I Love Mushy Minty Peas!
11/15/2007 05:59:00 PM Edit This 1 Comment »
Well, I’ll start this blog by surprisingly saying, “I love mushy minty peas!”. I went to London yesterday on a quick (quick!) day trip and loved it! I love London! Woohoo!
My old roommate Liz will be in London for a week, so I flew in to see her for the day. The entire travel cost me only $50 ($20 for flights and $30 for airport shuttle), so a day trip was easy to do.
We saw Westminster Abbey, Parliament, Big Ben, The London Tower, London Bridge, and Buckingham Palace. The funniest part of the day was a little incident we had with some of the queen’s guards. At St. James Palace (just around the corner from Buckingham), there are always 2 guards standing out on the sidewalk. These are the traditional guards that stand at attention or march, and you can’t do anything to make them crack a smile. I don’t know how they do it! Well, while I was standing next to one to get my picture taken, one of the guards screamed, “STAND BACK!!!!!!!!!!” and Liz and I both screamed and ran squealing out into the street. We thought we had done something wrong, but he was calling the other guard to attention so that they could begin to march. We laughed at that for a while – you would have thought we were 8 year old girls the way we screamed and ran. Some things never change…
We ate fish & chips at a pub that Christian would have LOVED. It’s called the Hung Drawn & Quartered and it has a huge noose hanging over the bar. I’ve actually had better fish & chips here in Germany (Germans make some mean & tasty fish!), but the BEST thing ever were the mushy minty peas!!!!! (okay, this is where Jennifer Joy may pass out…). These peas were kind of like mashed potatoes and they were divine!!!!!!!!!!!! OH YUMMY!
I cannot wait to go back to London with Christian. The British are happy, friendly and helpful. There is Starbuck’s on EVERY corner, and they even have Krispy Kreme (although I don’t like donuts, but I thought that was pretty cool!). The stores are also amazing, but the pound is so high, that they are sadly just for looking…
The only icky part of the trip was my drive home from the airport. The airport that I flew out of is out in the middle of nowhere and when we flew in, the roads were completely covered with snow & ice. I have NEVER had to drive in either, so I was really really nervous. The Germans driving behind me were VERY frustrated with me as I was driving so slow, but there was literally NO road! Mama mia…. I did get home without any icy incidents (as Christian told me I would) but I decided that I was NOT up to driving today! So…it’s now 6pm and we are all still in our pajamas!
Glad I could share this with you all – come see me and we will hit London together! Mushy Minty Peas could be waiting for YOU!!!
blessings!
diane
My old roommate Liz will be in London for a week, so I flew in to see her for the day. The entire travel cost me only $50 ($20 for flights and $30 for airport shuttle), so a day trip was easy to do.
We saw Westminster Abbey, Parliament, Big Ben, The London Tower, London Bridge, and Buckingham Palace. The funniest part of the day was a little incident we had with some of the queen’s guards. At St. James Palace (just around the corner from Buckingham), there are always 2 guards standing out on the sidewalk. These are the traditional guards that stand at attention or march, and you can’t do anything to make them crack a smile. I don’t know how they do it! Well, while I was standing next to one to get my picture taken, one of the guards screamed, “STAND BACK!!!!!!!!!!” and Liz and I both screamed and ran squealing out into the street. We thought we had done something wrong, but he was calling the other guard to attention so that they could begin to march. We laughed at that for a while – you would have thought we were 8 year old girls the way we screamed and ran. Some things never change…
We ate fish & chips at a pub that Christian would have LOVED. It’s called the Hung Drawn & Quartered and it has a huge noose hanging over the bar. I’ve actually had better fish & chips here in Germany (Germans make some mean & tasty fish!), but the BEST thing ever were the mushy minty peas!!!!! (okay, this is where Jennifer Joy may pass out…). These peas were kind of like mashed potatoes and they were divine!!!!!!!!!!!! OH YUMMY!
I cannot wait to go back to London with Christian. The British are happy, friendly and helpful. There is Starbuck’s on EVERY corner, and they even have Krispy Kreme (although I don’t like donuts, but I thought that was pretty cool!). The stores are also amazing, but the pound is so high, that they are sadly just for looking…
The only icky part of the trip was my drive home from the airport. The airport that I flew out of is out in the middle of nowhere and when we flew in, the roads were completely covered with snow & ice. I have NEVER had to drive in either, so I was really really nervous. The Germans driving behind me were VERY frustrated with me as I was driving so slow, but there was literally NO road! Mama mia…. I did get home without any icy incidents (as Christian told me I would) but I decided that I was NOT up to driving today! So…it’s now 6pm and we are all still in our pajamas!
Glad I could share this with you all – come see me and we will hit London together! Mushy Minty Peas could be waiting for YOU!!!
blessings!
diane
1 comments:
Oh my...I can't think of anything that sounds worse than mushy minty peas! Who would even think to come up with such a concoction??!!
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