Really Amanda, this is what you learned.

Okay. This was my thought of the day.

"New girl. I get it... I was you a few months ago... but really COME ON, if it takes 10 minutes to change one diaper and we have nine diapers to change that is NINETY minutes on diapers. We can't start until snack is over (at around 2:30) , and then we have to go outside and be back INSIDE for me, Amanda to do diapers AGAIN at 4:00. Do the math. As soon as you finish with your diapers, I will have to start my diapers, and the kids will have not reached that outside land. I'm taking over. These kids have got to go outside before they bounce off the walls, or A and E fall off of that shelf they keep climbing."

By the way. I was not as mad about this as that sounds. I continued to follow that thought with, "Amanda, she is new, and she is yet to recognize the signs of 9 pre-toddlers that HAVE to go outside before they torture each other and you. Try to find some way to encourage her, and also try to remember how you felt during your first diaper changes."

Be Tee Dub, Even with a 12 step diapering process, I can still change a diaper in about two minutes.. five minutes for those have-to-scrape-the-poop kind.

A month!

I am almost down to the last month.

I want to point out that my crochet fingers are jonesing to stitch. I have to get on that as soon as I get home. I have researched some new stitches, and I just want to make things.

I am your grandmother's sister. I accept my fate.

Also, I have to start picking what I want to mail home. I won't be able to fit everything in my suitcase.

Also, don't know what I will be doing this summer yet... awesome.

Excited!

Bowling!

So, the interns went bowling and I am finally getting around to posting pictures. No real lag though, as we only went bowling this past Monday and it is currently Friday.

I am "MANDA PANDA", Lindsey was "CHUCK NORRIS", and Sarah was "NO PANTS".

The guys went too. After the first game Sam took the other girls home while Bob, Sam, and I stayed for another game.

Bob is "TYB", Sam is "LOSER", and I am now known as "MA NA MA NA". I will playfully point out that my name looks like "MA NA" on the front screen, which is what Gabby referred to me as when we were small children.

.Below I point out that we all had the SAME score for a while.

I was soooo close to winning. Much improved over my first score though.

Skype

I'll have you take a short look at my desktop now.

How 90's does this video look? Like something straight out of a Friends episode.

Note the Mac face above.

Be ware that Pandora radio works in Germany again... will I have lullaby music to go to be to again?

Jedwards had something to put him to sleep!

So, who noticed that by the end of this my desktop was A. Full of screen shots, and B. Different that it was at the start of this conversation?

London, England. Dream fulfilled.

So I went to London. You know. That place in England. Highlight, Harry Potter; other highlight, small children speaking in British accents! Love Love Love. How do I go about having a child with a British accent? Do you think I could accomplish that?

Moving forward into real life. This is me looking very stoked about going to London. Also stoked about the 13 hour bus ride that will include a 2 hour ferry from France to the United Kingdom. ... or something like that.

So, passports stamped for entry.

Bob was very wide awake for this part.

We had a one hour wait on the way there for the ferry to deport.

So we took some pictures.

... and played with the giant bubbles that were floating around. For video of children playing, inquire within.

By this time, we had ridden about 9 hours on a bus. I was now waking up from a one hour sleep on a ferry. I was very alert. Notice my wonderful dressing abilities at this point in the trip!

Yes, we did eventually reach London. We had 12 hours to do whatever.

Pretty sure the first thing I did was jump in this phone booth and hope it lead to the Ministry of Magic.

The second thing I did was spot my sir name written on a statue. Cool, right?

The Olympics are in London in 2012. The big question. "Will there be Quidditch?"

Remember, they drive on the other side of the road. There were a LOT of signs and notations informing people of which way they should look to avoid dying in the streets of London.

Okay. Now to the first thing we did, and the thing I would go back and do if I lived in London, we visited St. James Park. BEAUTIFUL. It is right in front of the Palace, but whatever. (For those of you who actually know me, you know that tourism things tend to annoy me to pieces, because there are so many people, there are people confusing other people to scam them out of money, and the typical reason I would be there would just be to say I had been there.) This park was gorgeous. There were all types of flowers all over this park unlike anything I had seen before. People were running in London throughout the entire day, but many people were running in this park. Birds were EVERYWHERE. All over the place, all types of birds. I even saw a swan. I would love to be a Brit. They are lovely people, and they have lovely parks! Well, I am proud to be an American, but maybe a duel citizen... that'd be pretty cool!

Bird.

Flower.

Fountain.

Duck. (and by Duck I mean bird that isn't actually a duck, but I don't remember what it was really called)

Palace?! Where?

Nevermind. I saw some more water fowl. I will get to that palace later.

Okay, this is the palace. Looks real palace like right?

Cool thing. We walked along the St. James Park some more, and we spotted some guards practicing. It was pretty cool to see them do a lot of stomping and walking in formation. It was obviously a training sort of mission, because they kept stopping to fix mistakes and point out small errors.

This guy!

Again, "Don't die in London. We will help you with this convenient signage."

Big Ben. Eye of London.

Now this, was very interesting. It was a silent protest, with lots of signs and tents and messages. The Brits apparently don't like the was ver much.

Below is a picture of the British Book store where I purchased my very own British copies of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Dream..... Come..... True....

This lady... she built a table.

See this bridge.... Recognize it from a little movie called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?

Globe Theatre remake....

London Bridge "is falling down".

Highlight of day... pictured here. The Millennium bridge!

I don't want to talk about how lost I felt pre this McDonalds trip. Post trip I had a Cadbury egg McFlurry. Wicked weird.

Note the stress.

Took my hair down and opened a book. Long Long Long day. Worth every stressful moment and Dollar, Euro, and Pound spent!