Greetings All!

I had a lovely weekend. Scott had to work for quite a bit of the weekend. We headed into the City earlyish on Saturday morning. We arrived at St Pauls just on 11am and we found ourselves a spot to watch the parade. I love parades. There is something about them that brings out the child in me. Everyone is happy to be there, there are people yelling and blowing whistles, there are horses and marching bands, and museum artefacts. There was even a Delorian car (like in Back to the Future). The parade itself went on for about an hour. I was happy to see the highlight of the Show again, the Lord Mayor's Coach. It's was great to see it out of its normal spot in the Museum of London.

It is funny how a lot of people do not know the history of the Lord Mayor's Show, or even know that it's on. I did ask some friends from home who are living here if they wanted to come, but I guess no reply to my email meant that they had no idea what I was talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_mayors_show Yay for Wikipedia!

We are off to Amsterdam on the 24th of this month. It will be a lovely break, one I am really looking forward to. We have not been "overseas" since we went to Sweden in January. Scotland doesn't really count as we didn't need our passports! We have three days booked there (including my parents' birthdays on the Monday 27th). Amsterdam is a lovely place. Then we are off to Bristol and Cardiff two weekends later. And then to Pompeii in January when Scott's dad is here. So not much travel in 10 months, then three trips in the space of 8 weeks!!