The long goodbye.....

Hello Dear Readers,

Well I reached the end of a two week vacation.  You know it was good because I forgot my work login this morning when I finally went back and had to get the IT guys to fix it.  One of them suggested I prevent that in the future by not going on vacation.......

 We had a pleasent last few days in Cyprus, visiting the port, meeting up with our friends Stavros and Margarhita (who are getting married in July, poor dears.....) 

Dad, Jeff and Chris also earned the respect of the Mouchtares of Aramou (Chris's family's village) by participating in one of the Easter Games.  We have no idea what it was they were playing (something about a pepper??) but they were really good sports about it, even though he kept whipping them with a knotted towel.

Back in London we did more tourist things, we went to see A Chorus Line (yes, I may have heavily influenced that decision, and yes it was AMAZING live and on stage.  The only way to see it.  The ONE and only way to see it.  Singular. Sensational.)

We did a few things outside the beaten path, including going to one of the best kept secrets of tourist locations in London, Hampton Court Palace (where I went with Hannah 3 years ago and Molly last August). 
Here is me whipping dad at a game of fox and geese in the Royal Eating Hall, or something like that.

I also got mom to go into the center of the worlds oldest hedge maze, despite her claustrophobia. She did her best The King and I impression, keeping up a string of chatter and conversation while power walking through and asking if we were done yet.


Friday Cat and Jeff flew back to Boston, and Mom and Dad stayed on till Monday.  We spent the day quietly, mostly cleaning up the house as the first showing to perspective buyers was on Saturday.

On Saturday morning we took Mom and Dad to our fav local coffee spot, the Daily Grind and walked down to the rowing club and showed Dad all the renovations.  In the afternoon we saw the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Tate Modern.  I enjoyed it immensely, but then I nearly took a minor in Art History so I think it meant a lot more to me than the others, but we still had a nice day walking around the South Bank Area, exploring the cute shops and artistic venues.  We also took Mom and Dad to that classic English resturant, GBK or Gormet Burger Kitchen.  At least that went over well with dad!

Sunday we explored the medieval city of Kingston and their tiny farmer's market (and famous artwork of domino phone booths), but by the evening we were all worn out of traveling, and the boys played scrabble against each other on their devices while Mom and I watched Hey Cinderella!

 Mom and Dad left this morning, all in all I say it was a successful vacation.  From Mom's perspective it afforded her the rare opportunity to photograph all three of her children on the same continent at the same time!

 Look how thin we all look next to Cat!!  Check out my wild PJ's that mom brought me, they are flannel, surprisingly hard to come by in England.

 And here are all the Lindon's and "New Recruit" Lindons!  Still all able to fit on one couch, how much longer will we be able to say that?

Wooahhhh, we were all fine until Jumbo Cat sat down with her enormous pregnant belly!  Wave!! Whale!!!

Hope you are all enjoying May as much as I am, and I have a SECOND bank holiday in May to look forward to!

Cheers