Well... as you can see I haven't written in FAR too long... I apologize... I've had a hard time lately finding things I want to write about. The second half of my stay here has not been as exciting in the element of travel as the first half. Nonetheless, I scratched down a few notes and will take you through a couple of things I've gotten to do recently.
A couple of weeks ago (Nov 18) Tom and I went in to London to see the Opening of Parliament. We didn't attend the actual ceremony inside of Parliament but we attended the parade in hopes of seeing the Queen!! And we did!!! It was pretty neat!! The pictures I took turned out pretty blurry but I did share above, the actual picture of the Queen and Philip even though it's very blurry. You get the idea at least.
Then, last night there was a concert on base that I went to. It was Kid Rock with Carlos Mencia opening... it was pretty good... I was excited to get out and do something different. (Of course: FREE is always nice too!!)
Other than that I've remained pretty low key. We're coming upon January which is my brother's deployment month and things are starting to veer toward his preparation and my preparation to make the journey home with my sister-in-law and the kids. It's been great to be here, to help, to have fun, to learn, and experience so many things!! Next week we'll be heading in to London for my last time... I'm so excited and sad at the same time. I LOVE London and it will be great to go get a few more pictures to share with people and spend time with the family.
I'm hoping to get more pictures up on Facebook and more blogging done as I bring my journey to an end in a month or so... If you'd like the link to the pictures let me know or add me as a friend on FB. Until the next time... I'll leave you with another one of my "silly lists" of interesting facts I continue to learn the longer I'm here!!! (*Disclaimer: Please forgive me if I repeat some of my random facts!) Have a good week.
~ In England they have what is called "The Right to Roam". It's a law that states you can walk wherever you'd like. Through someone's field... whatever... and because of it... several people have been killed..... BY COWS!!!! Crazy... but get this; if you're walking your dog and you choose to cut through a field.... often times the dog scares the cattle. The cattle then stampede and usually the human gets trampled and the dog is found seemingly unscathed down the road awhile later...
~ You cannot own a gun in this country. There is no hunting... and PS... there's TONS of pheasants!!!
~ The area in which we live is called "The Fens" and at one time not so long ago it was all under water... then, they dug deep ditches, formed roads and set up farmland... actually let me rephrase... they set up farmland and then roads... Over here, you can live 15 miles from somewhere but it might take you 30-40 minutes to get there because the roads wind and curve AROUND the farmer's land. There have also been several deaths in car accidents in our area because these deep ditches in the states would be reverted to cement culvers, however due to the narrow roads, if you fly off a curve and flip into the ditch.... you might end up in 5 feet of water and drown.... pretty scary.
~ You can still get your milk delivered in a glass bottle here if you so choose.
~ If you have an American Spec car over here... where the steering wheel is on the left, you cannot pass while driving.
~ Over here, the police are called "Bobbies", getting arrested is coined as, "getting nicked", and if the cops suspect you have drugs on you, they'll ask if you're carrying any "gear" on yourself. (That mostly refers to cannabis)
~ Something I just figured out is that there is no "Righty tighty, Lefty Loosey" here. Strange!!
~ While driving on an interstate or freeway here you'll find that there are no "rest areas", however if you want a tea break or need a pit stop there are little refreshment stands that are parked on the road. They are literally right on the road, with a slightly widened shoulder for them to park on... and lots of times they are packed!!
~ If a police officer drives by you and you are walking or driving and they feel you even look REMOTELY suspicious, they have the right to stop you, or pull you over, search your car or your person just to check things out.
~ When you go shopping over here you'll see that 90% of stores have their cashiers SITTING at their station waiting on you.....
I guess those are the ones I can think of this time around. I'm sure I'll have more next time. I always seem to come up with something to talk about!! So.. until I'm enlightened again..... ttfn!!
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