Ah Friday

Woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. What a great sleep. I feel refreshed. Spent the morning catching up on some 'to-dos'. Keith figures he's at work for a full day which is odd for Friday. I don't really have any plans for the day. It's a nice sunny day so I should be out enjoying it, even though it is a bit cool.

Tomorrow we are off to Delabole, Cornwall to visit Lauren's cousins (I think that's the relation), Hester, Mike and their son Andrew. We're meeting Dale, Lauren and the kiddies there. Hester and Mike own a dairy farm and we've been dying to visit. We'll be staying tomorrow night and getting a taste of farm life. My relatives back home used to own a dairy farm around Pictou and Nan and Gamp took me there often as a kid. I loved it. We're all excited to be around the animals and spend time with Lauren's family. It should be a great 2 days.

Late at Work

This week at work hasn't been bad at all, but a typical Thursday is everything hits the fan at 4pm and I'm there late. It's like they don't realize until then that I'm not in tomorrow. This week we started working on an identity branding tender and it's been quite a bit of work, as tenders normally are. Some last minutes things came up end of day today so I ended up being at work until 7pm. How fantastic! When I got home Keith had supper ready which was wonderful. I ended up crawling in bed at 9:30pm because I was bagged. I think it's because I didn't get enough sleep last weekend so I'm a bit tired this week. at least I'm hoping that's all it is. One of the guys at work has been out with the flu for 2 days. I better not be getting sick! Time to pop some vitamin C and echinasea. Ah, sleep.....

Climbing for Keith

Keith headed off at 6am this morning to drive to South Molton, Devon to indoor climb for the day. It was arranged by the Royal Navy and a few of the guys he's on course with decided to go. From what I gathered, they had a good day. I wonder how us civilian folk can arrange such things with our work?

Online Surfing/Shopping

Happy Birthday Dale & Kyle!

Keith is on duty tonight so he's working until 9:30pm or so. I'm playing around on the computer trying to figure out how to back-up this iMac - I'm so confused with Macs. They're great because they're simple, but in some sense too simple! Also doing a bit of online shopping - browsing really. Realized the luggage I have won't hold what I'll be taking home for a month so checking out eBay for a good deal on a very large suitcase. Also looking into an external hard drive to store all my pictures on to take home to show my family. This is an expensive trip home! But well worth it. Can't wait to see everyone. I had a little bit of homesickness the past 2 weeks. I don't know if you'd really call it homesick, but definitely missing my family. It's time to see my parents, my brothers, and my grandparents.

While adding this post I also added a few more 'British Oddities' and 'Things we can't get here' to my lists on the right hand side. It's funny trying to think of some of these things and I'm now forgetting what's normal and what's backwards British. Haha. Our Aussie friend Jono was saying on the weekend he believes the Brits try to do everything the longest or most difficult way possible - just because. I would say this probably goes for government. Sorry Lauren, I don't think you're backwards! :-)

Sleet/Hail

I think I opened my mouth too early a few blogs back when I said we didn't see a flake of snow yet. Twice today the sky got black, the heaven's opened and sleet/hail just poured down. It was bizarre. There was even a little left behind on the ground but melted within a few minutes. The weather is saying England could get up to 10cm of snow tonight! I didn't catch what part of England but hopefully not the South West! Maybe it'll favor London along with the little Earthquake last week!

Absolutely Nothing

It was a day for sleeping. Not getting to bed until stupid o'clock in the morning, I needed my sleep. I got up for an hour or so in the morning then had a 2 hour nap over lunch. How nice! I never nap.

I spent the afternoon being lazy but unfortunately I'm a woman and with that comes the need to get stuff done. So even though I plan to do nothing, I usually am unable to do that because there's always something that needs to be done - laundry, supper, etc. I cooked another chicken for supper and we had a great roast dinner. I even made apple crisp for dessert. Eventually I relaxed on the couch and did my favorite Sunday thing - watch CSI - 2 episodes!

Course Social

It's March! Yeehaw! We've been here 11 months today! I'm always so happy when January and February are over. Although I was very happy to not see a flake of snow this winter. Maybe next year I'll miss the cold and snow...not likely! It's still 8-12 degrees here during the day which suits me just fine. They did report it was going to be very cold a few nights with the temperature dipping down to -6C. Haha. I thought it was quite funny they considered that very cold. These people would die in Canada.

So tired and lazy this morning we ended up sleeping in until 10:30am. Not hard to tell we don't have kids! After running some errands and grocery shopping Jono dropped into meet Keith as they have their course social today. After a 1/2 hour visit the boys walked into town to meet the rest of the crew. As it's only 3pm I have no interest to go with them now and be out for the night. I've decided to stay home until supper time or early evening then I may walk in and meet them. We'll see.

Just as I was hanging up with Mom to go get ready to go out, Rach called and said she was on her way home from work (early) and she was up for going out too. Yay! She picked me up at 8:30pm and we went out and met up with the boys. There were only 10 of them out and a few snuck off early, but it turned out to be an alright night. We went to the Blue Anchor first, then off to one of the Crewman instructor's parties then ended at Big T's. I left the guys an hour before they headed home because I had enough. So I came home and made Kraft Dinner! Any of my girlfriends know this is my drinking go-to food. Keith and Jono arrived back at about 3:30am and Jono crashed here. Not a bad night.

Pictures from the evening:
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