Lots of company

Finally Amy Faber emailed me today to demand an update to the blog...and ask what happened to the pictures. Amy, this update's for you.

We've been busy with visitors for the last few weeks. The day after Brian left Kevin and Katie Davis from Hitachi spent the night here on their return to Seattle from France. The next day my Mom and her friend Linda arrived.

We had a great visit with them including a big tour of our favorite spots in London. They learned how to use the Nespresso maker, ate shwarmas, went to the flower market, saw a play, rode the big bus around london...ate more...walked more. One of the highlights was dropping in on a little Yemeni place for dinner. You may be surprised, but that was my first Yemeni restuarant experience. The other surprise was that Erin, Ma and Linda were the only three women in the entire restaurant that was packed with Yemeni's. Linda coined it "No Womeni, Yemeni" (which sounds funny if you say it quickly). It was really great to have them here. Always great to get a little dose of home and make sure your mother knows where you live.

Not long after all of them left, Erin's dad Dick arrived in London. He arrived on Thursday last week. The highlight of the trip so far was that we all went and saw Spamalot on Saturday. For those of you who don't know, it is based on Monty Python's Holy Grail. It was fantastic from start to finish. The star of the show was Tim Curry (of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame). See it if you get the chance.

The next big adventure is this weekend when the three of us get on a 6:05am flight (from Stansted; a couple of hours by tube and train away) to Berlin. I can't wait, I've wanted to go to Berlin for a long time. It will be fun to have Dick along too who hasn't been to Berlin since 1959...I bet it's changed...

We're now planning our next big adventure as well. November's big trip is going to be to Iceland! I know what you're thinking, "Iceland in November?" Reykjavik is actually home to countless hot springs and spas. We see it as a restful place to relax, eat and drink... Admit it, it sounds nice. Here is a link to the Blue Lagoon which convinced us to go.

As you can see, I've also updated the photos. I hope you like. If you read all this, drop me a line, or add a comment. It's fun to know who's reading. I do have a site tracker and can see the city of people visiting and how they found the page. The best so far was someone who googled "Kirsten Nesholm" and found our page. Kirsten, you have a stalker!!

Look forward to talking more soon,

Ted