Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Saturday we took the train to York. Here's the view walking into the city from the train station...
England has had a lot of rain these past few weeks and the roads and houses along the river were all flooded...
York is home to the National Railroad Museum. It's the largest railroad museum in the world and it's free. Poppop would love it here, you could easily spend several days looking at everything. I took some photos, but it was kind of dark inside, so most of them didn't really turn out.
The other two big attractions in York were Clifford's Tower...
And the York Minster, the second largest Church of England cathedral (after Westminster Abbey)
PK and I climbed the 250 steps to the top for a great view, but it was getting dark, so my photos aren't the best...this photo was taken halfway up...
Sunday, December 6, 2009
This is a weird statue of a little boy peeing. It's really famous and they change his outfit at different times of the year. Supposedly this outfit was special for some holiday that they were celebrating the week that we were there...
The waffles were amazing! I wish I could have brought some back for everyone to try...
This is the Belgium Royal Palace...
Here is the main cathedral in the city, St Michaels...
Friday, November 27, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving! Day 1 of our roadtrip took us down the coast through Monterey and Big Sur. We saw lots of pretty coastline...
and stopped at a beach with elephant seals!
...and a drunk curlew!
Hope you're all having a great holiday...we'll post more pictures soon!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I can't wait until we're all together for Christmas!! I thought I'd post a few more photos of our floor project. Jason and Ariel finished everything this week except for the trim work, but that should be done by the time I get back from Europe next weekend...
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The floor project continued last night. Jason and Ariel prepped the living room with paper and chalk lines to mark where the staples will need to go in when they start laying the wood on Sunday...
Thursday, November 19, 2009
It's a rainy November night and Jason and I have begun our hardwood floor project! First step: pull up that pink carpet. Of course we have to work at night after work, and there are no lights in our living room yet, so it's quite difficult to see. But luckily Jason's dad let us borrow this beautiful green lamp which we have proudly displayed in our front window...not because that's where it would be up and out of the way and still give us the best light...but because we wanted all of our neighbors to see how classy we are...
The hardwood floors won't be laid down until this weekend, but here's a peak at how we've progressed so far in the living room...
I'll post more on Sunday when the floors are in!!