I'm back from my 2.5 week sojourn to the mother country (England), and I'm just now surfing my mail, recovering from jet lag, and catching up on all the gossip I missed in the last few weeks! Hope you are all well and happy...

I'm sure I'm going to have a flurry of updating activity here at LFM, so hang on to your RSS feeds!

Things I learned while in England:

• Your iPod can double as a mirror when sitting in a cramped airplane seat.
• Drinks of any kind in England come in two sizes: shot glass, or double shot glass.
• Showers in England come in two sizes: packing crate, or deluxe packing crate.
• Driving on narrow English side streets. Not hot.
  
• People who park in said narrow English side streets. Decidedly not hot.
• Fish and chips, curry and lamb ALL taste better on that side of the pond.
• Shandys rule.
• Nikes are a must.
• Wales is more beautiful than I ever imagined.
• It isn't possible to go back in time like Claire did in Outlander just by closing your eyes and picturing Jamie while standing in front of Stonehenge. I know. I tried.
• I could spend all day in Sainsbury's.
• The London Eye is, like, really tall. But really cool. *big proud grin*
• It annoys my dad when I take too many pictures.
• Listening to Nine Inch Nails while sitting on the beach smoking a surreptitious cigarette rocks.
• Cake on your birthday makes all the difference.
• Motorways - yes, you can go 90, but there sure as hell isn't somewhere to stop to pee or get a big honkin' coke for the road.
• My dad and I can vacation for 2.5 weeks without death or dismemberment. Cool. :-)

Pictures, summaries and tales of the trip will be forthcoming...I promise...