England - Family

We visited my Grandpa's grave in Lane End and my mom and Uncle planted some flowers near it. My Grandpa would love that.

The old church in Lane End...

I just wanted to take these so I had them to look back on.

Then we finally met Matthew in Thame at Costa of course! Duckie!!

I had to go next door and get a sausage roll from Newitt's / they have excellent sausage rolls so I had to put it on twitter. 

Then we went to Rumsey's / their chocolate is the best ever! We had hot chocolate after coffee at Costa...haha.

Duckies...

Then Matthew took us to my cousin Sarah's house in Wendover...a super cute little town! We went to another Rumsey's for tea...and chatted about life. Lovely!

We just wished Michelle had come with us!! Next time Duckie!

My sweet cousin Sarah put on a wonderful English tea for the whole family, it was lovely!! Thank you so much Sarah for doing that!! Duckie...

Sarah's girls with their Grandpa...

Uncle Matthew, we love you! They look so happy, don't they?!

Melissa with Jess, she's so good with children!! 

Organizing a family photo...quick go outside while it's not raining!

Thanks to Melissa's selfie stick...we all got to be in the picture. Awesome!

Bye bye Duckies, thank you so much for having us over. Love you!

I am so pleased that my mum got to visit with her mum so many times, and her borther! What wonderful memories that were made.

England - Oxford

I really really really wanted to see Oxford while we were there, it was actually rally close to where we were staying. We took a bus in because the traffic in is horrible.

My Uncle did go with us but didn't last very long because we looked like tourists!! Haha! 

Oh look, a gross red phone booth...I couldn't go inside the smell was awful.

A very good 'tourist' shop in Oxford...loved it! I got Alyssa's hat here...maybe that will help her to think about going to school in Oxford??

Most of the campuses were closed...but the buildings were so neat just to look at.

Taking pics...

I just have something for the doors in England, they are so different from America. Plus anything in Oxford is really old, ugh...love it.

This bike has flowers in it...so pretty.

Which way are we going then?? High Street.

I literally thought I would see Harry Potter and his school mates walk out of here...they probably did I just missed seeing them.

I just love the buildings too.

I saw this little pink building and thought right away of McKindree!!

Lots of bikes...definitely cheaper than gas, or petroul as they call it.

Radcliff Square was really neat...I think it's a library now. You had to have a pass to get in, darn it.

Imagine going to school there...how different.

We went into this old church...

The stained glass is beautiful!

We each lighted a candle...one for Harv  in Heaven and one for Mia to be healed.

Time for some tea!! This place is right in the church...it's beautiful so we sat outside.

Lots of pretty flowers everywhere...

Let's have a spot of tea Duckie!!

Tea and scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam...yes please!

I would never get tired of that! We caught the bus back to Dinton...where myUncle picked us up in time for a lovely pub dinner.

We went back to the Old Fisher Man Pub for some Fish N Fizz.

Yes, it was as good as it looks!!! Fish in England is the best, maybe Seattle too.

England - London

We are after all in England, so we did decide to go to London for 1 day...since we were there. Yes! We took the train from Haddenham to London and caught one of those red bus tours. Does that mean we are tourists now??

Yes, we are the only people up top because it started to rain...as soon as we sat down, Oh my goodness it was freezing but we had the best time just looking at everything.

Mum, do you have a brolley?? It's raining.

The rain doesn't stop us though!

I must say the traffic in London is horrible...lol

They put a new piece of art up there every 2 months or so...

Trafalgar square...very popular spot for tourists. If you feed the pigeons you get fined a ton of money...so no pigeons were there, usually there are hundreds of them.

I think the tour said, the only lion laying down...because the artist used his dogs body and put a lions head on it, or something like that. Interesting.

Typical day in London - I love this photo!

Oh the red buses are everywhere...

We've never done the London eye...I've heard at night it's wonderful.

Does it look cold?? Because it is...very!

Ohhh I love this one too...

Cold and grey...

We found a Starbucks by the Tower of London...well, we went there last time, and plus I knew they'd have wifi...soooooo, yeah. I tried to meet up with my cousin Matt but we were on the other side...darn it! Next time!

Every where I go I seem to find a Starbucks...haha. The sun came out just for a quick second.

See the big lions den down that hole...scary!

The Tower of London...

The big building is called the Shard, it's very high up...I'll have to do that next time too. I bet the view is amazing.

One thing we didn't do was take the under ground train...but we did do that five years ago when my sister came with us!

Big Ben is actually the bell in the clock tower...

I love the River Thames, it flows right through London...you must see it with your own eyes!