Prince Of Wales Winchester

... the infamous round table with all the knights names and apparently a pic of King Henry?? I need to check that one and update this entry.

Pete made it without an issue and it was a lovely day for driving as well. I looked around the shops and had lunch in the Cathedral shop and of course took some pictures and read about some of the history or Wincester!

The title is the most awful joke in the world so blame my sisters for thinking of that and keeping it in my head!

OK so tomorrow is my big day. No im not getting married, im going away to India....to travel. As you guys already know (because i haven't stopped talking about it since April!) im starting off in Goa for 3 months doing a project teaching kids on a ...

... Michael's Church to help us sort and pack the boxes. You are all stars...

We can't wait to start seeing the smiling faces of people receiving your shoeboxes and we promise to keep you up to date with where we are, who we meet and the reaction your gifts receive.

Check back on Monday when the Trussell team will reach Bulgaria and start distributing your shoeboxes to men, women and children living in poverty...

... Room parties
- People using the bus aisle as a bed to lie down on and sleep!
- Certain people constantly getting out of their seat to hang around the bus aisle or toilet entrance, or even just to prance up and down in front of everyone. Seriously, the bus is cramped enough as it is, just sit in your damn seat and stop making it worse for everyone!
- One personīs laugh, voice, behaviour etc - you all know who I am talking about! Heīs lucky he didnīt get ...

... Q and cooking an Indian Feast for dinner!

Jo and I cooked up a storm, with pilau rice, rogan josh, korma, naan bread, samosas, bajhiīs etc. as Andy Collins and Bec and Andy Wilson were coming over for our last night in England.

We stayed up pretty late playing Buzz Music Quiz (no Mat, you still canīt beat me!). The girls all went to bed, but the boys stayed up until around 4am! Needless to ...

Booked flight today - Guatemala on Feb 22nd 2010. So to mark the occasion I thought I'd start my travel diary today as well.

Two months to go - and a lot of list-making, planning, shopping, getting vaccinated, freaking out, and bouncing with excitement to do!

... chatted the whole way about crazy Europeans! I arrived in London quite late in the evening and headed via Tube to cousin Kirsten's apartment in Putney. I haven't seen her in 3 years, so it was really great to catch up a little, but since she was leaving for Scotland early Thursday morning, we saved most fo the chatting for next week.

Thursday I headed into London to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and after a few hours there, I wandered into London itself. I didn't have a lot ...

... it's all mine) and call David before falling asleep. I don't recall it taking so long to adjust to traveling in the past, but there it is. Dinner is at Dim T, an Asian dim sum place where we all drink awful wine, eat delicious noodles, and laugh at the astonishing spelling errors on our chop stick wrappers (tnunb? really? You sure you don't mean tHuMb?). The rest of the evening is spent at The Black Boy pub, which quickly becomes one of my favourite pubs ever. It's old in the ...

... courses were loads of fun- and I finally got some monitoring of the reef in too! Really wish I could have stayed for some more! The cavern diving was totally awe-inspiring; we drove to a cenote near Tulum called Dos Ojos (Two Eyes) and did 3 dives following different lines through the caverns- all of them were so stunning I spent my whole time just looking around me in complete awe! Nearly forgot to breathe... The viz was endless and it gave you ...

... place, Summer fell asleep in the stroller. But she was sitting up. It was SOOO cute! She looked like a bobble head. lol. After getting back to her place, Deanna and Steven left to come home. Eric, Joanne, Summer and I all went for a walk. Our walk took us past fields of horses. We had bought carrots before our walk to give to the horses. At first, Summer was scared of the horses, but eventually, we had her giggling and petting one ...