the starrs: February 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cirque

Last week a traveling Cirque show came to Lakenheath to put on a FREE show for us! I'm not one to pass up a free show, so I went with some friends to check it out. It was awesome!! I'd never seen a Cirque show before, so I didn't know what to expect, but it was extremely entertaining. The things those performers can do, and how they can twist themselves was incredible! It made me cringe many times, and there were lots of gasps/eye covering in the audience during some tricks, but the performers did a great job. Hopefully they come back next year! :)

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Snow Dogs

We have had an unusual amount of snow here in England lately, but I have to say that I'm loving it, and so are the dogs! The first night we got about 4-5 inches, and they weren't sure what to do with the white stuff, but they came around and were soon in seventh heaven frolicking around in the backyard. I woke up with no running water yesterday morning, presumably due to frozen pipes. This Arizona girl didn't quite know what to do with herself! :) Luckily I have some amazing friends here, one let me shower at their house, and another friend/neighbor gave me a tip to fix the problem last night, which thankfully worked! I had a little spill on the ice outside my house, where I ended up laying in the middle of the road for about 2 minutes before I could get up and carry on...hopefully the neighbors didn't see me! Another friend took me out for some retail therapy to get over my embarrassment. :) It's pretty icy now, so I'm glad I don't have to venture out today - I love snow days!

Max and Zoe don't know what to do with the snow!

Our street

She likes to try and eat it :)

Don't eat the yellow snow!

He loves the snow

Thursday, February 16, 2012

My college roommate emailed me in October and said she had found some great airfare prices to fly to Paris. She wanted to know if I would want to meet her over there sometime in January. Since I had just found out Thomas would be deploying, my answer was a resounding YES. It seemed to take forever, but January finally rolled around, and I was off to Paris! I decided I wanted to try taking the train there rather than flying, so I booked my tickets on the Eurostar - the one that goes under the water through the Chunnel! I was pretty excited, but nervous about finding my way to the hotel in Paris once I got there. I took the train right from my little town, switched in London to the Eurostar and made it to Paris with no problems. I was armed with all my maps and walking directions from the metro stop straight to the hotel where I was meeting Debbie, and I made it there without having to ask directions once! My dad would be so proud. :)

I had heard some negative experiences about visiting Paris, so I tried to go in with very few expectations so that I wouldn't be disappointed. I shouldn't have worried though, because we had a blast! It was a very beautiful city, with great food, and all (OK, most) of the French people we encountered were extremely friendly and helpful.

We went on a walking tour, went up the Eiffel Tower, visited the Louvre, Museum d'Orsay, Museum L'Orangerie, Notre Dame, Saint Chappelle, and Palace of Versailles - and we were only there for four days! :) I apologize for the picture overload, but it was hard to narrow down all of the pictures we took!