Finally had some sun this weekend. We headed to CJ's first British classmate's party. I don't know what I was expecting- from all my martha stewart type friends that planned kiddo bday parties in TX - I guess I was expecting a scaled back version of a 5 year old's bday party here. Well there was a hall rented 40 children- basically all 3 classes from their school were invited. A DJ , a dancefloor, bounce house, magician, beer/wine for the adults, and general mayhem as you attempt to get 40 kids to eat dinner together. The kids and moms for that matter were decked out for the party- (most moms in dresses/heels (no worries I was in capris)- Goody bags for the kids had a cupcake, a cookie, a light up toy, a stuffed animal. (may be nicer than the gift I gave)
Finally met a very cool Mom (she's form Ireland) from the school. She is funny, krunchy (e.g she has home births (she's like a 100 pounds and does the whole drug free thing for 9 lb babies (CRAZY) and recycles everything), likes wine, likes kids going to school . She sought me out asking if I was going to the States for Christmas and if I could buy some items from babygap and seven jeans for herself. She always laughing at how our kids teacher refuses to call CJ anything other than Christopher. Anyway- she was filling me in on how everyone tries to outdo each other on bday parties and now since this was the first one of the year- things could get ridiculous.
Sunday - woke up to Chris letting me know that Michigan State had crushed ND ( we have the college tv package)! Then headed to London. This is one of the last weekends they let you inside Buckingham Palace. Casey liked it- although she mentioned (loudly) that the queen isn't as pretty as the princesses (disney) and then stared at the chandeliers (reminded me of that cute baby einstein phase). Chris seemed moderately bored as I hung out in the banquet room and counted the glasses at each place setting 6 (water, white wine, red wine, port, pudding, and champagne.) Get rid of the pudding glass if you ask me and add another champagne flute. We did spot the mayor of London (he still needs a haircut before this city hosts the Olympics).
Then we took 2 tubes-2 buses to get to the Burberry outlet. So sad -it's in a bad part of town across the street from some projects and then myself and 1/2 of asia was running through the door scouring for purses. (side note no British people wear Burberry- its out of fashion here)
A purse was purchased - (Chris did tell me to buy whatever I wanted since we were never going to spend 2 hours getting there again). Will provide photos of myself and purse at a later date.
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Crazy about the birthday parties! I thought it was bad enough here.
I remember the Mayor's hair from the Closing ceremonies!! He was a rumpled mess!
And yes...when we stopped over in London on our trip in February, someone told us the same thing about Burberry. Isn't that strange? (Jim is the one here into that stuff- go figure). It didn't stop him from wanting something from there.
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