Today was a beautiful day in England (more about that, later, when I’m able to post pictures)…. and tomorrow is the reception for Megan’s wedding. It is suppose to rain super hard tomorrow. That blows.

Today, we went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of groceries for the party. Everyone is bringing stuff, but they decided it was mostly salads, so they needed more main course items. They bought frozen pizzas, and because they have a small little mini fridge, we had to bake them today, and them we just wrapped them in aluminum foil, and then we will re-heat them tomorrow. Megan thought that maybe we could store the pizzas in the bathtub with ice to keep them chilled, but they decided baking them was the best decision. Then, Mac came home with 18 bottles of wine, and he was like “How are we going to chill it???” And I said “you can just chill it tomorrow when you chill the soda… it only will need to chill in ice for about an hour.” But he thought that it had to chill forever (over night, at least). He started to fill the bathtub up with cold water (I don’t know what is up with them using their bathtub as a faux-freezer…. they just need to get a regular sized fridge! Problem solved.) But then he wondered “How will I chill the bottles without the labels coming off?” So I insisted that he did NOT have to chill them overnight. He didn’t believe me, so then he looked it up on the Internet, and came to the conclusion that “Americans are crazy, because they say wine only needs to be chilled for one hour.” Told you so!! Then, because he had a bathtub filled with cold water, he decided to soak his feet in it, because he didn’t want to waste the water.

Then, he took some outside and watered plants with it, as to not waste it again.

But its going to rain tomorrow, so the plants didn’t really need to be watered.

Oh, and they don’t have a back up plan for it raining. And the reception is planned out in a park. With no tent, or no cover-up. Fuuuuuuuuuun.

In Britain, it’s usually cloudy and dull pretty much every day. We experienced that weather the first few days. It was very chilly for being August - mid 60s maybe? It was definitely long pants and sweater weather! After being in the south west where it was sunny and hot nearly everyday, plus being at a high elevation where the sun seemed hotter anyway, it was a definite change I was not prepared for, nor enjoyed.

But when it DOES get sunny, the British go a bit bonkers. It happened to be really sunny on Saturday, and all morning Mac kept saying “let’s go outside!!!” He didn’t want to do anything; just stand outside. For him, it was important just to be outside and to soak up the sun’s rays. Meg and I were eating lunch, and I looked out and saw Mac just standing in the yard. Then when we walked into town, we made sure to walk on the side of the street that the sun was shining on.

I guess when British people don’t get much sun, they sure feel that it’s important to throughly enjoy it when it’s around.

On the flight into London, we were just having breakfast, getting ready to land, and I looked at my Clock on my iPhone, and it was only 11:30pm in Albuquerque, where I had just been 24 hours before. And here I was having breakfast, where they were probably just going to sleep. Now THAT is a messed up feeling.

My sister, Megan, got married on August 3rd here in Fitchburg. 

Her husband is a Brit, and they live over in England.  She had to send away for her spousal visa (to be able to live in England), and to do that, she had to mail her passport to NYC.   She has a wedding reception planned in England for this Sunday, for all of their friends/relatives in England who couldn’t trek all the way to the US for the wedding here.  She was planning on leaving for England today, and the rest of the family (me and my parents) were following her on a flight tomorrow night.

So anyway, Megan got an email yesterday saying “Your visa is being processed.  It usually takes about 10 business days.”  She was suppose to fly back to England TODAY.  She missed that flight.

Then today, she got an email saying “Your visa has been processed, and it will be overnighted to you.”  So, she’s supposed to get it in the mail via UPS tomorrow.  Soo…. she changed her flight to tomorrow night (same night we are flying).  Sooo….. we’re all traveling into Boston tomorrow, and flying out to London.  The three of us take off at 8:45 with Virgin Atlantic, my sister takes off at 9:30 on British Airways.  Hahahaha…. its funny that we’re not on the same flight.

I just got home from New Mexico tonight, and now I have to ship off again to London tomorrow.  I was kind of hoping that her visa wouldn’t come, so I could relax at home a bit…. but it is better that the three of us don’t have to change OUR plane tickets, cause that would just be an abundance of fees and such.

So we are all shipping out to London tomorrow night for fun filled British activities.  I’m back in the States Sept 2nd.

I’m *kind* of sick of vacationing.  I just want to relax in my own bed, and be able to eat my own food!!!!  

When I lived in New Mexico years ago, I never made it to Roswell. As a gigantic X Files fan, that indeed was a tragedy. So while vacationing in NM this time, I made sure to get down there.

It was an absolutely horrible, boring 3 hour drive, but once we got to Roswell, it was an X Philes dream come true. Well, in reality, it was just a bunch of alien stuff everywhere. It was made known that aliens were welcome at the Arbys, and that aliens enjoy drinking Coke. But Mulder and Scully made an appearance at the International UFO Museum. So that was worth the trip in itself.