Mom showed up today. I went down to Heathrow to pick her up and we rode back together on the bus. She had a reasonable flight, and seemed to be in good health and spirits. I had an “all clear” mail to the rest of the family queued up and ready to send to via my new blackberry and after a quick inspection, I sent it off. That was kind of cool, dorky as it may sound, because I know that everyone was maybe just a tiny bit worried that she’d have trouble on the plane or whatever, and it was nice to be able to kick one off from the airport and get the info to everybody asap. Ok, that IS really dorky, but I’m into that intergalactic space radio communication frequency stuff. It went something like this:
subject: Mom
message:
Got her, she’s doing fine. We’re en route to Oxford.
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We walked through the crowds down St Aldate’s Way and got her stuff stowed at the apt. The we went down to the Head of the River pub for some basic English fare at the edge of the Thames. This place is pretty, and has a really cool feel to it with swans and the Thames/Isis, old buildings, punts, etc. She had the steak and ale pie, and I had the fish and chips with a pint of something or other. Oh yeah, and my meal came with “mushy peas” which is basically what it sounds like, but really lumpy and sort of dry. While I mostly like English food, this mushypea stuff is for the birds. Even a hungry E is not down with this.
nice, eh?
After dinner, we went on a walk along the Thames by Christ Church Meadow, which is this big (you guessed it) meadow behind Christ Church college. There are some cows there, there’s probably some big deal royal story or something behind them, but I don’t know what it is. Then we went up the path along the Cherwell river, and back through town. We saw lots of neat stuff, like the old MG motorworks building, the bridge of sighs, the Radcliffe Camera, Merton college, the Said Business School, and even stopped at the Kings Arms for a 1/2 pint (don’t ask for a schooner, they don’t know what the hell you’re talking about) of cider.
the old Morris Garage (MG) plant
fancy a pint, gov?
4 comments:
Tell your mom that her clothes fit in just fine!
Your mom looks great! I'm so excited for youuuuuuuuu :) Hope you're having a blast, we miss you back here.
-grace
....after all of those fish and chips don't your ankles hurt putting that much weight on them?
Hey there's mom!
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