A Fairly Fabulous Day

My lovely friend Caty and her husband Connor have been in London for the past year.  You might remember Caty from my post on Switzerland.  She was one of the fabulous SwissMisses.  She and Connor were getting ready to move back to the USA, so before they left we decided to have fun with a couple of photoshoots.  Caty is an amazing photographer.  We wanted to do something really girly, and I ask you, what is more girly than a Flower Crown Photoshoot? So we hoofed it over to Morrison's and about £20 later we emerged with a crap ton of flowers.  Caty could barely carry them all! We hiked up to Canizaro Park near Wimbledon Common.  I crafted Caty's crown and did her photos, she designed my crown and did all my photos.  And then we put the camera on a tripod and used my remote to do some group shots.  It took pretty much all afternoon, but it was such a good time!   Photocred for all the pics of me: Caty Gainer I love how this pictures of Caty turn

After Houston, we caught a plane to Utah.  Going home is great.  We get to see friends and family that we miss in England.  We eat all the food that we can't find in London (good Mexican), have late night campfires, make s'mores, and go shopping at all our old stores.  However, there is also a downside to going home: the dentist.  We still go to our Utah dentist because we love them, and they are great, but this last visit, I had to get a crown.  ... ... ... ... ... I felt like my mouth had betrayed me!  I take really good care of my teeth.  But I guess it's genetic?  That's what they said anyway.  So I went 3 different times to get things sorted.  I'm glad my US dentist could help me, but now I'm a bit obsessed with my teeth, like tons of brushing, flossing, mouth wash, oil pulling.  I'm becoming a crazy lady, but I do not want a repeat to last time. We always go stay with our friends Ali and Jon for a night.  We eat great food, play games and have a f

Twice a year we get to fly home.  Our semi-annual trip was approaching and we decided to include a quick stop to Houston to visit our friends Brendan and Tiffany.  They had come to London to spend Christmas, so it was our turn to visit.  We were so excited for some beach time and board game time! Porter loves reading comics to pass the time on the long air plane ride.  I actually think we are getting pretty good at long plane rides.  We flew Virgin Atlantic this time via Delta, and loved it!  Just FYI if you are looking to fly to Europe.  However, long flights are still long. One of the first things we did was go sailing!  Brendan and Tiffany are training to become pirates.  They had some pretty mean sailing skills. We were rained on pretty hard, so Tiff and I hid down below, while trying not to get sea sick. "A Beautiful Day for a Beautiful Sail" Porter and I snuck out to the bow of the boat for a fun Titanic moment and photo opp.

Porter's Dad, Kyle, told us he had bought tickets to visit us the last week in April and the first week of May.  He is the first of our parents to make it to the Motherland, so we were pretty excited to see him.  The morning he arrived we met our lovely friends: Tom, Vicki, and Susie for brunch. We have had a lot of company lately and have been traveling a lot, so we were very relieved when Kyle let us know that he was fine taking it easy.  We did a lot of hikes around the city and Wimbledon.  We ate lots of yummy food, played some music, visited some maritime museums and Kyle also did a bit of sailing in south west England around Plymouth. I took Kyle to an old bookstore.  He loved it, and I found some fun old sheet music. We, of course, had to do the walking tour around Big Ben, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, and Exhibition Row.  The walk is roughly 5 miles.  We also took the dogs, and they LOVED it!  However, the tube