Four Days Past

It's a record, I haven't posted for four days. I have been traveling it's been great. My goal for this trip is to relax and to increase my stamina for things like walking and general activity. I have been feeling a little fatigued after taking B to the park. But that's not what you want to hear about, is it?

My trip has been great. The flights were uneventful and my decade long flying strike is over and I wasn't even scared one bit. Okay maybe just a little bit when we went through some turbulence, but I reminded myself that it's bumpier going down 91S to take B to school then it was in the plane and I was okay. Even though we were on the red eye, and I envisioned B putting on her jammies and conking out, it was pretty much the opposite. She didn't sleep much, Pat didn't sleep much and I didn't sleep a wink. We left Logan at 7pm and got to England at 6am local time, B said ti was just day and then it was night and now it's morning - wow, that was fast. It was a very quick indeed. The 3 hour wait at Heathrow was pretty miserable and we somehow managed to spend $40 on breakfast (it was delicious, but really!). The 1 hour flight from Heathrow to Newcastle was easy and fun to see the land beneath the plane.

So I had a small nap in the afternoon, but mostly stayed up until bedtime. And lucky us, B slept through the night - as did we. Thank God. B woke me up at a reasonable 6am and we decided to make a quest to the area park. We didn't find it, but we went up a gorgeous path along the Tyne river and B said, "I don't know what this path is called, but I am going to call it the flower path." Then we talked to see a baby horse and some cows. It was a really nice to way to start the day.

Lunch was spent at the local dairy farm, with fantastic ice cream.

All and all it has been a great trip, super fun with Mary and all the people who live with her (that's what B says), and nice weather. More later.