Photos of England

This is Warwick castle....rather like a renaissance festival in the US....but in a REAL castle. It was amazing!! We saw actual jousting and they not only jousted each other but bags of exploding gas or something and rings on fire and such. The kids were enthralled. There was also a birds of prey show where they send these huge birds swooping over the audience's heads. Crazy. Very English history stuff which I loved being a History major and growing up in the Brisith education system!

Mom and Dad on one of the bridges in London with Big Ben and the houses of Parliament in the background. The third tower on the left is the Tower of London where everyone was imprisoned and beheaded. We had two separate "tourist days" in London but most of the time we did what you see below:

walking in the green woods!!!!!!!

Layla is wearing a present from her Nana...her aunty's old dress and hand-knit shawl which was VERY useful in Britain as it was literally the coldest August on record! We loved it. Ryan is wearing an astronaut dress up outfit from my mom. He went outside in full expectation that he would be able to soar into the air. Oh the disappointments of childhood!!!

We were in England for about 5 weeks and were able to stay in the home of friends of friends. It was in a small village and we LOVED it. Public pool, public library and playground....big treats!!! Tom was there for some medical stuff which was good news all around though his vestibular system is permanently damaged in January by some virus they assume was the chicken pox virus. crazy. His brain is miraculously compensating which is incredible. He does still have fatigue as a result of his brain overworking to learn how to get balance signals with only half the data it usually does but she said that should taper off fairly soon. She was an awesome Dr.

Good times all around!