Sunday, March 18, 2007

Leeds Castle

So here was another successful time as a tour escort!!! This time Leeds Castle!! It was wonderful!! Josh and I had a nice relaxing day together!! Leeds castle was really famous for all there ducks and swans around the castle and since there are running free... Josh decided to Show our new little friend Blake how to feed the ducks... instead he got bit by it... we all had a really good laugh at that one!! I don't think Josh liked it so much!!
To walk to the castle you had to walk around this path that was 3/4 of a mile but it was great they had a bunch of great pictures of the castle along the walk!!!















At the Castle they had a really nice restaurant to eat at !!! It was lit inside with these beautiful White lights!! Sorry we didn't feel like asking Jenny or Tyler to take our picture so we took them separately .. we thought it was funny thoughFor fun back in the day they had mazes that you would go through!!! Well this castle just happened to have one and it was updated!! Since I am so determined and with a bunch of introverts and I am the extrovert I solved the maze... I even had to help Krissy and her family get through the maze but I gave up and Josh had to help show them the rest of the way... Sorry!!
At the end of our tour we found these peacocks... one was actually an albino it was so beautiful and it was really hungry so Josh was trying to feed both of them!!! It was beautiful!!! Thus ended our tour!! It was a great day and maybe a little long but we had a great time!!!!

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Who did it??

I know this picture is really bad looking but sorry it had to be this way... We all went out for a dinner mystery night!!! It was cool and we were on best behavior because the bishop was there!! LOL!!! But it was a lot of fun and our table figured out who did it!!! We actually won which was great!! We can't help it we are so smart and can tell if you are lying I think it was because the bishop was there!!!
Josh Loved it so much that he just didn't want to leave but I reminded him that he had his Tom tom in the car and he quickly decided to come along!!! Thanks to the Ingrams for picking out this lovely evening!!!

Mower!!!

It was a first touch of the sun!! luckily for us Josh bought a mower and was out mowing!!! Poor Dolche wanted to help him out really bad! Since we didn't want him to get sucked up by the mower he had to watch from the window!! Poor Dolche!!!!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Warwick Castle!

England is filled with many beautiful castles this Castle, Warwick was one that Josh and I just happened to get to go to for FREE!!! Yes another trip as me the Tour Escort!!! It was so much fun!! But since we went for free we had an audio tour that we paided for and a book came with it for free!!! This was a great Castle it was so Awesome inside many of the rooms were done up!!!
Okay so it rains all the time in England and you would think that I would have an umbrella everywhere I went but I forgot it and had to wear this bag over my head... I just thought it was funny!!! When in doubt get a bag!!!











At the beginning of our tour Josh and I were excelled and placed in these stockades and tomatoes were thrown at us... okay just kidding but it was a photo opportunity and since we didn't go with anyone we both took one of each other!!!


























As you see one of the rooms that were done up... No these were not real people they are wax figures!!! They were so life like it was kinda scary!! It was so beautiful though. The man that I am standing next to I thought was one of the wax figures that came to life and I screamed really loud!!!! Pour guy He thought he
was in a lot of trouble!!!
















Warwick Castle had it's own Hydro Electric plant the first of its kind a water mill it was neat how it lit up the castle very interesting to Josh that is LOL!!!

One part of the Castle called Peacock Garden actually had live Peacocks running around it was great there were a lot of them so we had to take a picture I looked everywhere for a feather and I was going to pluck one off of one but England has laws against hurting birds and since I didn't want to go to jail I just took a picture!!!!










Josh and I had reached the top of the Castle and it was so sunny up there my eyes were hurting but it had a beautiful view of Warwick that I didn't see much of but Josh had a good time looking out at the little town!!! Warwick Castle is the Best castle that we have been to so far it was great!!!

Chinese New Year

"Hear Ye Hear Ye" Happy New Year!!! The year of the pig!!! This was my first trip as a Tour Escort it was great though!!!! I was a little nervous and it was kinda scary but as soon as they handed me the microphone one the bus I got over it really fast!!!
The Chinese New year was held in London but it was so much fun!!!
There wasn't much to there Parade not like the one in China but hey it was free!!! It was funny because there was a lot of British people that were in the parade only like a handful of actual Chinese people... but it gave Josh the opportunity to speak Cantonese he ordered our food in Cantonese so that was great!!!








Here is some beautiful Chinese dancers it was the highlight of the parade and all they did was walk tiptoed up and back but they looked really pretty doing it so snaps for them!!!

























You can't really see but behind us is China Town in London there was like a bunch of people behind us and we had to pretty much elbow our way through!! It was so crowded!!!!
Tina had the great idea to go and see a musical while everyone froze outside so we went and saw Stomp!!! It was really Awesome but Josh and Austin both fell a sleep during the production it was just a long day!!! Also we had to be up really early in the morning!!! But we had a great time and it was great to spend a day doing what Josh Loves to do and for a chance for him to Speak his second language!!! Plus give him a little reminder of his mission that he served so faithfully!!!! We sure are proud of him!!!

Paris in February!!!! Ang's Birthday

Our 3 day tour of Francis was one to remember!!! We departed 5 in the morning from good old Lakenheath and headed to Dover and across the sea by ship!!! It was so neat to do that!!! Our Bus was underneath the ship and once we arrived to Calais we headed to Paris for a tour of Paris by night!!!
We ate at this Great Parisian Restaurant and they had singing by some french guy and laughs with others on the trip... there was all you could drink but we had French water and soda instead!!! It was really neat to be sung to in French and they guy actually tried to sing to us in English which was really funny!!!

The second day, After Breakfast we headed for another tour of Paris but we had a chance to get out and take pictures the Blue building that you see is one of the most expensive restaurants in Paris they are known for there Duck and a plate runs about 1000 Euro's!!!