The White Hart Hotel Welwyn Garden City

... i couldn't feel my legs they were like ice. Then jumped into our togs and headed to the pool for some laps... and some water aerobics :-) This morning we had all senior boys games kit to put away in the change rooms, the smell in there is horrible a mixture of sweat, grass and mud.... GROSS!!!!! To make time go faster and to make us less bored the ipod speakers are plugged in and we dance around as we put the ...

... Museum <br><br><br><br>As you can probably guess, I'm quite a fan of Winston Churchill, and I recently read a biography of the Noble Prize recipient (for Literature!). Deutsch and I went to the Imperial War Rooms, the bunker where he and his staff were based during the Blitz / Battle of Britain, designed to protect him from bombs. But we were informed that were the building on top of the bunker hit by a bomb, the weight of the building would completely ...

... and dried it all up pretty quickly. I think we must have brought our Californian weather with us :) After a beautiful performance, we headed home and went straight to bed. We will be spending our whole Tuesday, resting and packing for Italia. We are taking a cab at 3 in the morning to East Croydon station where we will take a straight train to Gatwick Airport. At 5:55 am, we will depart for Pisa where we will spend a week wandering the streets of Luca.

... on the Monday. It was really nice and we had a relaxing night eating, watching TV and playing games. The following morning we went for a wander in Welwyn Garden City before Dennis and Jeannette headed back to London. Matt, his Mum, Dad, Chloe, Achim and Melissa all headed over to Trena and Keith's for a BBQ, we had a lovely ...

... other places. We hope to cycle through Brugge, Switzterland and Tuscany and sample the local produce and vino. The first leg of the trip it will only be Simon and I (Claire) and Shaun the Sheep (our mascot, see photos). We are on our own until the last week of May when Andy Wormald will join us pretty much for the remainder of the trip. Andrew (Si's brother) will join us for two weeks and there is talk of a few other people popping over ...

... restaurants) his first ever kitchen job and one of whom you can tell it is too; I find him lazy and I find he lackes serious amounts in initiative, cooperation and your basic team-member duties. All kitchen staff will talk slow and soft too -not exactly what one needs in a fast-paced kitchen environment- but I blaim that on lack of confidence within this new environment ...

It was another 14 hours before we arrived at Heathrow Airport in London. We spent most of our time eating, watching tv, or trying to sleep. I managed to get more sleep than Matt. We had a few hours at Heathrow which was lucky as we had to wait for a bus, than take a 10 minute bus ride to another terminal, then go ...

... into the Pre-school. Each teacher keeps track of the points awarded/taken away during the week. At the end of the school week, chips are placed into the "tubes" and at the end of the term, a 'house' is declared winner of the term! There is a head girl, and a head boy. When Jonathan was at St. Joes, he was head boy in his final year. Emily was named Vice Captain of Sports (for girls). Next year, she will join her brother at St. Edmunds College ...

... at Harmer, Emily showed me the 4 new kitties. When I came downstairs for some pudding, Annie had a birthday cake set up and Paul popped some of Seaview's finest sparkling wine! Though my birthday was 10 days ago, the Chappell's gave me a beautiful present and sang Happy Birthday! I finished the day with a 15 minute run and abs exercises. Tomorrow I plan on running to The White Horse Pub, swimming and enjoying my last day with Emily and Jonathan!

So even though we left Los Angeles about 30 minutes late our American Airlines flight got to London pretty much on time. We still had to get on a bus to get to another terminal and go through security again, which had a long line. Then they kept putting this person's cane through the x-ray and broke the machine so we had to transfer to another line. We were getting frustrated, because our time was quickly running out, and we ...