Back by popular demand....

• Sorry friends! It has been a long time! I am now back on a regiment of writing everyday! Also something is all wonky (new British lingo) with the spacing on the blog so I am using bullets instead of paragraphs!


• The gang is changing, Bill is traveling A LOT! I did get the new job and LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Everyone is older (note the markee up top) With the big 21 for Meagan, she wanted to go to where else... London. What no Vegas? Booze it up... she was determined to booze it up and go to London anyway. Bill thought this would be a more cost effective way but of course in the normal Charles fashion...we couldn't let that happen.


• It all started when he asked Meagan to go and he would time it with one of his trips. So she was talking about it and then it just so happen that I kept saying all the fun stuff "WE" could do... oh wait I wasn't invited! lol I didn't know that! And really Meagan would have much much more fun with me. So add me to the list as well.... Then about a month before we are ready to go Meagan happens to mention that maybe Will should go because he normally goes with us on the vacations and really it wouldn't be as much fun without him... and oh by the way I think he is a little sad that he doesn't get to go too. Long story short Bill feels guilty and invites him BEFORE booking his ticket. Well this throws a HUGE wrench into the plan because you can't just change the name on the ticket (thanks a lot Bin Laden) So the only way we can go is to change Bill and Will's ticket to going on a separate plane and Meagan and I going on another one.


• Bad news is that Meagan and I had to go to the airport WAY early (had to stay in that presidents lounge) Meagan and I had good seats and were of course drinking, me more than her! Mimosas' anyone? Meagan almost spilled her drink on several people but it was all okay! She didn't get the least bit tipsy she is just clumsy. Most of the "big drinking" trip was Meagan ordering things and Will finishing them. He was lit for a lot of the time and we had to cut him off when he began an inappropriate discussion in the cab! Meagan and I were mouthing at him to stop, to which he said... "What, I can't here you!" He also gave us the rules to beer pong,(Mom and Donna seem to know this game too) and told us not to worry about him at Texas A&M because he is usually the DD. Anyone pick up the usually ?!?....


• Starting in Windsor and continuing onto every tourist site we went to, we seem to be on a tour with school groups.. kindergartners at Windsor, and bigger at every location from the Tower of London to St. Paul's Cathedral. They were all in matching uniforms all dressed in suit jackets, so it felt like you were being attack by an entire troop everywhere you went. Every day we would say, oh today must be field trip day! Then the next day, Oh today must be field trip day! We all know Bill likes neither high pitch kids voices nor crowds! The kids and I thought they were cute! All dressed in suit jackets talking all British! They seems to be drawn to Bill. He and I would walk to a spot and it would be all quite then...."OHHHH look there is a cannon, a baby cannon". It sounded like being in Hogwarts with Harry Potter.


• Speaking of Harry Potter, we did indeed get Bill to platform 9 3/4. He was going to send us alone but no I dragged him. We go all the way on the "tube" to King's cross, walk right up to platform 9. When we see the big gates. You need to have a ticket to get onto the platform! A ticket... hmmm now what. Meagan and I hem and haw about what to do for a while, when I decide the only thing to do is to walk up to the ticket person. The big discussion was that we didn't want to look like tourist! If you can imagine... I kid you not I didn't even get a word out when he said in the British accident "Platform 9 3/4 is around the corner down the platform to the left." Ohhhh thank you, what would possibly make you think I would like Harry Potter!!! Could it be... I don't know the fact that none of us have bag, we have 2 huge cameras between 4 people. We scream American with Will in his Texas A&M water polo shirt! Yes, I guess so. So here we go, all excited. Laughing hysterically in the train station. Bill was completely over it by now, he just wanted to go eat. We go down and of course run into all the other Americans abroad! Everyone was in a line for....wait for it....a poster of a brick wall. This poster did have a trolley halfway through the wall but it looked really really fake. So we (and all the others) are in line waiting on our turn. We run up and act like we are pushing it and looking at Bill shot a pic of all of us but refused to take his picture (Sorry Gracie!). Unfortunately Meagan will have to photo shop the white background wall out and try to make it look more realistic but I thought it was so much fun. Check one off the bucket list!


• Tomorrow I will tell you about how I nearly DIED at St. Paul's Cathedral. Or how I like to think about it Notre Dame take 2!