I'm Back!

Well I have been a terrible blogger these past few weeks!! Sorry!

Since I have last posted LOTS and LOTS has happened! Andy was sent to Gibraltar, a tiny, tiny piece of land on the south of Spain owned by Britain. He will be there for three weeks for work. So I decided to stay in Horsham with his family. Worked perfectly. This way Louise and I have company and are not sitting alone in two different places twiddling our thumbs all day! Andy and I got here on Saturday October 3. We visited for a short bit with his Nan and the rest of his family before we were off to a pub to say congratulations to his friend on the birth of his first baby. Then off we went around to his friends Katie and Barry's house for chinese and Cranium! Girls vs boys and we killed them!! Andy may be perfect at most things but at board games I dominate!!!!! Then on Sunday he left until the end of October! Booooo!! But on the bright side I am going out to Gibraltar and Spain for five days on the 14th!

My few weeks at the Murdoch's has been fun and entertaining! On the first Tuesday I was there I went out for afternoon tea, my very first afternoon tea (how very English of me!), with Louise and her friends from teaching. As we went up to order, never having done this before, when asked what I would like to have I just followed suit and said, "tea"! Then asked what I wanted with my tea, not quite sure still what a scone is and wondering if the cheese one on display would be good with tea, (I am thinking gross!), followed with an American answer "Chocolate chip cookie please!" Wonder if I had said biscuit I might not have gotten such bizarre looks..... Apart from looking sooooo American as I ordered, my first tea experience was FAB! Louise's friends from work were an absolute riot!! I felt like I was back with my girls or my mom and her friends with the stories and gossip they told!! Pauline, Louise's good friend and teaching assistant, had me almost peeing in my pants when she told a story of a "friend" from years ago who got Deep Heat (or Icy Hot) in a very, very sensitive area while being "intimate" one night. I take it that it is a very uncomfortable thing for a man to have on his sensitive area! And as she said "That relationship didn't go very far after that".

The next day, a few other friends Louise works with came over for more tea. It really is shocking how much tea they drink over here (no wonder the Boston Tea Party was such an insult to them..... they worship this stuff!) and more pastries. I think by the time I am done here in Horsham I will have gained 10 ponds on tea, biscuits and pastries!! But I must say the pastries are pretty damn good!!

When the weekend rolled around I was getting super, super excited to go to Gibraltar and Spain! Only a few days left! All I could think about was seeing Andy, being in sunny warm Spain and drinking lots and lots of sangria! Hola Señor y Gracias!! Maybe I should have brushed up on that Spanish......