Day Five is Tuesday September 19th, our full day in York. It’s still a favorite!
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Postcards Day Four
Day four was Monday September 18th and it was a Uber, Plane and Train day to get from Dublin to York.
We’ve had a couple days with very sketchy internet so my postcards are behind. We have been blessed with sunbreaks and rain breaks at just the right time. Thank you, Lord!
Postcards Day 3
Our third day in Ireland was Sunday September 17th. We enjoyed breakfast at the Lemon Jelly before we attended church at Grosvenor Rd. Baptist Church, Sunday Roast at The Old Spot, St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Evensong and Guinness Storehouse Experience for the finale. Sunday it rained off and on, mostly on, so it was good we had so many indoor activities planned. Slainte!
Postcards Day 2
We had an exceptional weather day for our 1 day tour out from Dublin to Northern Ireland on Saturday September 16th. I don’t have time for lots of words. Slainte!
You’ve noticed, too, that I haven’t been able to visit your posts. I’ll try to catch up when I get home.
Postcards Day 1
We arrived in Dublin and were welcomed with some typical rainy weather. We are hoping to have some sunbreaks here and there during our time in Ireland and England.
I don’t have much time on the computer so any posts before I return home will be postcards with few words. I’ll create my travel diary here on my blog when I return home. Slainte.
Great Britain 2003, 2004 and 2006
Ever since our first trips ‘Across the Pond’ before we were married we had a tugging to return and enjoy these lands that held great memories for us. It took twenty nine years for us to book a trip in February of 2003. It was a short trip to London with a day trip out to Cambridge. We stayed in South Kensington and used the Tube and Trains for our sightseeing. Our children were all able to care for themselves at this stage which made travel easy for us. Seems the travel bug took hold.
In April of 2004 we took our daughter to Great Britain for a graduation gift. Our itinerary included tracking down her favorite author’s haunts in Oxford, The Cotswolds, Bath, Devonshire, York, Edinburgh, and ended our trip in London. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, and Monty Python thrown in for fun.
In 2006 we traveled with best of friends in May to Wales, The Lake District, Oban, The Isle of Iona, Edinburgh, and York.
We left our fellow travelers in York and took a train back to Manchester Airport and on home. Our friends traveled on to Bath and London.
The next time we traveled to England was with our oldest and his bride and with a digital Camera!
We traveled in 2013, 2014 and in 2022 and those trips are well documented on my blog.
On this trip in 2023 we will return to York but none of the other locations we’ve been to before.
Today, Friday the 15th of September we land in Dublin with four of our family for a new adventure.
I’ll try to post a photo a day if possible while we are traveling. Cheers and Sláinte!
The Nineteen Seventies
Continuing a Happy 70th Birthday Tribute to my dear husband.
We had a nice small celebration with our Colville kids and in-laws for Greg’s 70th on Saturday evening. Our kids called out to friends and family to mail cards to our Colville kids’ home to surprise him with greetings near and far. It was a surprise and so enjoyable to hear from so many. Thank you to any of you who are reading here for your wonderful greetings.
Now back to the Nineteen Seventies!
My birthday tribute for Greg continues with photos from the years we dated, toured England, were engaged, married, our honeymoon, setting up our first apartment, then two houses and our first major road trip from Southern California with stops in Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, and Niagara Falls.
My sister Kathy’s wedding about 4 months before our wedding.
Bottom right is the two of us with our first niece, Jenna.
The little yellow Honda was the first vehicle we purchased together as a couple. It is the vehicle we made our road trip across the U.S.A. and into Canada in.
By the late nineteen seventies we were in our second home in Huntington Beach.
Next tribute will be after we had children which started in the late nineteen seventies.
Remembering the fact that today is the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. We honor all those who’s lives were taken away so tragically on that day and the survivors who were forever changed by their experience on that day and the days that followed.
On 9-11-2001 We were living in Kenmore, Washington. We lived in this house until 2018. Never Forget!
The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns ~ Hymn
The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns
The head that once was crowned with thorns
Is crowned with glory now;
A royal diadem adorns
The mighty victor’s brow.
The highest place that Heav’n affords
Belongs to Him by right;
The King of kings and Lord of lords,
And Heaven’s eternal Light.
The joy of all who dwell above,
The joy of all below,
To whom He manifests His love,
And grants His name to know.
To them the cross with all its shame,
With all its grace, is given;
Their name an everlasting name,
Their joy the joy of Heaven.
They suffer with their Lord below;
They reign with Him above;
Their profit and their joy to know
The mystery of His love.
The cross He bore is life and health,
Though shame and death to Him,
His people’s hope, His people’s wealth,
Their everlasting theme.
Words: Thomas Kelly, 1820
Twins Birthday ~ Waco!
On Monday of our Twins’ birthday long weekend celebrations seven of us piled in two vehicles and drove south to Waco. I was the driver of the ‘sisters’ car. The other car had Leonard as the driver with Greg and our niece Michelle.
Both Leonard and Lana were with us on this trip and they both told us we had to stop at Czech Stop for Kolaches on our way to Waco.
We were all so glad we stopped. I was amazed at the variety of baked goods, something I haven’t seen in a long time, and the prices were so good compared to bakeries I’ve been in lately.
I chose the cream cheese apricot kolache. It met all my expectations.
My brother expertly navigated us to the Silos, the Magnolia property. We found good parking on the street. As we walked the one block to the first building we heard my name called out and amazingly met up with Ken, Heidi and Nikki as they arrived the same time we did from a different part of the Dallas suburbs.
We’ve been the best of friends since the early 70’s!
Let the shopping commence…
Some of us found more to buy than others of us.
That Sweet Tea was a must and a lifesaver on this hot day. I bought the Mason-Dixon, half sweet and half not. 🙂
On the way back to our cars we stopped at the Magnolia Bakery to buy some baked goods.
Before we got back on the highway we met each other for an afternoon meal at Milo. The restaurant served us well.
Our cars switched around passengers so that we each could go to our prospective lodgings for the night.
Greg and I spent our last night in Steve and Lana’s guest suite and headed out for the airport on Tuesday morning for our flight home. We were able to drop our sister Vera at the airport, too, since our flights were close together but going to different parts of the USA. No delays and we made it all the way home after our hopper from Seattle to Spokane and 70 mile drive up to Colville.
Thank you, LORD, for an amazing time in Texas with so many of our loved ones. We do not take it for granted that we can gather and enjoy each other and encourage each other in our Faith. Thanks be to God for his goodness to us through thick and thin.
Twins 60th~Sunday
On Sunday in Texas twenty three of us gathered at Watermark Church for the 9am service.
The service was excellent with worship songs that glorified God and a message from the Word of God that challenged me. It was good to be together and to worship together.
After the service we toured part of the area where Leonard and Mandy work at Watermark. Such an impressive property that functions well.
From church we gathered at Leonard and Mandy’s for brunch. We had Mandy’s famous John Wayne Egg casserole and fruit and our sister Kathy had her hand in making blintzes for all of us, too. (Thanks for the picture, Michelle) This shows the first stage. After this stage they are filled with a lightly sweetened cheese filling (ricotta, or dry cottage, or farmer’s cheese) and rolled up and put into a baking dish and baked with butter and half and half. Rich and delicious. We were all full and content.
Photo above is from another time to show what the pans look like before they are baked. The photo below is how they might look when they are on your plate ready to eat.
We played a game answering questions about the birthday twins that Leonard and daughter Hope created on a phone app. We all logged in and answered the questions on our individual phones. It was fun and easy to include 20 people in a game sitting all over the living area.
Sunday evening we went out for Mexican food at Mariano’s Hacienda, two tables of eight and one table of seven.
After dinner our niece and nephew took us to the airport car rental center and I rented a car for our trip to Waco on Monday. More about that day in another post. Another good long day in Texas.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 