BACK HOME ALREADY!!

Well I finally arrived bcak into belfast city airport 16hours after leaving washington, of course with my track record at customs it meant that there were a few wee probs along the way, nothing major though! The guy at passport control in Heathrow I dont think believed that it was me in the photo, he had a good look!

Washington is the best place i have been to on my hols hands down. Everything is so much bigger and better there. Firstly arriving to the snow was great, trust me we dont know what snow is over here! It was great fun in the snow, Aaron was at the usual tricks of pelting the biggest snowballs and of course Rachael and I got rolled. Just like old times really! Chloe was loving the snow too, shes so cute, and has a laugh just like her dad! Maybe that aint such a good thing??

I think Rachael, Chloe and I covered serious miles when we were seeing the sights, Rachael should really become a tour guide because she knew all the best places to go see! Thanks for that! The sights are amazing, you really have to go to appreciate them, especially the mall and capitol hill. The White House was really impressive too! Only thing is that the security staff at most of the places are physco's! Dont ever cross them! All the sights and museums are free entry which was great, Northern Ireland has definately some catching up to do.

A lot of time was spent eating, maybe not a good thing in my case but the food over here is just mad. No half portions here! We ate in some really nice places! American people are really friendly though sometimes its a bit annoying when you just cant be bothered talking to them. Of course everyone loved Chloe because she always had a smile for them!

Shopping over there is brill, we went to an outlet mall kinda like junction one but ten time bigger and better. Got some great bargains! We also went to see Disney on Ice. which cost hardly anything and was brilliant, we also went to a basketball game to see the Georgetown Hoyas play West Virginia, really good fun to watch, americans take it so seriously.

Thats just a wee bit of what we got up to. i would be writing all day if I tried to put all it in here. Have a few photos i will put on later at some point! Aaron be warned!!! Talking of Aaron, he has such an easy life over there, i dont think he should be telling people that he is working in america, more like having a holiday!!! Anyway thanks Aaron,Rachael and of course Chloe for having me over, it was an experience i wont forget. See you all soon xx

Chloe looking cute!

Aaron was sporting some lovely baby blue fluffy gloves for the occassion - he's grateful to his mother-in-law for these!!!lol

LAURA SANDS HAS ARRIVED

After spending some time in customs, Laura was eventually allowed into the country on Saturday afternoon around 5pm.

We went staight to our apartment and showed Laura where she would b spending her nights - on the sofa!!!

We then headed out into the snow with Leona and Nesbitt (another pwc employee working in San Jose) to the Galleria for a chinese and later back to our's for a dvd.

Sunday morning we were supposed to leave early and travel to PA to Malvern church but because of the snow storm we couldn't make it. The church service was actually cancelled due to the snowy conditions.

Instead, Leona, Nesbitt and us went to Great Falls park for a walk and to look at the river. After that we also went into D.C. a had a walk along the Mall which was lovely in the snow.

IT'S SNOWING!!!

I've been waiting for it the whole time we've been here and it's finally arrived!!

It started snowing around lunch time on Saturday and didn't stop until Sunday 9am so we got about 1 foot of snow!!!

Unlike N I everything didn't come to a stand still - we went to the park and they even had cleared the snow any from the paths in the Great falls park!

it's snowing

Photos From New York

New York

This weekend we set off on Friday evening on the 5 1/2 hour journey to the big apple!Aaron did most of the driving and we arrived around 1am. Saturday am we went to ground zero and then caught the ferry over to Liberty Island to see the Statue. All the tickets to get up to the statue had been distributed before we arrived but one nice park ranger gave us tickets just because we were 'Irish'.

Caner's from New York so he met and took us to the Empire State building ( he's lived here for 10years and this was his 1st time there). After lunch we went to Central Park where Caner and I ice skated while Aaron fed chloe!

Saturday night 8 of us went to Little Italy for dinner - some of the others are working for pwc in New York.

We also had a wee drive around Time Square at night time - Aaron did the driving, I was glad cause all the yellow taxi drivers are crazy!

Video Night

Braveheart is Caner's all time favourite movie - at one point he knew every single line!
Leona, Rita, Aaron and Caner getting ready to watch Braveheart

Baltimore

We went to Baltimore aquarium with Emma, Aoife and Leona the journey only took about 1hour. Chloe got to travel in style around to aquarium!!

Thursday at the Mall

The squirls seemed to really like aunt Helen, they were being feed starbucks shortbread!

Some photos from the zoo