Hallows Eve

This year Halloween was a little bit different from last year, we went a bit more traditional. I think Brody had a lot of fun, and he really liked going as Iron man. The kids were exhausted after about 30 minutes, they were ready to head back because they were getting tired, we managed to keep them out about an hour. When I was growing up we went from one street to the next and one neighborhood to the next. I remember that my mom and us kids would stay out for about 2 or 3 hours getting candy and we only came home once our bags were full. We used to get fruit from some of the neighbors, we also ended up with about 4 or 5 popcorn balls, and at least 2 candy apples which were my favorite.

 

 

A few days before Halloween we went to my friend Leaj's house to paint and carve pumpkins. Our family chose to paint instead of carve and Brody did a good a job on his football pumpkin.

Sydney painted Edward Cullen vampire pumpkin with glitter. She should have done a tutorial on this, hmmm.

My friend Carly's daughter went as Princess Peach and her little brother was Luigi.

Sydney kept all the kids in line for us and we didn't have to do much except count them to make sure they were all there.

 

 

 I'm really going to miss her next year, when she won't be around for the holidays as much.

Mildenhall, uk

We finally arrived in England after an exhausting flight. We sat on the plane for 2 hours before it took off. And thankfully, we had someone pick us up at the airport. I believe Sydney slept for 12 hours straight when we finally got to our room.  It took the rest of us, about 3 days to get caught up on our sleep.

England's roads are scary and the weather is unpredictable you have winter weather in the morning, spring at noon, summer in the afternoon, maybe some rain and then it feels like fall at night.

We found out  quickly that the homes are small, there are no closets except in the newer homes. I found some beautiful English homes with the Ivy hanging on them and large wooden beams inside but the energy rating on them was terrible. I'm cold enough now, I don't want to freeze to death in the winter.

My pictures are not that great I didn't feel like tweaking them but they will do.

The roads are very narrow and there are no shoulders. England has 3 speed limits. 30 mph in the villages, 60mph is the national speed limit, and 70 mph on the larger roads.

This is a small village called Mildenhall. It has a swimming pool, supermarket, schools and market day every Friday.

 

 



 

 

We would be so lost without our GPS. Funny thing about the GPS you don't generally enter the street name but the postal code. The GPS will also tell you if there is a traffic camera. There are more traffic camera's in England than any other country.

 

 

 

Mildenhall is famous for the discovery of the Mildenhall Treasure in 1942. The treasure was a hoard of Roman silver objects buried in the 4th century. In 1946 the discovery was made public and the treasure was acquired by the British Museum.

This is St Mary's church and it's the largest church in the area where we live. The church is also the tallest building in Mildenhall and it catches your eye immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We ate a small pub on this street and the food was delicious. American's eat a lot different from the Brit's, we ate and left in about 1 hour and 30 mins total time which is pretty fast. The British order their food and have some wine while they wait, then they eat very slowly, and then order tea and dessert and the whole process takes about 2 to 3 hours.

 This is Market Cross and the market takes place here every Friday since the 1400's.