Day 40 -- Monopoly Monday

              This week the two middle boys are on holiday!  This means that we get to play everyday!  So I woke up, and began a game of Monopoly with James and Luke.  We finished four hours later; victory was mine.  After that, the boys spent the next three hours of their lives washing dishes.  There were not many dishes, but apparently it takes that long when you get into little tiffs every five second.  It was quite humorous to watch just because they fought over the craziest things!  Then, after the parents got home, we all played on the trampoline pretending to be whatever animal Samuel called out.  If he said, "Cow", we would have to dance like a cow.  I had fun!

Day 39 -- Ooh La La

           So I went to church again today.  I love it.  Dustin let me borrow another CD,  Foster the People!  They are great!  I think that my favorite song on the album, Torches, is I Would Do Anything For You.  And he is right; its just like Summer!

Day 38 -- The Path to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.

            We drove home to Manchester this morning!  I read the whole way back.  After taking a rather long nap in my bed, Michelle, Andrew, Luke, and Samuel took me to the Preston Temple!  It was seriously gorgeous.  But I had the crack-up of a life time.  In the car on the way to the temple, Luke was sitting reading The Friend (an LDS magazine) while singing Highway To Hell!  I couldn’t stop laughing in the back seat.  You should have been there.

          Tonight Michelle made taco salads; she hand-made the shells and everything!  They tasted fabulous!  I have to make these sometime.  I also tried various types of treats.  A strawberry scone and a tea cakes!  So good!

The tradition is that you shove the whole cake in your mouth all at once!  I don't have a big mouth so it was difficult.   And rather painful.  Michelle documented it for a laugh, thanks.

            Also, I skyped my mom earlier tonight.  She had been begging me to send her a postcard for the past month.  I told her that I wrote one out, and even put a stamp on it!  I thought that this was good progress.  She simply replied, “The path to hell is paved with good intentions.”  I laughed.

Day 37 -- Brugge

                               Woke up and left the resort!  Took a group photo of everyone who was in our party,

 then drove to Brugge, a lovely city in Belgium.

 Okay now for the best ever.  We walked into the Church Of Our Lady in Belgium while exploring the city.  And inside sat Michelangelo's "Madonna and Child" Sculpture.  The REAL deal!  It was so incredibly spectacular to see an original by him.  The feeling was unreal.  I've only seen pictures of these types of things!  Learn more on this trusty website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_of_Bruges

I was flustered and didn't know what to say.  So I naturally wrote something dumb.  And switched the L and E around in "candel".  Whoops.

  Elena and I strolled around the street and bought the most delicious ice cream!  We’re so unpredictable.  I got tiramisu, vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate; my first four scoop ice cream cone ever!

  I also bought one chocolate bar with raspberries stuck to it.  Yum.  

Then we drove to Calais, France where we caught a ferry back to England!  We shopped in the ferry’s shop and bought Clinique make-up (it’s cheaper on the ferry because they don’t charge some type of tax)!  Then we sat outside on the desk and read some more of our addictive books while the mist knotted my hair.

                                That night I spent the night in Michelle’s mom’s haunted house.  Don’t get too scared, it is the coolest house of all time!  I slept in a bed that was nearly 150 years old!  Not the mattress…just the frame.  Everything about the house was so unique and cute.  I want it!  I just wouldn’t want the ghosts to come with it.