London Weekend Four / Mike and Lauren 1

Hey kids! How are you all doing? Things this week have been busy as usual. I thought there was a glimmer of hope that I might get out on time yesterday but it didn't happen and I worked till 9pm instead. Oh well.

This past weekend was alot of fun. Mike McAtee (from Lancaster and now lives in Chicago) and his girlfriend Lauren came in Thursday. We have gone out to eat alot which is a fun treat. But not when I looked at my bank statement. Our meal that I put on my debit card was £42 came out to be over $86 on my account. YIKES! I am still trying to get used to that.

Saturday we got going and when down to the Imperial War museum. Nice big museum that lots and lots of stuff. Almost all museums are free and you just have to pay to get into any special exhibitions they maybe having. So the war stuff was kinda boring but they had a 2 floor Holocaust exhibit that was pretty powerful. And then on the top floor there was a Crimes Against Humanity exhibit but we were too depressed from the Holocaust to go to that one. Maybe another day. So we had dinner and Mike/Lauren had tickets to a play. I went home, relaxed and watched the "tellie".

Sunday we got up a little earlier and went to Greenwich (pronounced Gren-itch). It was a cute cute little town right on the other side of the river. Sooooooo cute! It was like a little Cape Cod or something similar. We went to the Observatory, it's where the 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude meet. It was actually really good and very pretty. We then went to the Maritime museum which was possibly the worst museum ever. It was about ships and boats and nothing interesting. I discovered that I only found the ships that sink to be interesting. But anyway, cute town, would definitely go back. After Greenwich we went to Camden Market and Lauren bought a bunch of souvenirs.

So that was my weekend! Mike/Lauren left Monday to go to Amsterdam and will be back today. They are here all weekend so we will have fun times again I am sure.

On the family front: Chloe has been super super sick this week, puking 9 times at my parents house...Yucky! But she was feeling better yesterday. Kari and Jarrod are good and we booked our trip to Paris while they are here so that is exciting. Still trying to find someplace cool to go to when Mat comes in mid-April. Time is ticking and I really need to get going on it. I was thinking Prague because I have heard AMAZING things about it but it recently flooded and when I brought pictures in yesterday, it didn't look good! Oh well, I will find something.

To see pictures go to http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=172lev31.7zobjach&x=1&y=-mrvm0