A Fairly Fabulous Day

First off, isn't this cross stitch the cutest thing EVER?!  My super talented friend Ali made this for a going away/house warming gift for us.  I just can't even get over it.  She even put in a tardis.  It's in our living room and I look at it every day so I thought I would share it with you.  If you are a cross stitcher, the base for this pattern comes from Satsuma Street .  Head over and check our her fab designs. Now for the Food....honestly a lot is still the same.  Packaging is smaller, food is overall more expensive and it doesn't last very long.  England has this crazy idea that putting chemicals in food to make it have a shelf life of 10+ years is maybe bad for us.  Thus the food is super fresh and tastes delicious.  The only drawback is that I have to head to the grocery store every other day or so.  While at the store I have run into some funny items I thought I would share: Banana Milk Salad Cream (what i...

The Gates leading into Hampton Court  Hampton Court Palace is a beautiful Tudor palace that is super close to our house.  I didn't even realize it was there till I looked at the map a few weeks ago and was like, "Holy Cow!, there is a palace in our back yard!"  So we jumped on a train and headed out. Getting closer....it was a long walk from the road. The guardians that wait at the front gate.  I love all the unicorns, dragons, and lions they have on everything. Made it to the entrance! The fireplaces were huge!!! The beds were epic as well. And one of my favorite places, the chocolate kitchen.  This is a special place where the coco beans were roasted and processed into drinking chocolate for the king. These little guys were giving a demonstration of how to process the beans, and letting people taste them as well.  The beans were pretty gross.  It reminded me of when I was little, my mom had a big b...

Last month, Porter and I visited Kew Gardens .  If you have never been, you need to make it a priority on your next trip to London.  Porter didn't think much of it at first and quite frankly, I had under estimated it.  We were sitting around on a Saturday trying to figure out what to do, so I grabbed my Rick Steve's London guide and saw Kew as one of those attractions that was pretty high up on the must see list.  So I told Porter we were going to the Gardens that afternoon.  And he was like "£15 per person to visit a garden?!?!"  However, when we arrived and realized it's much more than a garden, so we were okay with the price tag. Kew is a huge botanical garden with plants from all of the world.  They also do a ton of conservation work.  So this post is basically pictures of all the beautiful sites we saw at the gardens.  And we didn't even make it through half of the gardens in this day.  Kew really is epic. The Japanese Garden ...