One more present Gretchen got for her birthday was a Skype phone, which means that we don't need to have the computer on to receive Skype calls anymore! Additonally I got her a normal US phone number (won't post it here, but let us know if you'd like it) so that anyone can ring us from their home or cell phones by using a standard US landline number and transparently it gets routed through to our Skype phone here in England! Which makes it much easier for people who don't have Skype to keep in touch.
Isn't technology crazy!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
London calling
As you'll all be aware Gretchen hit a birthday milestone this past week...yes the dreaded 3-0. To celebrate I decided to take her away from it all for a weekend in the bright lights of London town. I booked a show in the West end, and we saw the sights - well as many as we could in 3 days, London is a rather big city you know!
We did the history thing (as London has been around since the Romans) and saw the Tower of London, we went to Greenwich to see the prime meridian, and took in various museums at a far too dizzying pace...We saw Spamalot in the West End, and frequented various pubs, some of which had been standing since the 1600s! We walked around the streets visiting Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral, the houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey...and went shopping in various very expensive stores including Harrods, Fortnum and Masons, and a Chocolatier to the Queen no less.
Here's some photos - http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mattbinns/London#
So all-in-all a great trip to the capital!!
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