Oh no! Run everybody! She has more vacation pictures!

I promise only a few pictures will be posted; not all 77 that I've taken already.

This is a pub.

A real pub.

And I was so excited because something I've always wanted to do was visit a real English pub.

One of the business people that Hans is dealing with, got online and looked up Free House which is what real pubs are known as (?) and we found two. This one served food so that's why we chose it. I had venison and it was fabulous!!! There were real coal fireplaces in use and it was so nice to see people enjoying their meals while the family dog napped on their laps.

You won't see that in America.

Boats that are used as apartments are very commom. The bus we were on moved too quickly for me to get pictures of the flower pots, bicycles, even tables and chairs that people have scattered all over the tops of the boats just like it was a yard or a balcony.

This is one of many bike stores. Cambridge students are not allowed to have cars if they live within 5 miles of the university so therefor over 35,000 (!) bikes are used on a daily basis.

Check out the condition of the bike over the sign. Someone has a good sense of humor.

This is just one 'parking lot'.

I can't imagine trying to find my bike amongst all of these!

This sign was just too cute! I had to take a picture.

This is from the very fast bus tour that we took in London yesterday. Stephanie and I only had 4 hours in the city and we made the most of it. We may go back next week when we're in Oxford and really do it right. The bus tours are wonderful in that you can get off wherever you want and another bus will be along in 2o minutes and you just resume the tour. We would love to get off at Buckingham Palace (I just need to let the Queen know ahead of time so she can tidy up a bit and get our tea and crumpets ready), and take the Jack the Ripper tour, or visit the Tower of London. All of this can be done via bus and Thank God Stephanie figured out the subway maps so we got back to the train station in time to meet our poor working men who were waiting for us.

I liked this picture because fog gives pictures an intersting affect.

We arrived in Barcelona late last night and will be here for 3 days. Then we're off once again. However we will be back in England next week and Stephanie and I would love to spend a whole day and not just 4 hours in London. What a beautiful city and the citizens have been nothing but friendly and helpful!

Cambridge England today, hopefully pics tomorrow

Well, we've arrived in Cambridge, England.

But not without a few hitches.

Of course.

Let's see: I quit my job on the 31st of December in order to move to the Big City so that after over 4 and a half years, Hans and I could see each other more than once a week or so. But, Hans was notified in the middle of December that he was going to be sent abroad once a month for about 2 weeks at a time for most of 2009!

I kid you not!

So Hans said fine, he would go but he wanted me to be able to with him at times.

And that's why I'm here and not at home getting my house ready for sale. Last week I did get 2 out of 3 rooms painted and I packed up stuff for my sister to store at her house. But I'm not sure I understand why she and her husband showed up at my home with an SUV when she knew that in addition to cartons of Christmas decorations, pictures off of my walls, and kid's memorabilia, there was a grandfather clock being moved also!

An SUV!

Did everything fit? Of course not. Not even with my slightly deaf dad and his crazy retired friend (who goes everywhere with him) (and I told my sister that our dad DID NOT need to help) driving into my very soft yard in an effort to help, and getting every one of my orders confused! Even after pointing a million times to the taped up boxes all in a row, everyone was picking up everything and I'm surprised I didn't end up getting shoved into the back of the vehicle myself!

With a decades worth of dust from my basement, and paint fumes in my lungs I ended up at an Urgent Care on the morning of departure! Thank God I was given cough syrup with codeine or I would have been more irritating than the toddler, who, right behind us, screamed nonstop or the overgrown 2o-something kid in front of us who flung himself against his seat with wild abandon for the entire 7 hour trans Atlantic crossing.

Our plane from the Big City to Newark was delayed and while we were lucky that we didn't miss our connecting flight, we were unlucky enough to arrive just minutes after every bar in the airport was closed! Ask my tired feet how I know this!

Another business associate and his wife are along for the trip, however they took a different flight and even though we should have hooked up at Heathrow in order to travel to Cambridge together it didn't happen that way. Luckily they found their way to the hotel and we met up at breakfast this morning.

Today, while the gentlemen work, we ladies are going to hopefully take a double-decker bus ride around Cambridge and I do hope to get some pictures.

Tomorrow we take an early train into London where we will get in a little bit of sight seeing before we fly off to Barcelona.