Friday, January 16, 2009

Sorry for the delay, the pictures had to thaw!

Greetings everyone, it has been such a busy week for the two of us that we haven't had a chance to post anything. We wanted to share some more pictures from last weekend.
Last week was very cold (sounds like what you are getting right now)! Last friday night, we decided that a trip to Stonehenge the plan for Saturday. We got going around 10 for two hour drive. The car's thermometer said -5.5 C when we left, and didn't pop over 0C all day. It was so cold that the windshield washer fluid was frozen most of the day. Here's a video from our drive to Stonehenge.



We had fun walking around and seeing Stonehenge, although it was about as you'd expect. We signed up for the English Heritage annual pass, which allows us to go to over 400 historical sites across England. Since we got this pass, we will have to go back to see the stones when they (and us) are not frozen.

After our short tour of Stonehenge, we decided to eat lunch at the nearby town of Salisbury. We found a delightful pub to dine, and had some of the best food so far. After lunch, we wanted to see what the town had to offer, so we walked over to the Salisbury Cathedral.

The cathedral was built 14th century and housed the oldest known working tower clock in the UK (possibly the world) and an original copy of the Magna Carta. The cathedral's history and architecture were quite impressive, and it was neat seeing the historical document.

Sunday we went to Ikea to pick out the furniture that we are going to have for the next year. The rest of the week has been mostly filled with work and purchasing housing goods for the flat. We currently have around 50 Ikea boxes of furniture waiting to be assembled. That's what we are up to this weekend. We got the keys to the flat, but now we have to put everything together and get it ready for us to move in.

On a side note, we found that the SkyTV Sports tele channel is showing the NFL playoff games late nite on Sunday. Last week we got to watch the Ravens! We'll see if we can stay up this weekend to watch them again.

Sorry we haven't gotten a chance to call anyone lately. Our cell is very low on minutes and we haven't had a minute to top up. Hopefully we will get a chance this weekend and will give everyone a call sometime soon.

Cheers!
- Chamee and Ken

2 comments:

Auchris8 said...

Greetings from the lake. Grandpa, Dad, Kim and I wanted to say hello. It sounds like y'all are having fun. We went to tour the Bass Pro Shops in Prattville today. It is too cold here to do anything on the water. The low last night was 18F at the lake. Have fun putting together furniture.

Unknown said...

Just wanted yall to know that I'm still alive! I'm quite jealous of all of the adeventures you two go on (that cathedral picture was amazing!)

I've been working at the Braves for about a week and a half now. We had our first major event last night! It was the Braves Diamond Gala to benefit our foundation-a casino night with the players dealing. Derrick Lowe seemed to be having an especially good time haha. I started work at 8:55 AM and left at 1:30 AM because I was one of the last people there breaking down and loading things. It is crazy busy, but I love it. I try to act like nothing is a big deal, but I must admit that I saw Hank Aaron yesterday at the stadium while I was loading things on the truck and I was so in awe I could not speak...I'll aim for saying "hello" next time.

This comment is slightly long, but I felt the need to update you (and everyone that reads your blog) on my life...thanks for the outlet.

I hope everything is going well my little world travelers. I miss you!