17.11.27-30. Welcome to the UK

I arrived at dusk after a 9 hour flight from San Jose to London, then a reasonable 2.5 hour layover and 1 hour shuttle flight to Manchester.  I was hosted for three pleasant nights and two days by Sarah's mom Judy, and Dave.

  They live in Greenmount, a small village 30 miles north of the airport.  They were kind to let me sleep till noon the first morning, then I took a walk around the neighborhood in the beautiful but chilly afternoon sun.

Next day we had lunch and a pint at their local pub.  Then Dave and I went on a three mile  walk together in Redishire Woods

On another chilly but beautiful  day.

I very much enjoyed getting to know Dave and Judy better since the first time I was here, I was primarily caregiving for Mike in the early stages of his disease, so did not get around as much as I would have liked. 

Here we are with Judy and Sarah's dad at the wedding party in May 2015

Next stop.... Curt and Sarah's house in Sheffield,

 and I get to meet my new granddaughter!

Judy and Dave drove me from their house in Greenmount the 54 miles to Sarah and Curt's house in Sheffield on Friday morning.  They were happy to make the trip because they were anxious to see baby Brynne again.   It was an interesting drive for me - only a few miles of motorway ( freeway) and mostly two lane roads through villages, towns and beautiful English countryside. I enjoyed the ride despite my upset stomach - we decided it was probably because since I've been a bottled water girl for so many years, my stomach wasn't happy after two days of tap water ( which tasted good to me, and I had been drinking freely since my arrival).  We stopped for bottled water just before we got to the kids house in Sheffield.  This is NOT a third world country where it is not OK to drink the water, I'm just a water snob from years of living in California