Today I (Chris) spent about an hour and a half getting us setup for a weekend overnight into Paris. We are setup now and found a free hotel even using some holiday inn points I had saved up. The Eurotunnel will take us under the English Channel and into France and it is about a 4 hour drive from home to Paris. It is really just a scouting trip for us to get familiar with the lay of the land. We'd like to see the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, but we shall see. We'll be there in a couple of weeks so we'll let you know when.
Today we went to the Bluewater mall. It is very big, and busy. We didn't really buy anything, I can't bring myself to spend the money on things I may want. Teri really needs a thin spring jacket, but the only one we could find was 50 GBP (Great Britain Pounds), which is $100. Teri and I just couldn't see spending that much for the thing. We'll look around some more. Teri wears this ripped up old nylon jacket that I bought probably 18years ago on a rafting trip. It is horrible looking, but she likes it. I just can't stand seeing her in it, so we need to find something soon.
Makenna decided she only wanted to be carried by me and I couldn't do it for long (she is getting so big), so I gave her the option of walking or being in the cart. She didn't want to walk, just fell to the floor over and over. so she went into the cart and BAM, neuclear meltdown! We could not bring her out of it no matter how we tried. We just had to push her with everyone staring at the crazed girl. She eventually calmed down, but it was a good half hour.
We got some good evidence of how big she is getting when we went into this toy store and there was this rocking zebra thing that we have in our living room, that I think Mark and Jennifer gave us. She never really liked it all that much, but it was like seeing an old friend for her here and she jumped on it and went nuts with it. She had never done that at home because it was always too high off the ground. Here, now, she towers over it. We really were amazed how much she must have grown.
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Hi Chris and Terijo!
I was watching the travel channel today and they had a nice piece on Snowdonia National Park in Wales. It is the UK's 2nd largest national park and contain the tallest peak in the UK, Mount Snowdonia @ 4,000ft. It can be hiked in 4 hours or take the train to the top for breath taking views of Wales! There is also Swallow Falls, that resemble Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca. There are several villages in the park, the show mention two as especially nice; Betws y coed and Beddgelert. They have accomadation so you don't have to do everything in one day. I thought you might want to see something besides old cathederals for a change : ) Or think of it as Nature's cathederal. Do try and get there, take some pics, I'd love to see them.
Much love, Jennifer
http://www.snowdonia-npa.gov.uk/page/index.php?nav1=home&nav2=1&nav3=1&lang=eng&view=graphic
Here's its website!
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