Bury St Edmunds with the wife and friends

Today Alicia and I went to Bury St Edmunds with a couple of friends. On the way there we came accross this truck:

If you can't make out what's written, it says: "I wish my wife was as dirty as this van"

That's pretty damn funny.

As soon as we got to the shopping area of Bury I locked the keys in the car, which was great because I got to learn how to break into my car, which unfortunately is way too easy and only took me about 1 minute. With a little practice I think I could have my time under 10 seconds.

We hit up a pub for a pint to wash away the super feeling of jackass I had for the key incident and then walked around various shops to see what the town has to offer. It offers alot. We were there for about 3 hours or so and didn't even come close to seeing everything.

As is the case with many of the towns in England, we ran accross some churches or cathedralls. I'm not sure which and I didn't bother to look and find out, but here are some photos:

The last photo is of Abbey Gardens. Apparently some rich guy built this monsterous house with beautiful gardens - and then died or something. Anyway, the ruins are there to see. My synopsis is mostly untrue, just so you know. Alicia told a story about the neighbors pilliging the house for the stones so they could build their own houses. If you really care to know the story, go here: http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/play/abbeygardens.cfm#history (click on the history link).

All that walking around looking at stuff makes me pretty hungry so we stopped by a kabob place by our house for some food and they had an awesome sign.

We won't get used to it though, i'm sure they only have it because of their relative location to the bases around here.

FTAC Field Trip

Last Wednesday I took a field trip with my FTAC (first term airman... something) class. It started with a trip to the hospital for shots. It quickly became apparent that all the cops had to get shots and most everyone else did not. Gee, I wonder if it's cause we go to the desert so often. Upon arriving at the hospital, a fire alarm went off and we had to go outside and wait. Then we got our shots and then we went and ate lunch. After lunch we went to the Imperial War Museum which was pretty cool. We only got to see a fraction of what the place has to offer because of time restraints but our guide was extrememly knowledgeable especailly about WWII. I'm not going to post a bunch of photos on the site, but I will include a link to all of them once I figure out how to share my photobucket. We saw planes, guns, bombs and other really cool stuff. Then we went to a WWII memorial. The memorial is incredibly well kept, very nice and features a very picturesqe landscape. My class brought down the flag and that concluded the day.

Clint and I saw these handy little directional signs in a little store while shopping at the mall in Cambridge yesterday. Are these suggestive, or is my mind in the gutter? Dirty Brits... Hopefully during our next trip to cambridge we will see better things to take pictures of than dirty mall signs...they have much funnier signs outside the mall...hehehe...enjoy these in the mean time...CHEERIO!

Congratulations are in order!

Alicia and I have adopted a beautiful baby... Silver Back Gorilla! He eats, plays, naps, and of course - poops! His name is Salim, which means peace, and we adopted him from the ZSL London Zoo. He is now 1 year old. If you would like to adopt your own baby silverback, here ya go: http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/lz-exhibits/gorilla-kingdom/desktop-gorilla-game,610,AR.html

We've been Simpson'ized!

Alicia and I have joined the Simpson family via a Burgerking promo: http://simpsonizeme.com/

A typical Saturday morning

While we wait for our shipments of goods to arrive, including the other laptop, we are forced to share. This creates some interesting sollutions to boredom in the house.

Intro

As the title asks, what would you do if you were here? You can take that as the metophorical here, as in here on the internet; or in the physical here, located in England. Our intention is to use this blog for keeping our friends and family up to date with what is going on in our lives and the (hopefully) many adventures that we shall have.