Boulder to London

Well, the full week continues with Jenny and Angie in London.  The last post ended right before we took off for the zoo, so I’ll pick up there.
Wednesday - Went to the zoo at Regents Park.  Angie and Jenny are getting very good at navigating London public transport.  I think at this point we’ve taken [...]

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My sister Jenny and niece Angie landed in London on Friday to spend a week in the UK exploring the sites. We have already done a lot and still have a ton more to see. It’s been fun doing a bunch of the tourist stuff that we never seem to get motivated to [...]

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Sorry about the sparse updates…I’ve had a fairly busy couple of weeks. Hopefully more to come on that later next week.
Sailing school turned out to be good fun. I was with a group of 4 others, Alistair, Helen, Candice and Ferris. Alistair and Helen are married and live about 100 yards from us in Clapham. [...]

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I’m about to head off to my second of a 2-weekend long course on sailing.  As usual, I did minimal research before signing up and later realised that I should have done a shore based course prior to the practical course to cover a few things that will eventually be important (navigation, tidal calculations, etc).  [...]

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Melisse and I are done with Clapham.  The place is nice, the train access is good, the parks are beautiful, but the fact that we don’t have a kid hanging off each arm prevents us from really fitting into the neighborhood scene.  Unfortunately we still have about 4 or 5 months left on the lease [...]

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I woke up this morning to a pleasant surprise…there was not a cloud in the sky!  What I thought was going to be a cold and wet day sitting inside watching football, was suddenly full of possibility.  Since it was still early, I went down to the gym and got a quick work out in.  [...]

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Today started out a little rough.  We were woken up around 8:00 by the neighbors’ little girl throwing an absolute tantrum on the floor above us.  This isn’t the first time it has happened and for a while, we thought that they were playing basketball up there.  Our theory now is that the little girl [...]

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