Katie & John's blog: London & Dublin

Once we were back from Tokyo, I had about 5 days rest before I was off to London and Dublin. My friend Brenda has been living in London since Oct '05 and I've been meaning to get out there, my sister was also studying in London for the semester so it worked out perfectly that I could see her as well as Brenda. My mom and aunt Nancy also decided to make the trip, so it was a big reunion in the UK.

This is a picture of Brenda and me at the London Eye. The story goes like this --- Brenda, Kim, Bill and I were driving from Detroit to Chicago after Kim's bridal shower (so this was in 2003 sometime) and because it was a 5 hour drive, we began to play 20 questions to pass the time. Now, Kim and I would play 20 questions when we were bored at work at Ernst & Young (we didn't bill any clients during this time) and we got so good that we would only have to ask 4-5 questions before we could figure out what the other was thinking. So, we're in the car and it's Brenda's turn to think of something and between the other three of us in the car, we go through all 20 questions and then some other hints before we all give up and Brenda's like "It's the London Eye!!!" None of us had any idea what she was talking about even after she told us -- so here is a picture of Brenda and I at the London Eye.

Then Christine and I went to Dublin for the weekend and had a great time. Here are some pictures of Dublin

We also went on a musical pub crawl - here is a video clip of some of the music. The music is good enough, but what I really wanted to capture was the rockin' mullet one of the guys had