What a great day!!! I woke up to sunshine and it even seems a bit warmer out! My mom and grandma are on a flight right now. They are scheduled to arrive at 3:15 but right now it says they will be early at 2:24. I AM SO EXCITED!!! We will have a busy weekend, doing all the touristy stuff over the weekend, then Bath on Monday and Tuesday, then they will be on their own Weds and Thurs and then sadness when they leave on Friday :(

We here at the office (well those of us willing to venture out into the cold) are really starting to get some travel planned. I booked tickets to Strasbourg, France for the weekend of Nov 21-23. It is right on the border with Germany and looks like it will be beautiful. We are hoping to get plans all worked out for Berlin for Nov 28-30 by the end of the day. They will both be cold but should still be quite beautiful and hey, I am getting used to the cold! (Especially with my new warm blanket jacket!)

We are going to a Halloween party tonight (that is if mom and grandma are awake.) Someone here from work, Svarva, lives in my building and is throwing the party. Pretty handy that it is in my building so how could I not go? Alot of the UK people and from close parts of Europe go home on the weekends so it seems that whenever anyone plans something it is always on a Thursday. Halloween does not seem to be a big deal here. There are decorations but I am told that unless you live in a very high family area you won't really have kids come by. Actually that sounds alot like home!

I keep hearing fireworks, they are legal here and everyone is getting ready for the big holiday next week. My birthday! No, just kidding, November 5 is Guy Fawkes day and they celebrate it like the 4th of July with lots of fireworks and bonfires. They should be fun to go to as they burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes. We don't burn enough effigies of people back in LA do we?