Brighton UK

7 October 2011 Happy Birthday Dinner at the Regency

Oct 7, 2011

6 October 2011 Nothing Says Brighton

Oct 6, 2011

like the burned-out pier. I know I have a million pictures of the pier, the waves and Sam from over the years, but still I couldn’t resist taking just one more.

5 October 2011 UK Border Crossing

Oct 5, 2011

27 July 2011 Football

Jul 27, 2011

I am still wiped from last night’s “Family Football” hour. This morning Sam found our inflatable England football from last summer in the basement, and she’s been practicing her fancy footwork with it.

Highlight of the Night

Jun 21, 2011

Sam and AC got home from their first Parent-Child football class at 7:30 and regaled me with stories of games and goals and grass over dinner. So it was quite late when we made it out the door for our evening stroll around the neighborhood. There were the usual frogs (AC didn’t catch any tonight) and the usual …

13 April 2011 At Washington Dulles Airport

Apr 14, 2011

Look who we picked up!

Please Mind the Gap

Mar 23, 2011

This video is likely of interest only to me, but I wanted to preserve it, because it is so representative of our time in the UK: a train ride through green and wet countryside, Sam gazing out the window, and my reading of a book (in this case, Watership Down) interrupted by the automatic train lady voice reminding us …

22 March 2011 Back to the UK

Mar 23, 2011

As I write this, AC is now on an airplane (hopefully asleep!) bound for London.

9 March 2011 One Year Ago Today

Mar 10, 2011

we arrived in Brighton. What a year. I could have never predicted one year ago where we’d be today.

26 February 2011 The Charlottesville Pavilion

Feb 27, 2011

We walked to the downtown Mall and back today, passing right through the Charlottesville Pavilion– scene of summertime concerts, we hear. Sam said, “That doesn’t look anything like the Brighton Pavilion.” We laughed. She’s right.