Long Time

April 18th marked 6 months that we have been married....and to think we're still on our honeymoon!!! HA!

I love love.

Mare & I conquer England

I suppose it's possible that Mary & I could have squeezed in a little more sightseeing & a little more visiting in the 5 days she was in England but I definitely know that neither of us would be alive to tell the tale. We had an absolute blast - I showed her the sights on Walney & Barrow, we went to a nearby Castle, took the train to London for the night & then spent a night in Manchester. Going into detail of our visit could take me awhile so Mare & I documented our time together pretty well with pics....(more pics in our photo album --> )

Mare & I at Walney Point

Reminiscing with a few games of Rummy

Made it to London!!

Cab ride back to the hotel in Manchester - visits almost over :(

Captain One Match & Lil Mrs. Muddy Boots

We're baaaack! Had to make the trek back a day early - we ran out of fuel for our stove and so when we ate our last bag of doritos we had no food left that didn't require cooking.

The recap of Fisherground Campsite:

Friday - White knuckle drive. Found the perfect little plot of land to set up shop. Pulled out the foldy chairs, poured a Guiness, cooked beans & dogs, climbed in the tent to wait out the rain shower, played games in the tent while it rained, cooked more beans, rice & dogs, poured more Guiness, Captain One Match made a fire (with one match), slept.

Saturday - Awoke to sheep baa'ing in the neighboring fields, made coffee, eggs & bacon, started our trek up the mountain, wandered up & down mountains, found our selves in a giant, enclosed field with 3 wild pigs, were chased by the 3 wild pigs, had to jump over a stone wall to escape the 3 wild pigs, went back to camp, took a little steam train to a nearby town, had lunch at a pub, made it back to camp, basked/napped in the sunshine, cooked rice & soup, Captain One Match had some Jameson & lil Mrs. Muddy Boots made campfire cosmos.....

Sunday - Awoke too a million items of nature making a ton of noises (sheep, horses, birds, bugs, kids...), realized that we had no more fuel or firewood, ate pieces of bread for breakfast, ate doritos for lunch, laid in the sunshine, decided that we wouldn't be able to survive an evening without food we packed up.

And thats it! Back at home - Kevin has off tomorrow & we must get ready for our first visitor :)

more pics of our weekend in the wilderness in our photo album

Weekend in the wilderness

We've decided to venture outside of solid roof and savory meals and go for a weekend in the woods. A couple of weeks ago we bought a cheapy tent - (turns out £20 goes a long way, looks like it might be pretty decent) we'll see if it keeps the bears and the rain out...and a guy that Kevin works with is letting us borrow a few other necessary camping items. We plan to leave either Thursday evening or Friday morning and return either Sunday or Monday - all is dependent on weather. Yesterday they were calling for rain all weekend but then today it's changed back to being dry?! Anywhooo...the campsite is in the Lakes District so there will be plenty of hikes to do - one in particular we want to conquer - Scafell Pike, Englands highest mountain. Bring on the rice, beans and smore makin'.

The Gadget show last night had two free websites that are pretty neat:

• Spotify.com (similar to Pandora but it's world wide...right now Pandora isn't available in the UK)


• Sumopaint.com (paint on steriods...I made the above pic there. Has some pretty neat features)

Fun times a'comin!

My Mare-Mare is coming to visit!!! WhoopWhoop! A whole week :) Must start planning 7 days-o-fun. April 13th-20th.

YAY!

Things that make you go hmmmm...

Yesterday we went grocery shopping and, among other things, got a box of Shredded Wheat cereal. I just recently rearranged the cupboards, but Kevin put the new box of cereal in the cupboard alongside the nearly empty old box of cereal. I saw the two boxes in the the cupboard yesterday...I swear I did.

This morning we went to pour a bowl of cereal finishing the old box of cereal first then reaching for the new box. GASP! It's not there!!! I have searched everywhere for it, all the cupboards, the refrigerator, bathrooms...everywhere - I can't find it. Strange.... Is there some hobbit in the spare room, crouched in the corner munching on Shredded Wheat? Unlikely - I already checked the spare room.

In other news - we finally booked our hotel room for Barcelona at the end of April and also booked our hotel for London in May when Andrea, Tim & Olivia visit :)

Tomorrow we plan to travel to Carlisle to see some sights - stay tuned for pics.

Update on some words...

Realizing that no one probably goes back to the first couple blogs where I started this list I figured I would continue with it here. Unfortunately, whenever I go to make this list I can't think of half the words I wanted write... or is it because sentences like "there was a queue at the till and all that I had in my trolly were nappies & biscuits" are all sounding a bit normal now??

• Lorry - Truck (18 wheeler)
• Row - argument/fight
• Coach - Bus
• Queue - Line
• Bin - Trash Can
• Gutted - Sad, upset
• Snog - make out
• Nappies - Diapers
• Crisps - Potato Chips
• Chips - Fries
• Biscuits - Cookies

Annnnd as an added bonus a couple of you luckies will be receiving in the mail not only the above featured crisps but a few other fantastic flavors! Aren't you excited!?!!