Exercise

This is the distance I had to walk yesterday, due to my car breaking down...for the third time! Time to take the car to a real mechanic! Since the place on base has screwed me out of a lot of money, we're going to try to file a claim against them. I had to walk about 2 miles to get back to my house. When I got home my foot was bleeding because I had to walk in thorns and thistles. But then I remembered that Ben and Ryan were going to be walking 20 miles...and I didn't feel so bad! 

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Car fun continued

We went to IKEA with our friends, Michael and Laura! Ben and I had never been to an IKEA before and we were very excited to go. Benjamin was having way too much fun or maybe he was just taking a break, either way we had a great day with some great friends. 

We ended up buying an accent table, wine rack and mirror for our bedroom. I'll post pictures of that later.

More car fun! *rolls eyes*

Ben hit another curb and the tire blew out!

We fixed the tire that night and in the morning, when it was time to get Ben to the airport, the car wouldn't start. We had a new battery but could figure out how to change it due to some heavy duty bolts holding it in place. Needless to say, Ben missed the bus and I had to drive him all the way to Heathrow. 

Happy 100th post!

Valentine's Day 2003

Valentine's Day 2010

For Valentine's Day, we decided to go to London to see the National History Museum and the Winston Churchill Museum and War Cabinet Rooms. For breakfast, I made some yummy pumpkin scones my mom bought and shipped us! They were delicious!

We went to start Ben's car and of course it wouldn't start, so we had to jump start the car. This is just not our week with cars! Now, take a good look at this picture and what do you notice about the car on the left. The battery to my car is located in the trunk. Luckily, we knew this from a previous experience. One day my car wouldn't start and it look us a while of searching and checking the internet until we finally figured it out. Crazy BMW!

We got the car started and were finally on our way to London. We checked into the hotel and went to the National History Museum. Here it is from the outside. 

This museum was PACKED!! We really weren't too sure why this museum was so swamped but we pushed ahead anyway. We saw dinosaur fossils, pretty much the highlight of the museum. 

This was an amazing animatronic T-Rex dinosaur!

Here is Ben with a giant sloth, this thing is massive:

Look closely and you can see something very scary in the background :)

The next day we got some breakfast at our favorite pasty shop. A pigeon flew in and wanted some crumbs. The place is THAT good...even the animals want some.

We went to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. This museum was very interesting!

Here I am as we were waiting for the Underground. We also saw a tiny mouse!!

Happy 100th post!!!

Car fun!

Yesterday, I went to pick Benjamin up from the airport! We were so excited to get on the road, because Ben was ready to get home after a long day of traveling, almost missing his plane, etc. Not 5 minutes into our journey home and the car decided it didn't want to work again. Here's my car getting towed away :( Let's see what's wrong with it THIS time.