Merry Old England

I'm in London with the girls and Sandra, on our first family reunion trip. I've been here before so the excitement for me is in seeing the girls after 3 months. Natalie, who works at Tim Hortons, brought me a box of double chocolate donuts. I ate three on the train back to our hostel. Yes we're staying in a six bed hostel, its like when we travelled when the kids were young and we all stayed in one hotel/motel room: kids and clothes and knapsacks and shoes and books and mp3 players and makeup and,,,were all over the place,

I've been eating a lot here I confess, we went to a pub last night for fish and chips and yesterday morning we had a big English breakfast with fried tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans (I just can't get away from them, can I?) and all the chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate bars etc. they brought me.

There's a lovely little square outide our hostel, the picture of Melanie and I is from there. Then we went for a walk through Hyde Park to see the Diana memorial, Prince Labert Hall, Kengsington Palace and the highlight of the day, squirrels that ran up to us as if they were going to eat out of our hand and then ran away. The jerks. Oh well, the girls liked them,

I'd forgotten how much teenagers sleep.