This morning, I found my 2 year old son, Ashton, holding my cell phone singing, “where is the cow?” over and over. It took me a second, but then I remembered my alarm is set to the song from this cartoon:
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
So my wife finally started her own blog over at blogspot, The McClean Family.
Now I can keep all of my posts really boring and nerdy while she chronicles our family life events.
Speaking of other blogs, I recently rediscovered this disturbing one that I had set up for a school assignment 3 years ago. I hardly remember writing any of it: Dug’s Blog.
Someone (my wife) nicely pointed out that I didn’t post about any of the sights or attractions we saw while we were in London. And I did promise in that I would make another post if I remembered anything else. Here were a few of our favorite places, in no particular order:
1. Windsor Castle
This is the Queen’s little (about 484,000 square feet) home that she likes to stay in on the weekends. The castle is awesome, and the surrounding city of Windsor is absolutely beautiful.
2. Royal Observatory, Greenwich
One of my favorite places, probably because it is located on the prime meridian, and it is from where most places base their time zone (GMT -0700, anyone?). I also got this awesome picture from the camera obscura there:
Well, even though you can’t see anything in the picture, when you stand in the dark room long enough to let your eyes adjust, you can see a live image of a London street being projected onto a table.
3. Different Palaces of London
Hampton Court Palace was by far my favorite palace that we saw, with the dining areas and kitchens being my favorite, because it was really, really old — I believe it was used around the 12th or 13th century. The palace reminded me of the old medieval era portrayed in movies. I didn’t take any pictures of the inside; I don’t remember if they allowed pictures or not. Oh, and the maze there was super fun, too.
Other palaces we saw were the late Princess Diana’s home, Kensington Palace; and the queen’s current home, Buckingham Palace. Though we never toured the inside of Buckingham Palace, we did see the changing of the guards there.
4. Museums
The British Museum, I got to see the Rosetta Stone in person.
The London Aquarium, always fun to see underwater life (I’d love to visit Sea World again sometime soon).
The Natural History Museum, “But look at my little arms. I can’t press the fire button, and jump at the same time.”
There is definitely a lot more to see, and my wife and I would love to go back again, but I’m done trying to think of more to write.
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