Sunday, May 31, 2009

Stroller aka "The Minivan"



In the past few weeks, it has occurred to me how our stroller has transformed itself into my new van. Living in a city, we don't have a need for personal vehicles, choosing instead to walk and use public transportation. When we had a car, the stroller spent most of its time folded up in the back of the van. Now, it's always ready to go at a moments' notice, loaded up with blankets, water, diaper bag, scooter, and whatever else we could possibly need.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Natural History Museum


We visited the Natural History Museum in London on Sunday. It was the second visit for the boys and Bryan, my first. They have a very cool dinosaur section, filled with bones and even dinosaur robots. Christian and I saw the T-Rex robot.

American food store in London? in The AnswerBank: Food & Drink

American food store in London? in The AnswerBank: Food & Drink
Look, they sell American food. One store even sells Zatarain's jambalaya mix. Both sell Kraft macaroni and cheese. It's amazing the foods you miss! Now, if I could only find a place that sells KC Masterpiece Barbeque Sauce.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Lewis Family Arrives


We made it! We arrived in London today after a long nine hour flight from Houston. The funniest part of the trip has been the luggage. Including three for my mother, we had thirteen checked items, plus an additional two pilot cases, two purses, one diaper bag, one car seat, one stroller, one laptop overnight bag, oh, and a St Martin's backpack. I didn't figure it was that much stuff since it was all of the boys' clothing and what we'd need for the next month. This picture is the cart at New Orleans. In London, we couldn't find a porter so had to load up two trolley cars, strap Jacob in his car seat strapped onto a big suitcase, and make our way to our drivers. Our stuff barely fit into the two Volvo wagons waiting for us. Once we arrived at our temporary accomodations, we found that we had to drag all of our stuff into one lift, go up four flights, go down a long hallway with doors at both ends, go into a second lift and finally, walk down a short hallway to the flat. My next project is figuring out how we are going to move into our permanent accomodations with our belongings.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

All Packed Up


Yesterday and today were packing days. Our household shipments were packed up today--The sea freight went into a 40 foot shipping container. It was crammed full with all of our stuff in there. We also had items packed up for air freight. The allowance for air freight is much smaller than sea and its contents were made up of toys, high chairs, strollers, and more toys. We packed so many toys, some of the boxes were singing. With the house packed up, the cars sold, and our suitcases packed, we are ready to move to London!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

With the delay in our move, we were able to spend Easter in New Orleans. Bryan's mom came to New Orleans to buy the van and to spend the holiday with us. On Saturday, Bryan and I ran the Crescent City Classic 10 K and spent the rest of the day bouncing in a Spiderman bouncy house and eating crawfish. On Sunday, we went to church services at Rayne Memorial UMC and then had breakfast at Panola Street Cafe. It was like old home week, going to Rayne and then eating at the neighborhood restaurant. We had a wonderful weekend.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Mardi Gras 2009


We celebrated our tenth (and for now, last) Mardi Gras this weekend. It's almost Wednesday and the weekend is just now over for us. We had lots of out of town guests who we took to see Endymion, Thoth, Mid-City, Bacchus, Orpheus, Rex, and the truck parades. We had our ladder, food, and chairs set up on the neutral ground. I am now exhausted but know that I'll miss it next year. I will have to see about shipping a king cake to us in London. The best ones are from Dianne Randazzo's in Harahan.