whew! ok...lets see..where should i begin...first a quick woohoo to the RED SOX!!!!!!....and the pats too...well, we did england..it went by fast! but it was wicked (good). we went to the park and pushed little E in her pushchair (carriage) got to wash our pants (underwear) had a proper pint in a pub, saw a bunch of wankers (jerks i guess is a good way to explain it, we didnt really, i just wanted to put that word in my blog..hehe...), paid to use the loo (bathroom), heard about wags (wives of professional football players?), and saw big ben, westminster abbey, tower of london, london bridge all within 15 minutes! on the coach (bus). we also got to eat some fish n chips, which is all i wanted, and the boys had steak pie with a guinness gravy..yum! thanks so much again to linda for letting us invade her world for a few days! we can take over small areas very quickly....she has some pictures of us on her blog http://chroniclesofsquidgyboo.co.uk/

now we are in belgium. we did brussels. now we are in brugge, which is better, i think. we are probably only here for a day and then i think we are heading to paris. it is much colder here and it rained all day yesterday. so what do backpackers do on a cold rainy day in brussels?!........bowling!! thats right...we bowled..only 1 game..but it was fun. and of course i did horribly and to make matters worse when the guy typed in my name to the screen he typed Manu.....so while i lobbed balls in the gutter the boys found it hilarious to yell..."MANU MANU!!!" it was really funny...i laughed the whole time...thats why i lost....dan won..of course, but rayan (haha thats how his was spelled, but not nearly as funny as manu) was close behind. so after bowling we treated ourselves to a nice dinner at a restaurant...we have to do it once in a while! i had mussels (apparently belgium has good mussels...its in the books...weird...) and they were good, and the boys had dinner specials-ryan fried mussels with fish and dan fried mussels with chicken. it was nice to sit by a fire and eat a warm meal with veggies. we had a belgian beer too...belgians are known for exceptional beer...the restaurant had 45 different types! i had one of the beers from a monastary brewery..it was good. dan and ryan got the same kind as each other, but i forgot what it was, it was a lot sweeter. oh! we had belgian waffles too!! in the morning ...how could i forget!! yum!

change in plans....so we have talked about a change in plans...if it goes smoothly it will be very cool...we are going to do paris in 2 days, switzerland in probably 1 (its expensive there!!) and then vienna austria for 1 or 2 days....then budapest!! we have heard so many amazing things about budapest and it is only a 3 hour ride from vienna...so we'll see! our rail pass covers hungary so i think we can pull it off. we will be in milan on nov. 8th to see my parents!! wooo!!! so maybe somewhere down the line i can post some pictures...i know i keep promising...its hard when you have to pay for internet and like here at this hotel, its free, but there is only 1 computer...so my time is limited.

it just started to POUR!!! crap......it was so very nice out!! hopefully it will pass........

well im off...im sure now that the red sox are over my blog will be everyones first priority now. ha! and if i dont get the opportunity...........HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!