In late December, 2006, Jeremy, Bridgie, Madeleine, Fiona, Isaac, and Naomi Smith flew to what would be their home for the next two or three years….London area! Jeremy’s work with Xerox gave him the opportunity to work abroad on a project and the family jumped at the chance for this new experience. Jeremy and Bridgie had flown over prior to the move and located a wonderful older home in Harpenden which is about 30 minutes N of London.
(I must apologize for the quality of the pictures in this posting. I don’t know why the lovely pictures provided by Sheila and Bridgie are not coming through as cooperatively for me. But I am just learning about this Blogging business and am hopeful I will get better with time! …AB)
The children are enrolled in local schools. Unfortunately Isaac is in a different school and hence much of Bridgie’s day is spend delivering and fetching children from the two school which are in opposite directions and neither is close to the house. Here are the three oldest in their school uniforms.
They have been enjoying visiting different areas of England and this picture was taken up in the huge ferris wheel in London.
Here they are on a treasure hunt at Leeds Castle at the “burning bench” that the dragon torched….this trip over Easter weekend took them also to Canterbury.
The family also had a week in Tunsia. Bridgie is planning to travel to the Isle of Man for the family reunion the first weekend in August, 2007 and the entire family will help Grandpa Cullen celebrate his birthday in Ireland mid August. Meanwhile they are running a brisk B&B on their own premises and Sharon, Kathleen, and I are on their register for July 24 departing early July 27th!
