April
Well it has been a mixed month, (although we have got the phone connected now as some of you already know), hence the lack of these letters, plus amazingly enough I’ve been busy at work, (you can stop laughing at the back, it’s true). And as we now settle down to a normal life here in the US, less things are happening even as we do more?!? (There’s got to be some logic in there somewhere). As a result of this I’ve decided instead of making it a weekly letter I would do a monthly one.
Anyway what did we do, well as we still haven’t got a car Yvonne has being getting fit, by walking, “best cure for cellulite ever” she says. Plus I walk every morning, down to the bus stop. One thing we have noticed is that bus’s are for second class citizens, either that or you’ve been done for drink driving, which funnily enough does not seem to be often. The Metro on the other hand is for everybody.
For a bit of an overview, first weekend in April we did a joint hire of a car with Lee, (another Brit Noblestar guy), and we did some shopping, first at Ikea and secondly at Pentagon City, a big mall close to….. yup the Pentagon. We have also played crazy golf at a nearby club, Jefferson Park to be exact, best crazy golf course I’ve ever played on. That same day we went round to Mike and Megan’s for a barbie, which was very nice as the weather was gorgeous. From that point on it has yoyo’d back and forth between rain and gorgeous days, mainly the rain coming at the weekends and the sun in the week :-( Lee flew home in April and brought back his girlfriend, Layney, so we had them round for a meal and then it was my birthday so we had a “bit of a do”. Weather was supposed to be c..p but ended up being nice so great day. The day before my birthday we went to a yard sale at Jo and Duncan’s church, where we bought Josh a bike for $20. Now all we need is a helmet, (it’s the law here for children to wear a helmet).
Finally last weekend, (I know its supposed to be April but…), we hired a car by ourselves. On the Saturday we went shopping at LL Bean, (shorts for me and trousers for Luke), then we went to the Silver Diner, a proper American diner and then we went to the Air and Space Museum at Dulles, where they have the Enterprise, a Concorde, a Blackbird and a fair few other planes as well. The boys raced round whilst we pottered. On the Sunday we went to Baltimore, which is an hours drive from us, where they have done a Newcastle with the Inner Harbour. We visited the National Aquarium, paddled a boat and generally sauntered round looking at the harbour area. There is a variety of vessels to go on but we saved them for a weekend visit, we have to go again as we took out membership to the aquarium on the grounds that it’ll be cheaper?!?
Luke had quite an exciting month, first he went to the Air and Space Museum but they didn’t get to see the planes, instead they saw an educational film and were then taken bowling. Never mind though as he then had a career day. The idea is that the kids are taken to workplaces and shown what actually goes on at work, at this point I got a bit worried as the thought of Luke watching me and Mike sitting there doing b…r all did not appeal :-) But no, rather they are taken to another workplace where they can watch other people at work, amazingly enough because we had only just arrived they weren’t going to send Luke but after an email to his teacher they changed and said what would you like to do out of, an office or the army air force. NO CONTEST. So he had a great day being shown round Davidson Airbase, where they fly politicians and their flunkeys around the world in helicopters or Lear Jets.
Josh has had a pretty tough month in comparison, his homework it just like it was at the Edinburgh Academy, lots of it in a short timescale. He is struggling with his reading still but is slowly getting better. His maths, as ever, is superb even if he takes a while to read the question :-( He also had a trip to the Air and Space Museum and, unlike Luke, got to see the planes. However he has not been up the control tower, which I have, so after two visits each for Luke, Josh and me I lead in stuff seen :-) Josh also went to George Washington’s house at Mount Vernon and Yvonne got to go with him. Apparently they had a good day out and there is a lot to see there, so I foresee a family visit at some point.
As for Yvonne well apart from getting fit by walking, she is also going to Jazzercize, don’t ask me but it seems to consist of women going to some form of exercise and then going to Starbucks for coffee, cake and meaningless talks about everything. If George Bush had this lot for advisers he’d be a lot better off :-)
As for me well I’ve been extremely busy, god that laughing is getting to me now, I HAVE YOU KNOW, I’ve been building some software to monitor.. jeez they’re all asleep.
Anyway that’s it for now, we'll keep in touch.
Anyway what did we do, well as we still haven’t got a car Yvonne has being getting fit, by walking, “best cure for cellulite ever” she says. Plus I walk every morning, down to the bus stop. One thing we have noticed is that bus’s are for second class citizens, either that or you’ve been done for drink driving, which funnily enough does not seem to be often. The Metro on the other hand is for everybody.
For a bit of an overview, first weekend in April we did a joint hire of a car with Lee, (another Brit Noblestar guy), and we did some shopping, first at Ikea and secondly at Pentagon City, a big mall close to….. yup the Pentagon. We have also played crazy golf at a nearby club, Jefferson Park to be exact, best crazy golf course I’ve ever played on. That same day we went round to Mike and Megan’s for a barbie, which was very nice as the weather was gorgeous. From that point on it has yoyo’d back and forth between rain and gorgeous days, mainly the rain coming at the weekends and the sun in the week :-( Lee flew home in April and brought back his girlfriend, Layney, so we had them round for a meal and then it was my birthday so we had a “bit of a do”. Weather was supposed to be c..p but ended up being nice so great day. The day before my birthday we went to a yard sale at Jo and Duncan’s church, where we bought Josh a bike for $20. Now all we need is a helmet, (it’s the law here for children to wear a helmet).
Finally last weekend, (I know its supposed to be April but…), we hired a car by ourselves. On the Saturday we went shopping at LL Bean, (shorts for me and trousers for Luke), then we went to the Silver Diner, a proper American diner and then we went to the Air and Space Museum at Dulles, where they have the Enterprise, a Concorde, a Blackbird and a fair few other planes as well. The boys raced round whilst we pottered. On the Sunday we went to Baltimore, which is an hours drive from us, where they have done a Newcastle with the Inner Harbour. We visited the National Aquarium, paddled a boat and generally sauntered round looking at the harbour area. There is a variety of vessels to go on but we saved them for a weekend visit, we have to go again as we took out membership to the aquarium on the grounds that it’ll be cheaper?!?
Luke had quite an exciting month, first he went to the Air and Space Museum but they didn’t get to see the planes, instead they saw an educational film and were then taken bowling. Never mind though as he then had a career day. The idea is that the kids are taken to workplaces and shown what actually goes on at work, at this point I got a bit worried as the thought of Luke watching me and Mike sitting there doing b…r all did not appeal :-) But no, rather they are taken to another workplace where they can watch other people at work, amazingly enough because we had only just arrived they weren’t going to send Luke but after an email to his teacher they changed and said what would you like to do out of, an office or the army air force. NO CONTEST. So he had a great day being shown round Davidson Airbase, where they fly politicians and their flunkeys around the world in helicopters or Lear Jets.
Josh has had a pretty tough month in comparison, his homework it just like it was at the Edinburgh Academy, lots of it in a short timescale. He is struggling with his reading still but is slowly getting better. His maths, as ever, is superb even if he takes a while to read the question :-( He also had a trip to the Air and Space Museum and, unlike Luke, got to see the planes. However he has not been up the control tower, which I have, so after two visits each for Luke, Josh and me I lead in stuff seen :-) Josh also went to George Washington’s house at Mount Vernon and Yvonne got to go with him. Apparently they had a good day out and there is a lot to see there, so I foresee a family visit at some point.
As for Yvonne well apart from getting fit by walking, she is also going to Jazzercize, don’t ask me but it seems to consist of women going to some form of exercise and then going to Starbucks for coffee, cake and meaningless talks about everything. If George Bush had this lot for advisers he’d be a lot better off :-)
As for me well I’ve been extremely busy, god that laughing is getting to me now, I HAVE YOU KNOW, I’ve been building some software to monitor.. jeez they’re all asleep.
Anyway that’s it for now, we'll keep in touch.
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