June 2011

Game, Set, Match! Wimbledon 2011

June 26, 2011

Our day at Wimbledon this week was hands-down my favorite day out in London to date. Even though I am not a huge tennis enthusiast, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate in this quintessential sporting event. A mere 6 miles south of central London, Wimbledon is a popular suburb of the city, but [...]

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Thanks Mom!

June 21, 2011

Guess what I found in the mail room today! CARE PACKAGE! I’ve blogged before about the thrill of receiving care packages from home and tips on making really stand-out ones.  I was honestly a bit worried that our parents would read this blog and think that we’d adjusted so well that we no longer really needed [...]

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European Bucket List

June 19, 2011

Maybe it’s my looming 32nd birthday (ouch!) that’s making me feel old and fuddy-duddy, but  I admit that I need a reboot on my expat experience. Most of the time I am thrilled that we’re fully settled in and acclimated. No more tearful episodes over bank cards, no more trips to IKEA to furnish a [...]

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Fun on the Interwebs

June 9, 2011

David boasts that he reads over 1,000 articles a week in his Google Reader. (Note: For those of you who subscribe to a lot of feeds, I argue that you don’t actually read all of the articles, but click through the titles and read a much smaller percentage. But I digress.) While reading all of [...]

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Polo in the Park

June 5, 2011

Last July, I wrote a post lamenting that David and I did not take advantage of all the events in June in London. Honestly, most of last summer passed in a blur as our only true holiday was our trip to the States to collect Sammy the cat. With all of the adjustments of the [...]

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