Highlights of the March Get-A-Way to England

I arrived at 6:40 am last Friday in Heathrow Airport.   The flight across the pond wasn’t remarkable, really, except for the usual “Are we there yet?” voices playing in my head.   3 or 4 hours into the flight, I am silently urging the tail wind on… “Push, dammit, push!”

I envision Ian standing there in the airport.  I know he’ll be there at least an hour early.  Waiting.

The plane landed unexpectedly.   It was because I was zoned out when we got near Heathrow and I didn’t realize we were THAT close to the ground.   This is a little frightening, really.   Big noise; not expecting to be that chose to the ground…

We went home and took shower, took a nap, went out to eat at a lovely Indian/Mexican/Thai restaurant in the Theater District.    We trekked through the MK mall, where the jet lag started to upset my stomach.   We went home to lounge around for awhile and then, much later, ate curry and watched a Greek film.

The next day, after a walk in the market and Ian shoving me out of the market (I was in shopping mode), we headed to St. Ives to visit Jane and Fletch.   Lovely conversation, watching rugby at the pub, eating chinese, drinking Guiness and random drinks along with way, and talking about the future ensued.

In the morning, Ian and I woke up to a full English Breakfast (quite yummy… even the blood pudding) which was ready to eat (this is excellent service, innit?)    Then it was off to see Ian’s mum, sister and nephew for mum’s day.  We bought plants and a stuffed fox and had a really nice lunch.   I love spending time with Ian’s family.

Then, it was off to Warwick to see a castle and listen to poets do their thing.  It was fun to meet the poets finally.  They’re a fun group of people, really and I was so excited to be watching them in person!  There were moments of laughter and uncertainty (Mark wrote a new poem which we thought he might strip completely down for).  lol  We drove Danni home and I listened to poets talk about their art form, which was quite interesting.   Everyone did such a wonderful job presenting their poems.

Monday was spent mostly lounging around, after having driven all over England the day before.

Tuesday, it was out to Cromer after picking up Ian’s dad and girlfriend.   We had a fab time wandering through shops and going down to the sea.    The North Sea is so much COLDER than any sea I’ve been around, and quite rocky.   I loved it!   We had fish and chips, which were wonderful, and a dressed crab which was really fresh and yummy.

Then it was off to a proper English pub to hear Darren’s band play.    It was fun to meet Ian’s close friend an

the band was excellent.   And wine was good.   It had been ages since I’d been in a pub listening to bands.   It was SO much fun!

Wednesday, we took off to Jane’s house for several hours just for a chat, some biscuits and gravy and some hamster annoyance (this is a sport, people).

Thursday, day of photocopying stuff, visiting Willin Lake and playing like kids in the playground and laughing SO hard as we whirled around on the playground equipment.