Thursday, August 2, 2012

Friends & Family

Had a good day today. Got out and saw some of the sights.... Kind of. We took a long bus ride to the practice pool. Long bus rides are better on a British double decker bus. Especially if you sit up top.

The pool we went to was nice, you can see a pic below.

Drove back on our magnificent double decker. Had a great lunch and dessert at the village BBQ park. The fudge being served at the Scottish station was basically a sweet delicious hybrid of sugar cubes and caramel. As a whole, lunch couldn't have been better.

I met Tony and his wife Jenny for dinner at the P&G house here near the London Bridge. It's a great place for family an friends to hang out and enjoy some pampering with good food, laundry, spa, barber shop grooming in the "Man Cave" and of course all the USA fans and games you could want. It's amazing to see friends particularly great friends like Tony and Jenny. You can never get enough LeBlanc. Funny story, we stopped to take a picture in front of the American flag up in the P&G house and to get all three of us in it we had to ask someone to take the picture. You've all been there. Only person close was this girl/lady who I tapped on the shoulder holding Jenny's pink camera. She gave me a sort of salty look. Turns out it was Jenna Bush (yeah W's kid). I think she was salty because she thought I was going to ask her if I could get a picture with her. Once she realized I was just asking her to take the picture she was super nice and friendly. She mentioned the crest portion of the house where they have a green screen where you can pose as athletes and Olympians. Funny how much she was like her dad in accent and smile. Pleasantly surprised at how cool she was to us. (Dad, I'm sure you love to hear that). Later in the night we stopped for some paella and Catalan stew from a open air restaurant near the London Bridge. The food wasn't bad and the company was as good as it gets.

Huge thumbs up for friends and in particular friends who are family. My home away from home.

Photo 1: practice pool
Photo 2: the team watching semi final heats of the 50 free.
Photo 3: the team and the rings. The girls are wearing the softball jerseys they were given and this is in support of the USA Softball team.
Photo 4: Tony and Jenny throwing down some Spanish food here in London. Incredible to see them, made my night.