Today was crazy. As it was the last day we're here in the city, we had to do so many things! After breakfast at the hotel, we headed straight to St. Paul's. Today was the day of stairs. We hiked up all the stairs in St. Paul's. We heard each other whisper in the whispering gallery and then kept climbing all the way to the top of the dome. Beautiful views up there. Too bad London is under construction. There were cranes blocking all the main icons in our view, but it was still beautiful.<br />
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We were going to walk to the Tower of London, but we got caught in an absolute downpour, so we rode a bus most of the way there. We got off a bit early to go see St. Dunstan in the East, which is a cathedral ruin they've turned into a park. It was beautiful (and rainy!).<br />
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Then we got into the Tower of London. Because of the rain, the Beefeater did a 20 minute talk in the chapel and then we walked around on our own. The rain passed as we were in the chapel, so it was pretty lovely while we walked around. We saw the crown jewels and the other towers. The Beefeater told a story about a Bishop who had levied major taxes and was later executed, and he said "We're opposed to Taxation without...." and some of us said "Representation" and he said: "I see we have some Americans here with us today. You probably haven't understood a word I've said. Americans are great at history right up until the time the Bible ends. Then there's a big black hole until 1776. What we're talking about is in that hole. If you want to learn history, learn it from a country that's established!" We also saw a female Beefeater, which I've never seen, so that was cool. There were school groups performing on a stage by the white tower. It was strange hearing "there's no Business like Show Business" as we're walking around this really old tower.<br />
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From the Tower, we took the tube to the British Museum. We were short on time, so we raced through a few of the galleries and hit the "top 10" that is included with the map.<br />
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Tom wanted to stop by the original Hard Rock Café and maybe get a T-shirt, so I decided we'd go eat there. It turned out to be super fortuitous today because today is the 45th anniversary of the opening of the London Hard Rock Cafe! So for tonight only, they served the original menu at the original prices. So we got a cheeseburger and club sandwich for 60p each. Desserts were 40p. So with dinner, dessert, drinks and tip, we were only out 12 pounds! (Tom felt better about buying a t-shirt because of that). We sort of feel like this whole trip so far has been like this. We've been so lucky. There's been tons of rain, but we've only had to be out in it for a few minutes and never when we're actually needing to do something outside. Also, we walked into the Hard Rock Café around 4pm completely unaware of the event. Then we saw the menu. We each ate our dinners and our desserts. Then, just when we finished our desserts, a lady showed up with plates of birthday cake on our table. It was hilarious. When we got out of the restaurant, there was a huge line waiting to get in.<br />
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From Hard Rock Café, we walked from the Southeast Corner of Hyde Park all the way back to our hotel on the Northwest Corner. We had to drop off our camera before heading to Harry Potter (no cameras allowed).<br />
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Something I forgot to mention after the first Harry Potter: They apparently used an owl in the first preview last week, but it got loose in the audience, so they weren't allowed to use them anymore. That would have been cool.<br />
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Part 2: This play was less magical than the first, though the wizarding duels were much more convincing than the first one. The story itself was better. JK Rowling said if you didn't cry, she questioned your humanity. I didn't cry because we felt like the finale could have gone further. I really expected it to get to the point of tears, but it ended before then. The story itself was satisfying. It redeemed itself after Part 1 being somewhat predictable. I was distracted by one of the main characters saying: "prophesized" and "undoubtably" - I'll have to see if those are the actual words in the script when it's published. Overall, it was really fun to be there and it was very entertaining and a great story. Also really fun to be there with Harry Potter fans that reacted MAJORLY every time something was mentioned or someone appeared. GASP. It was hilarious and fun. And everyone went crazy at curtain call. The cast came out three times to bow. Overall, my favorite characters/actors were Harry and Scorpius . That's where I bought myself a t-shirt. As Tom said: "To make everyone in the world jealous."<br />
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We got back around 11pm and walked down Queensway just so I could walk around my neighborhood one last time.<br />
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TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-8298492209704058212017-01-08T21:42:00.000-09:002017-01-08T21:43:44.011-09:00Harry Potter Film StudioEmail from June 13:<br />
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We managed to get out of the Travelodge early, underground to Euston station, and then a train to Watford. We each had about 3 Hobnobs for breakfast. We got to the WB studios around 9:40 and our tickets were for 10am, so we ate at the Café. We each got a Belgian waffle with bacon for less than 5 quid each! Then we were in the studios. We walked through all the sets, props, details we missed in the films, and had a really great time. It was fun to look in the shop windows on Dragon Alley, walk through Privet drive, and take a good solid look at each of the elaborate props created for the films.<br />
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Then we saw all the drawings, renderings, and whitecard models. We heard the guy in front of us turn the corner and yell "Oh ____!" (explitive). Around the corner was the full model of Hogwarts. It was pretty awesome.<br />
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We also enjoyed seeing all the animatronics (the Monster book of Monsters!), the costumes, and my favorite set was the Ministry of magic. Those fireplaces and offices were just as amazing in real life as they were in the film. Tom rode the night bus, we walked onto the Hogwarts Express (running through the 9 3/4 barrier, of course). It was all very cool.<br />
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From Euston station on the way back into London, we walked to the British Library to see their special collections. It was absolutely pouring down rain and in the 4 block walk, we got completely drenched. We were wearing our raincoats but shoes and trousers were quite wet. We only stayed in for less than an hour and when we left it was sunny again. We checked into our new hotel (Doubletree Hyde Park) literally a block away from the BYU London Centre, so it's fun to back in the home neighborhood.<br />
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At 5pm, we walked over to a big British Pub around the corner called the Churchill Arms. Hilariously, it was a Thai restaurant in an old English pub. We met up with my BYU friend Elizabeth who knew about the place. It was fun to meet up with her. She married a Brit three years ago and moved here. We had a great visit. And then we headed to Piccadilly Circus for our play for the night: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.<br />
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We've done great picking a great assortment of productions to see. They've all been completely different so you can't even compare them. Today's was a highly stylized choreographed play about a boy with autism navigating difficult situations he's facing. It was so compellingly done. It was fascinating and we enjoyed the experience.<br />
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Observations from London: I have seen only three Kebab places in all of London since being here and two of them are within a few blocks of the BYU London Centre! And everyone seems to vape. I keep thinking they're holding a pen or a car phone charger and then they smoke it.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-60743590438138957892016-12-12T23:15:00.001-09:002017-02-22T08:19:51.907-09:00V & A, Harrods, Tower BridgeEmail for June 12:<br />
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This morning we had breakfast at the hotel again and then headed to the Hyde Park Chapel. As the V&A Museum is literally next door, we started there. We walked through the museum until about 12:45 and then we popped over to sacrament meeting at 1. The Hyde Park chapel has added a little visitor’s center display about the history of the Church in England. After a lovely sacrament meeting (YSA with an American Bishop), we headed back to the V&A. We walked through the entire museum. When we’d finished, we walked down the street to Harrods.<br />
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I think if you’re going to walk into a store on Sunday, Harrods is clearly the one. We may have actually been taken somewhat seriously in our dress and tie. The food galleries are my favorite. We walked through those, the perfumerie and a few other rooms and then hopped back on the tube. We headed straight to the National Portrait Gallery and looked at everything there. Then we walked up to Leicester Square… the whole Theatreland area is my favorite.<br />
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We then took the tube to the Tower of London where we’re staying at the Travelodge tonight. After our previous three hotels, we feel like we’re staying in a hostel. But, it’s only one quick night so we’re close to the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower tonight and then we’re off to Watford tomorrow for the Harry Potter Studio tour in the morning. It’s been raining on and off all day but we’ve been mostly inside so it’s been alright.<br />
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We got dinner at a Tesco around the corner and we ate it in our room watching British telly. At 9pm, we walked down the road to the Tower of London. At 9:30, our Yeoman Warder met up with us at the gate and let us in. He told us stories and led us around until 9:50. At that point, the official ceremony of the keys started. They have to do the whole thing in such precise time that everything has been said and everyone is in the right place when the clock tower chimes ten and then the guard is released to their barracks. 50 people or more live inside the tower. Most of them live in quarters on the building just inside the gates, but a few people live in some of the more inner towers including Lord so and so (don’t remember his name) who is the Constable of the Tower. We saw the lights on. Once we left the tower, we saw the TV shining in a different window. Our warder was awesome, as they all are and it was a great thing to do. Then we walked around to Tower Bridge to walk under it and see it all lit up from the area around the tower. And now we’re eating Galaxy Ripple bars and Hob Nobs and watching yet another tribute to the Queen’s 90th birthday.<br />
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Today was simply glorious! We got up early, ate a yummy free breakfast at our hotel, and walked a block away to the Mall (the street between the arch and Buckingham palace, which of course rhymes with pal or shall) for Trooping the Colour. We got there around 8:15am and we got a place right up front. We ended up next to these two adorable old ladies that took a coach in from Birmingham and a lovely gentleman from Edinburgh named Peter.<br />
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The celebrations started around 10am. The amazing bands came down the mall (The Irish troops played bagpipes). There was a band and a regiment for each of the five home guards. There were also guards who lined the street. It was interesting watching the guards along the street. They stood rigidly the way we're used to seeing palace guards stand. But every so often we would see one march over to another and they would stand face to face, then one would grab on to another's hat. The ladies were explaining that the sergeants would do that to relieve their troops--they would grab the hat to take the weight off their heads for a minute. We even saw the sergeants put something into the guards' mouths sometimes, and we saw them joking around and smiling, while still standing rigidly and at attention. The police also lined the street, but they were much more relaxed than the guards. <br />
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We then saw saw the Royal Family go past in horse-drawn carriages. Camilla, Harry and Kate were in the first one, followed by two other carriages with other royals we didn't recognize. Then came the horsegaurds (hundreds of them!) followed by the Queen's carriage with her and Prince Philip (whose birthday was yesterday and he turned 95!). We were so close to both of them! Right behind them were Charles, Princess Ann, and William - all in full military garb (hard to see William and Charles' faces because of the big shaggy hats called Busbies or Bearskin).<br />
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Then, once all the troops and royals had passed, we had to wait another hour (they go to horseguards, near Whitehall, where the stands are and the Queen inspects them). Around 12:15, they all over back down the Mall toward the palace. At this point, the ladies had gone and we were just there with Peter. Once everyone passed again (we got great pictures!), we headed toward the palace with Peter. As we walked down the mall, we heard the 41 gun salute in Green Park to our right.<br />
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At 1pm, all the Royals came out on the balcony for the flyovers. Peter, who has a big interest in military, told us all about the Spittfire and some other ones. There were a dozen or more planes that flew over in different groups, including several vintage planes from both world wars. Then the final flyover was a group of fighter planes in formation with red white and blue jet streams that flew right over the palace. It was awesome. The whole day could not have been planned better. We saw the crowd that was in the stands. It's probably good we didn't get tickets as they were all decked out in hats, top hats, tails, and canes and umbrellas! Everything was timed exactly, super pomp and breathtaking. As Peter said: "That's one thing our country can still do really well." It's true. It was insanely marvelous.<br />
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When all was said and done, it was around 2pm. We walked back to the hotel and watched first the news and then a special on the monarchy and Buckingham Palace. Tomorrow there is a giant picnic down the mall for the birthday celebrations. The whole road will be inaccessible and representatives of the 600 charities the Queen supports will be invited. Marks and Spencer put together a very posh picnic basket for each attendee.<br />
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We left the hotel around 4:30 for dinner. We ate at a salad place called Tossed on the way to the theatre and then walked around Theatreland for awhile before getting in the queue to get into Harry Potter. The queue wrapped around the entire block more than an hour before curtain! It was crazy. The girl wearing a Marauder's Map dress wins my favorite outfit.<br />
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Harry Potter Part 1 review: I will follow J. K Rowling's request to #KeepTheSecrets, but here are the things I feel I can say: The play opens at the train station with the same scene where the book ends. And the moment they all run through the barricade, everyone on stage spun once and were immediately in their Hogwarts robes. And the play continued to amaze. The staging of the magic was fantastic. The Crowd was hot and gasped, clapped, and cackled appropriately. Everyone is amazing, though I'm not a huge fan on the guy who plays Draco. He seems too confident, large, and gruff for the little whiny character we're used to. Harry is just as brash as always and so is his son. The story is really about Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter. Lupin's son is never mentioned, which I found surprising. The magic was great, as mentioned, but the actual wizarding duals ended up a bit hokey, which was actually really surprising because none of the other effects seemed hokey at all. I also cannot imagine only getting tickets to Part 1. It obviously ended on a big cliff hanger and there wasn't even a curtain call. The lights just went up. And even though you sort of knew where the story was headed and you were totally interested in it getting there, when it did, it was kind of disappointing... so I'm excited to see Part 2. The play is staged on a giant rotating stage which helped with the amazing choreography of scenes. It really was magical.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-37191744205915819652016-11-27T21:51:00.001-09:002017-02-22T08:22:11.420-09:00Westminster, Tate, TrafalgarEmail for June 10: <br />
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We got ourselves up and ready to be at Marks & Spencer when it opened at 9 to pick up some yummy warm ham and cheese croissants and fresh orange juice. We hopped the tube and were at Westminster Abbey by the time it opened at 9:30. I think Rick Steves told everyone to get there at opening, but it was actually probably not a great choice because we had to wait in a big long line for 15 or 20 minutes. We took the audio tour of the Abbey. Tom's favorite part was the lady chapel because it was lighter and more ornate than the rest of the abbey. I love the Poet's Corner, as always. Also, we saw Britain's oldest door! :)<br />
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After the Abbey, we walked down to the Tate Britain. Today we found a painting for my dad (attached). I call it "The Retired Dentist."<br />
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We did the loop and we think we saw everything. The most interesting display was called "historical dances in an antique setting." Three dancers are employed full time to dance around this old façade in the atrium as people walked by and through. It was fascinating. The installation sign had about 12 dancers listed, but it's amazing that 3 of them are dancing any time the Tate Britain is open.<br />
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We took the tube back to the Churchill hotel and checked out (at 2pm because we're awesome platinum members). We walked a block over and ate lunch at Wagamama's. Mmmm. So good. As good as I remember. We need one of those in Anchorage. I think they're currently only in Boston. We had squid for an appetizer, I got the Wagamama ramen and Tom got the ginger chicken with the biggest noodles we'd ever seen.<br />
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Back on the tube with our backpacks to Trafalgar Square. We checked in, got free drink vouchers, free breakfast, and found another yummy anniversary treat on our room (always tell hotels you're celebrating, it turns out!).<br />
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We're right in Trafalgar Square. Great hotel location. So we walked next door to the National Gallery again. Our favorite this time was Canaletto... really detailed Italian paintings. They got me excited for all of you to go to Italy!<br />
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Tonight's play was "the Play that Goes Wrong." Review: It was a super fun and funny, physical, farcical murder mystery. We had a riotous good time. The physical abilities of those actors was unreal! And we got to walk through Theatreland after the show on the way back. I love this area of town. And they've completely redone Covent Garden! I hardly recognized it!TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5656698334495758956.post-38667988259685736392016-11-23T11:31:00.000-09:002017-02-22T08:23:48.300-09:00Churchill War Rooms, Cafe in the Crypt, London Eye<div style="text-align: center;">
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It is Thursday, isn't it? Boy we're confused. After waking up to housekeeping at 10:30am, we pulled ourselves together, grabbed an apple from our dessert spread last night, and headed back to Westminster. We spent the afternoon at the Churchill War Rooms. They had added a whole Churchill museum since I had been there last. It took a few hours to get through it all, but it was all very well done.<br />
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We walked from there to the mall and then over to Trafalgar Square. We wandered into the National Gallery and got lost (both literally and figuratively) in 17th Century Italy (we also found a great image of tax-collectors... take note, Ted or you could end up like them!).<br />
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After the Crypt, we walked back over to Westminster and hopped on the London Eye and took loads of pictures. <br />
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From there we wandered around, hopped a bus back to Trafalgar Square, and then walked up to the Cambridge Theatre to see Matilda. <br />
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Review of Matilda: I think the show took a bit to warm up. 80% of our audience was made up of children from schools. This musical was clearly one that was made for children. The music is fun and clever, but not super memorable. The set was also clever. Ms. Trunchbull was a man dressed as a large woman (a great choice for a play made for children to take the scariness out of the character... and that character was quite scary). The book is simple. The musical did a great job of adding magical themes and meaningful add-ons to the story. I'm glad the audience was mostly children. It was a fabulous, sweet, and magical musical and the girls would have loved it.TStockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07851800772854173266noreply@blogger.com0