Goodbye Dublin, Hello Vocanic Ash?

Thanks to the B-rooke for our new blog title. Here we are in London. For a quick recap, we moved to London last week when Rob's office moved from Dublin to London. Since our time in Dublin was almost "up" we will only be here in London for a short time. The boys and I will be back in the States from the end of May thru mid August and Rob will join us there in July. After a summer of eating good mexican food, swimming every day, good family and friends time, and lots and lots of Target we will move to Sydney, Australia to help open another office for Madison Tyler. It's gonna be quite the summer but we're game.

So, with that out of the way...
We said goodbye to Dublin last week. I was ready to go in lots of ways but not so ready in others. We had a lot of good friends there that we are really going to miss. We had a little going away BBQ and here are some pics:

Easton and Ivy. Easton keeps saying "but I wanted to marry Ivy and now I can't cause she's still in Dublin." True love will have to wait I guess.


Me with some of the Young Women from our ward. Emma, Aisling, Ciara, me.


Joe provided some sweet tunes


There were 6 babies born in 2009 in our ward which is a lot because our ward was pretty small. Here are a few of those bambinos. Me and Owen, Justina and Elijah, Ruby and Kaitlyn, Stacey and Sky.


Silvio and Paula, our Brazilian buddies.


We were scheduled to fly out of Dublin last weekend but were foiled by the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull. Huh? Rob's office opening was pretty time sensitive so instead of waiting it out in Dublin another week the whole office staff hopped on the ferry over to Wales and then boarded a train to London.
The ground on the ferry is sanitary, right?

The train to London was crazy. There were so many people trying to get on that we would have had to stand for 4 hours...with two kids. We opted to wait another 2 hours and get seats. It was quite the day of travel but we survived.
So here we are. London is lovely but it is also really big. I am finding that I have little motivation to familiarize myself with bus routes and tube stations since we will only be here a few weeks. So we are walking a lot. Our apartment is just south of Buckingham Palace and just East of Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We've had a lot of park time:

Green Park


St. James Park is just north of us:


We are trying to do lots of things while we are here. We went to the National Museum of Natural History. Easton loved the dinosaurs. Love that it is free...we'll be going back for sure.



Alrighty, I think that's about it...I'm caught up!