Day 159: Stratford

Spent the day in Stratford, one of my favorite places. We got to see Anne Hathaway's (Shakespeare's wife's) cottage just minutes before it closed for the day.

Day 158: Pond

Today we got to go see my duck pond, where I have been happily feeding bread crumbs to ducks since I was a wee one. Sadly there were no ducks today, but we still had fun.

Day 157: Drive

We spent Boxing Day driving from Orpington to Redditch, which was gorgeous. I took lots of pictures out the window.

Day 156: Christmas

Tim enjoying his Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cream. Happy Christmas!

Day 155: Hever

Today we took Tim to Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn's childhood home. He is loving all the English history. It was an awesome day.

Day 154: Chippy

Today Tim got his first taste of English fish & chips. He loved it!

Day 153: Orpington

Today Tim and I took a walk through the park near my Aunt's house, and then up and down the high street. I love England!

Day 152: Cake

We made it to my Aunty's house in Orpington - she has been busy cooking all week for us.

Day 151: Airport

I only managed to get a quick photo on my phone the day we were traveling to London. Amazingly all of us made it to Heathrow with no problems. Tim got on the only flight going out of Helsinki and met us at our gate. It was magical.

While we were sitting at our gate in Houston, a lady with a tiny little dog sat down next to us. My mom started chatting with her and realized she had accidentally brought two dog biscuits in her jacket pocket (they were for our dogs, who, when they realized they were being boarded, were not interested). Instead of throwing them away, she was able to give them to the tiny little thing that was freaking out about being carried around in a bag.

Day 150: Suitcase II

Off to England! We're hoping Heathrow can de-ice itself by tomorrow evening, but I'm expecting some delays. Isn't my Nanny's old suitcase just adorable?

Day 149: Puppies

Tonight is our last night with the puppies before we have to take them to the kennel in the morning. They know something's up - they're being extra sweet and snuggly.

Day 148: Tree IV

My love of winter trees inevitably led me down to the giant tree in McBaine. Does anyone else just call it Big Tree?

Day 147: Cuteness

I played around with my flash tonight and was able to get some cute snapshots of Mom and Trevor. I swear he knows how to smile for the camera!

(Happy birthday, Mike!)

Day 146: Gerbes

I've been wanting to get a photo of the Christmas lights in the Gerbes parking lot, but I was too cold and lazy to get out of my car. I need to work on this.

Day 145: Drive

I'm not going to say I took this photo while driving...but I'm not going to say I didn't.

Day 144: Winter

As I said - completely obsessed.

Day 143: Moon

I can't stand this cold weather, but I am obsessed with the bare branches on the trees. I can't stop taking pictures of them!

Day 142: ThanksHalloweeMas

Saturday marked the first annual ThanksHalloweeMas celebration. Since my friends and I didn't get to celebrate Thanksgiving, Halloween, or Christmas (or really New Year's, either) together, we combined them all into one epic party. Halloween was really underrepresented, which I hope to change next year by showing up in costume.

Day 141: Lights

Friday was Thankshalloweemas Eve, which is traditionally spent decorating Megan's Christmas tree. By traditionally, I mean we made it a tradition on Friday :)

Day 140: Mike

This might be the greatest hat I have ever seen. Internet, meet my brother.

139: Traveler II

Naha wins for prettiest airport view. This is what Tim and I got to look at while we had breakfast. I will miss the ocean.


36 hours later, when I finally got home, it was still Wednesday (time travel is weird). Trevor was happy to see me.

Day 138: Suitcase

Ugh. I hate packing.

Day 137: Pedi III

My slightly Christmas-y pedicure from Cocoks! This one will have to tie me over until March.

Day 136: Splash

Went to Cocoks today, and got some shots of the seawall after my awesome pedicure.

Day 135: Pink II

I love these little pink flowers!

Day 134: Boots

Too bad my camera can't capture smell. Yikes.

Day 133: Dinner II

Turkey burger on wheat bun, pepperjack cheese, spinach, red onion. YES.

P.S. Thanks, everyone, for the sweet comments yesterday!

Day 132: Abstract

I was going to take a photo of the cookies I just made, but they're not very pretty. They taste like cookies though, so...win.