Friday, August 21, 2009

One year down!!!!!

As you can tell from our countdown, Ryan is officially on the downhill slide! Yesterday was his one year mark out in the mission field! Only 1 more Thanksgiving, Christmas (all the major holidays)!

We love Ryan and are so proud of him and the choice that he made to serve a mission! Ryan is currently serving in Burlington, Kentucky and is loving it! The only thing he wants is letters, so write him!

Ryan's address is:
1736 Tanglewood CT #2
Burlington, KY 41005

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Buckingham Palace, Abbey Road and Night shots


This is the security around the tops of the fence around Buckingham Palace... they mean serious business about security from keeping intruders out!
On the lawn across from the palace, you'll see the Virgin Records Lifeflight!! While in London, 2 people sadly died under the trains in the Tube. This is the helicopter guys waiting for action, notice how prepared they are, maybe they even play some musak to the patients to make them feel at ease, courtesy of the Virgin Records company.
Outside the gates of the palace
The front of Buckingham, notice the flag... it means the Queen was in the palace too. Totally was in the same building as the Queen. She was in hiding though.


This is the group of girls pretending to be the Beatles on the crosswalk for their album cover.
Signing Abbey Lane wall
Sherlock Holmes in the Tube station!

Love the phone booths
Big Ben!
The London Eye



Oh, and the queen felt bad that she dogged us at the Palace, so she stopped by the flat... to hang out with Susie!

August 3, 2009 Dingle Ireland and driving through Connor's Pass

So this is a bit hard to see here, but... this is our Irish rainbow!! I hoped to see one and totally did! It was beautiful to see, we all thought it was our Luck that brought it...oh and it was right after stopping for cows on the road, I felt like I was in Made of Honor only without the hot guy to rescue us.
yeah, I'm a PRO on the wrong side now
You can't tell, but these sheep are spraypainted!
A view from the Connor Pass road




After coming out of Connor Pass, we ran into this familiar named sign...
Dingle...
This is for my mom...


This is me, standing in Flaherty's pub in Dingle

Cliffs of Moher in Ireland! Better Late than Never! August 2, 2009

These are the Cliffs of Moher...



Scarrrry !!








Ummm... this is my rental car! Totally drove a BMW on the wrong side of the road. I got a free upgrade and could choose any car between a BMW, Mercedes and a Hyundai Santa Fe (I chose the BMW because it already had a scratch and why on Earth would I choose a Hyundai over a BMW?!)
We went on a car ferry boat and this is the view from the deck...