Inside the Cathedral

Canturbury

Canturbury Cathedral

An old building in Canturbury

An old street in Canterbury

Me and my bro

Nick opening his christmas presents

Mr Breen taking a picture of me taking a picture

Kevin Playing Drums

Christmas 2007 in America: Sarah's side of the story

Hi, everyone! We just got back from our Christmas trip to visit family and friends in America, and I gotta tell ya, it was quite the adventure. Seeing family and friends was terrific, and I'm missing family right now. (Incidentally, it's 10:30pm and Corey's making cookies...I would say we have a bit of jet lag! So sorry if this blog entry rambles a bit or doesn't make sense in places.) But, it was an adventure. First of all, my prayers for snow were answered, as there was a really big snow storm on the day we landed in Boston, and our normal 1 hour drive back to our parents took us SIX. It was amazing. Then another storm hit a few days later. It was really beautiful, though, and I love snow and was happy to have it since we don't see snow in London. Then...Corey got a cold. Then I caught his cold. That was a fun week. Then...Corey got sicker than I've ever seen him in his life with a stomach bug for Christmas and benevolently shared a milder version with me. Another fun couple of days. (Many thanks to both sets of parents who so kindly took care of us for both illnesses.) That brings us to the end of the trip.

In between sickenesses and snow, however, we managed to squeeze in time with family and a few friends and some shopping. And Christmas with family was so nice this year. (Mmmm...that cookie was good!)

So take a peak at our photos, and thanks to everyone we got to see and to our parents who let us live with them for a few weeks. We love you guys so much! But we may visit in the summer next time, when nobody's sick and our Anglicized immune systems won't take a beating ;-)!

Love, Sarah (and Corey)

PS...Corey should be posting his side of the story soon, so be on the look out!

 

I got the snow I prayed for! Here is the accumulation of 2 big storms we got while there.

 

 

In between sicknesses, Corey managed to get in an ice hockey game that his little brother was playing defense at.

 

Christmas Eve at Corey's parents. Corey and I were both sick with a lovely stomach bug for Christmas, so I have mixed emotions when I see this picture. You may say it brings those queasy feelings back :-/. But not because of family! Just the bug.

 

Christmas day started out at my parents in the morning...no, wait! It started out with Corey's little brother getting us out of bed at 6:30 in the morning to open presents and get videotaped in our 'jammies! No pictures of that, thank goodness!

 

Trifle doesn't happen everyday in America. This is big.

 

The coolest kid around...

 

Kevin's got luggage to come to London!