Family

The Story of The Comic Strip That Defined The Last Decade

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One day over the holiday break we took the girls to a Planetarium show and the Cutty Sark in Grenwitch. They always enjoy the Royal Museums Greenwich. We only buy a few memberships each year.  This is one of them.  It by far pays for itself more than any other. I think we got triple our moneys worth if we were to have paid full price each of the times we went to the Maritime Museum, planetarium show or Cutty Sark.

Since we went during a school break there was an arts and craft activity on at Cutty Sark. M and I grabbed some coffee while we assumed the girls would be working on a project. When I walked over to the activity area with the coffee M was the only person working on a project.

I am not sure what the original project however they had paper with three comic strip boxes. In them she drew a comic of her and I meeting, getting married, and as we were today with the girls. She is very creative and artistic unlike myself. I thought the comic strip was so awesome. It is now the banner on this site.

4th of July BBQ London Style

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M originally had plans for last night. She changed them / they got moved. That gave her an opportunity to BBQ. This was a first for her. We do not have a fancy BBQ grill however that didn’t stop my superstar M. For under £3 she picked up a one time use BBQ thing and grilled up hot dogs and hamburgers.

The girls had a play date and hung by the pool in the garden and then had BBQ. For desert M even had a red, white, & blue (strawberry, whipped cream, & blueberry) desert with ice cream. With the perfect weather this was an unexpected fantastic evening with the family. And if you look close enough you can see the Batman plate I used (thanks to A for liking DC comics)

I am glad that even with 30 minute delay on the Tube i was able to home just in time for the start of the grilling.

Beach Day

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Went to moms beach club with MC, mom, Carrie, Zach an Lexi.  Morgan was at camp.  The entire stein clan was also there.  MC and I got to lounge around in the pool a bit.  After that we relaxed in the sun, well out in the son under some shade.  Then we went to the ocean and hung with my mom and Lexi then back to the chairs to relax.  Generally restful day.

After the beach we went to dinner at mother Kelly’s afterward.  Zach wasn’t feeling well but good dinner otherwise.  Mom picked us up and took us home!

Oddly I starts coughing afterward.  I am not sure if it was an allergy or not.

The Wedding

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Yesterday was my cousin’s wedding. Family get togethers are always interesting. This one was fun, but thankfully on the less interesting side. I ended up not drinking since I was taking migraine medicine. I was stupid and didn’t eat lunch since I was waiting for my dad to come pick me up from home. He got tied up in traffic for over an hour and a half and then it took us another hour plus to get from my house to his. That meant it was around 3:30PM by the time I ate anything all day. That is a big no no for me. I took two different migraine medications I have before I started feeling better. Thankfully by the time I was at the wedding I was feeling ok.

My sister didn’t go to the wedding since my nephew was sick all week, and my niece was sick earlier in the week. That meant I thought i was sitting alone at a table with my grandmother. I love her, but she is not always the most fun conversation. I was surprised to find my cousin’s Synde & Wayne sitting with me. Their kids also ended up with us so I was not alone. I had a good time. The food was decent. I looked fantastic in my suit, but I always say I clean up nicely.

I stayed over at my parents house since it was really late by the time we got out of the wedding. As family get togethers go, this was a good one!

This morning my dad took me home, but not before I snagged his old computer that he had in his closet and a bunch of slides and photos my mom had. I am on a project to have all my families photos and slides scanned into the computer. My dad has been slow with scanning the slides so i decided to take them and 2 box’s of photos with me. Once I get back the VHS tapes from the conversion place I will send in the slides and some photos. The computer is my dad’s old one that he stopped using because the video card is messed up. He hasn’t used it since January and I totally forgot he was holding on to it so I could take it and maybe do something with it.

Once I got home I napped for a few hours since sleeping on the air mattress at my parents isn’t the most comfortable place to sleep. At least there was AC!