Hello America!

July 10^th-August 04^th 2013

These past few weeks have been amazing seeing all our friends and family in America. We have done so much to get ready for our wedding but also spent lots of time with our loved ones. We have been to the lake, swimming in the pool, enjoying bon fires, playing with the dogs, seeing Taughannock Falls and trekking up Buttermilk Falls. It has been so nice enjoying America and all the people here, but also very, very busy getting everything ready for our wonderful wedding in a few weeks.

Until next time,

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Goodbye England

July 1-10, 2013

This week Heavens and I ventured up to London to visit with and say goodbye to her family before heading to America to get married! We stopped off at Tammy’s house to drop off our things and then made our way to Ipswich to see Laura, Louis, baby Charlie and of course Boo! We spent a few days playing with baby Charlie, taking him and Boo for walks, playing in the ball pit, and our favourite- seeing him in his superman cap!!!! How cute! We gave him a bath and got woken up super early to watch Postman Pat! It was lovely! Then we went back to Tammy’s house to see her, Todd, and Olive. We spent time playing outside with Olive, reading her books, and watching Octonauts! Then she helped us decorate the house for our American Themed Pre-Wedding Party! On Saturday the whole family met up at a pub in Chelmsford called the Black Bull, with some amazing staff, we set up and decorated our closed off room. Lots of family and friends turned up and we had a wonderful time, chatting, eating, drinking, and of course hearing some wonderful…and also embarrassing speeches!! It was so lovely! Next we ventured into London to meet up with a few friends. We met Clare for our traditional Japanese lunch and then met Brandy and Jemma for some tennis and drinks in an awesome pub. We even witnessed Murray win Wimbledon, the first Englishman in 75 years to win it! Then we ate dinner with Brandy at Chiquitos! Next we headed to Tim’s house to spend some time with him, Larissa, and baby Amelie. We even got to take Amelie out for a day in London!!! We took a nice long walk by the London Eye, down the Thames, played in some sand, took a boat ride, got some ice cream, and headed back. We spent our last day in England at Richmond Park enjoying the sun shine, eating lunch and ice cream, and playing with Amelie. It was time to say goodbye for now, but it was an amazing week filled with laughter, love, family, and friends. A great way to say goodbye for now to England.

Until next time,

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Exmouth

May 30, 2013

Today Heavens and I decided to go to Exmouth for the day. We got into town and walked along the beach to the water taxi. We took the little water taxi to the River Exe Café which is a floating barge in the middle of the river that is a restaurant. It is really cute with wooden tables and blankets in case you are cold. We had a window seat so we could see out onto the water and had some amazing food for lunch. We both got the fish and it was the best fish I have ever eaten. It was amazing. Then we took the water taxi back to land, along the way seeing a seal! We walked into town and saw the festival that was going on, most random festival ever. There was a cute little garden area with toys for all the little kids to play with and mums everywhere then next to it was a stage with punk rockers screaming their heads off. It was hilarious! We walked through town a bit then off to meet with some people for a surprise……J Then subway for dinner and back home to relax. It was a lovely day with my girl and we had the most amazing lunch. Exmouth was beautiful!

Until next time,

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GO APE!

May 16, 2013

Today was Hess’s birthday so Kate, Katie and I decided to take her to GO APE! This was a very big thing for me as I’m scared of heights to begin with and I was voluntarily, even paying, to climb up very big trees and walk over bridges, bits of wood, rope and god knows what else before zip lining to the bottom! We learned how to use our harness; the instructors don’t go with you!! They show you how to use it and let you go! It was very scary and the first course I was not very happy having to lean out over the ledge to grab my clip then jumping and swinging into a rope! However, that was the only time I had to do that and as the courses went on they seemed to get a little easier…at least with my fears they did. My favourite part was the net that surrounded you and you just walked through lol. Perfect for me! We had 5 courses to complete, each one with about 4-5 different types of ways to get across, some you had to do and some were choices and then a zip line to end it. That was how you got back down on the ground. We eventually mastered the approach of swinging your legs in the air like an idiot to make sure you landed feet first, although we took a few spills along the way getting sawdust in every crevice. Overall it was a good day and at the end we got certificates to certify that we officially went APE!

Until next time,

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