Road Trip

I'm not going on a road trip, but Jed and our good friend from college and Jed's roomie for 3 years are in Scotland and Northern England for a couple of days. I think that they are having a fun time. Jed said that the drive up the A1 that goes along the coast of England is gorgeous. I went to Edinburgh in March 06, (have I been over here that long?!) to see Nickel Creek perform and to visit a friend who was studying abroad in Edinburgh. Right now the big festival is happening so I think that Jed and Colin will get a different taste of Edinburgh that I did. I bet that Jed will blog about it when he gets back.

I had my first wedding nightmare last night! I won't bore you with the details of the dream, but I thought that it was 3:20 when it was actually 4:20 and the wedding was supposed to start at 4:00. All of the guests were patiently waiting for the ceremony to start, but my hair was unwashed, up in a pony, and I was not in my dress. I wonder how many more nightmares I'll have before 29th December?

In other news, I'm back to work on Monday. Three more weeks and then my 3 plus years at CA is over.

I thought about going into London for the day, but I have a few things to do in Cambridge. I might though go and see the Simpsons movie tonight. I want to see it, but Jed doesn't have much interest. People have said that it's pretty funny, not great, but glad that they went.

Pictures site

Yesterday I went through some of my pictures and posted them to Picasa. If you click on the link "My pictures" on the right hand side, you'll be able to see them. Cool, huh?

My parents

My mom and dad came over last week and visited me for about a week. It was so good to see them and I think that they enjoyed seeing me and getting to know Jed more. We went punting one day and we also picked a place to have our wedding reception. Its' going to be at the Cambridge Garden House which is in walking distance of the chapel where we are getting married. The hotel is nice and it's going to be decorated for Christmas. We haven't decided what kind of food we are going to have, but it might an "English Christmas" themed dinner. I know that English food is thought to be bad, don't worry, we'll make sure that it tastes good.

Here's are two pictures of my parents on the River Cam.





Jed also had to move house last weekend. We are getting to be expert movers w.o using a moving company or even a car. Here's a silly picture of Jed wearing our friend's trench coat and "walking his chair" and carrying a lamp during the moving process.

Visitors

I don't do a very good job of keeping this blog updated. :(

My parents are coming over today. Actually they leave Atlanta tonight and will arrive in Cambridge mid-day tomorrow. We're planning to do a bit of wedding preparation, go punting, and see a concert at Kings. I can' wait to have them there. I'm also joining my church on Sunday and my parents are coming to that. Jed and I have a friend from Bowdoin coming over for about a week and a half starting Aug 7 or so. We'll probably take him punting too! We really do like to punt.

I think that I'm going to end my job on 31 Aug. That's when my visa expires. Should I apply for other jobs in case my Cambridge job falls through?

The band Uncle Earl is coming to the UK in the fall. Let's hope that I have a job and can buy a ticket!

The flooding over here is terrible. I'm not directly affected by it, but it's so sad to read about the situation in the papers.

Jed's computer is on the fritz. Ah!

Must do some tidying before my parents come.

garden

I can't really post b/c I'm at work, but Jed and I have decided that we're going to fix up our garden at 53 Selwyn Road. Jed and I dug a lot out a lot of weeds on Saturday night. I'll post some before and after pics next weekend. (That's when I'm getting Internet). Saturday was such a great day.