Part deux

On Sunday (June 22nd) we jumped on the train for a ride through the Chunnel

1st stop on Monday, the Eiffel Tower

 Larry made us walk up to the 2nd platform!!  669 steps!!  Props to Nancy who was suffering from a cold!

 Climbed to the top of the Arc de Triomphe

And the top of Notre-Dame

Saw Mona

Visited Versailles

London to Paris (Part Un)

Nancy and Mike left for London on the 18th and we joined them on the 20th.

Straight from the train to a before-dinner cocktail

Saturday at Windsor (finally found a castle with walls and a roof!)

The Queen is in 

 Gathering ideas for Humber Lodge garden

Out and about

 On Monday we went to York and I was so excited to see that they are setting up for this year's Tour de France!  Can't wait to be a part of it!!

Larry's famous meat and cheese dinner

Yesterday I finally got my Fitbit set up so had to try it out on the Humber Bridge

We ended the day at the very-decorated-for-the-World-Cup pub

Next up London!!

Weekend Wrap Up

Look who we picked up alongside the road!!

It's the Dales from Glasgow, Montana

The boys wanted to admire gardens around the village

 Scarborough

And Whitby

So excited to have them here, have lots planned!  Can't wait!!

TGIF!!

I can't believe how fast this week went by!  We were super busy inside and outside the house!

I asked John the gardener to remove all the ivy off this  pillar.  "Can't be done, that's the only thing holding it up."  Well, as soon as he said, "can't be done" I was determined to get it off.

I did it all by myself!!  

I left the top for him!

 Before...

After

Weekend wrap up

It poured rain on Saturday but we were still able to get a lot accomplished.  Congrats to Larry for passing his driver's theory test in the morning!  Especially since he only started studying on Thursday night.  Next up is the driving test, sometime in the future.  Went to the butcher for our weekly meat supply. He pulled Larry close to ask him for "his Mum's meatloaf recipe".  Pretty funny but why didn't he want my recipe?!!

Sunday was P66 Bike Club ride day.  If was a beautiful day even though I got my booty seriously whipped!  After 44 hill-packed miles, I'm on painkillers!

Yard crashers episode 1:

He broke down and bought a "lawn mower".

John even showed up, here's before

And after

It's coming along!  But soooo much more is left!!

The British Army has arrived!!

Not quite thee army but it is John (18 years in the British Army, he never fails to bring up in every conversation) and Pete.  There are waaayyyy too many stories to post, let's leave it at they are VERY colorful lads!

John lost all of his electrical equipment  and lawnmower in last year's flood.  IF we buy a lawnmower and the petrol, he'll mow our grass as well.  Hmmmm... probably not going to happen.  If we buy a lawnmower, we'll mow it ourselves!

So far, the only bone found.  Hoping it's from a cow

I really hope we don't need more than one of these