Pics from Sailing Trip (Crosica and Sardinia)

Me at Helm......

Great hanging around day

I am back from Sail and will now stay in UK for a bit ....so I feel like i can settle a bit and that is a nice feeling. Sail was wonderful and soooo relaxing I don't think I have ever napped/slept sooo much and M and I had such a great time and good important conversations.

I am back and taking a few extra days to settle things before heading back into the lab here.

Today was the Perfect Day.....it is M b-day and I wanted to go walk to Grantchester ( a lovely meadow filled picnic area)......we went to have lunch and tea and cakes at the Orchard.....

http://www.orchard-grantchester.com/

It was sooo peaceful and nice, we sat and had nice food sitting outside under blossoming trees. Before we left I remember going there previously and thinking it is the perfect place to spend hours sitting and reading. We both have been saying we miss reading the occasional paper....so I went into my favorite local convenient store and found and US paper for me and a German paper for him... (which unknown to me was his favorite)!!!! So we walked and then ate and sat and read each other interesting articles from our papers.....It was sooo great!

Notes off the top of my head.....for me.....

I am looking forward to the sail......we will be at sea and I love the sea and water......

I thought about it....being on the boat...when we are out in the water and in no one's/anyones country. With M, I can just be .......with no words.....we are action people.

In the past.....Words have let me down and failed me before (well not so much the words but the people who have spoken the words..)....and the actions that came with those words did not live up....but M is action

I wonder what it is like to skip stones....out at sea. My favorite thing is skipping stones and I do it where-ever I can. I could do it for hours......and luckily M is happy sitting contently thinking and relaxing for hours while his girlfriend skips stones..

Rule is you get the most skips when the ones you want to watch are not looking.....so I say...OK don't watch me but quickly sneak a peek......

Sailing Away

This Sat. I leave for a sailing trip with M around the Mediterranean..... Sardinia and Corsica.....I am excited and I have never done this ...!

Here is our sailing plan!!!

Easter in Labo

Worked all Easter weekend......but it was quiet and productive. In France it is not the Easter Bunny but flying bells from Rome..... I saw both and they told me to go to the vending machine and buy a Snickers Bar....

Confessions....of a Happy Big Sister!!

I am sending positive vibes out to my sweet little sister…..who I will call Annabell……

Here are Random little blurbs……I would like to tell you about growing up as Big Sister to Annabell…………

1. I love to laugh but it is difficult to really make me truly laugh……but without fail the one thing that always makes me laugh is hearing her laugh……I love her laugh and growing up when she would laugh or I would hear here from the other room I would start laughing without fail.

2. She has the most beautiful green eyes that I love to look at and through some hope of genetics I would love for my future children to inherit……(as a child I attributed her green eyes from her being born the day after Saint Patricks day.)

3. When she was in Australia for some months I went over when she finished her work and we travelled around. That trip was much needed for both as we were both over worked and going crazy. We travelled around OZ and New Zealand….for 3+weeks and I realized that she is really the only person I could have done that with and not been sick of at any moment……. She is also the person I could deal with when we both got food poisoning……and somehow with her it was funny! There were things during that trip that challenged us individually… but the other stepped up into action and solved. (…some examples..for me….creepy guy from plane…..and for u bugs in crappy motel). I loved that trip mostly because it was with her and we have to do our childhood dream trip….we have had to cancel…..a billion times!!!!! WE Must!

4. We look nothing alike and are different in many ways…..but for some reason in high school all of the teachers (ones I never even had) called her my name…….This in my opinion was horrible….and I am not talking a few times at the beginning I am talking the whole damn time (and I wasn’t even in the school anymore)….. This is only because these people are idiots and didn’t make the effort to correct themselves…..I mean we look opposite!!! Nothing alike!!! …..so for her 16^th birthday I came home from college and I had a black t-shirt made for her saying, “MY NAME IS NOT …(Insert my name)……… Things slowly started changing after that. I get so mad about this…….I was so worried that for her Graduation they would accidentally call my name. Luckily they didn’t!

5. I always thought she was the most beautiful equestrian rider….errrr….um chick. (I don’t know what you call them….) but I would go to her events….and she always looked sooo pretty and tall with great posture and lovely face…..and that can be hard with those helmet things on! I was always in awe when she would come out as a little girl riding these big beast horses…..

6. She is my favourite person to watch movies and MTV/certain show about ridiculous people…..and since we lived away from each other we try to go see the same movie at the same time if possible….Now that I am in UK and she is in CO we need to plan this better……
7. Her choices of books....she has never led me astray with the book she has told me to read.....I always love them! I am about to read the book she sent me "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"......So before I read about unheathly sister relationships I thought I would relfect on my postivite one.
   

It is the best thing about being an Big Sister ....you get to watch this little girl grow up to become an amazing woman and who will always be your best friend!

Ok….so Positive vibes for Annabell……Miss you Love you!

Your Big Sister