Interesting sculpture

When my stepmom saw this statue she said to me and my Dad, "the face in the middle looks like me when I was a baby and the face on top looks like me now." The quote was so great I just had to share it.

Go Obama!

I found this website on Facebook yesterday. Nice.

Homework is fun if you have helpers

Don't even attempt to knit at our house

When we're not traveling...

...it's all about the cats.

The boys napping

One of these guys has jetlag... what is the other one's excuse? Oh yeah, he's a cat.

This is MY school... UMN!

We are on our way home... in style. Yes, we're slightly annoying.

Quote of the night- Friday

"oui -- si -- ja"

Day 8: Mathing at CWI

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is where Dave will be working when we live in Amsterdam. So, we spent the afternoon here scoping out his new office and hanging with some math guys.

Day 7: Exploring Amsterdam

Today we rented bikes and planned to zoom all over the city checking out neighborhoods and cool potential apartments (the outsides of them at least). Luckily, we made it back to the top floor attic room of our B&B just in time to watch the storm roll in. Look at those dark clouds!

Day 6: Time to head to Holland!

We grabbed our brollies, jumped on a plane at Heathrow, and headed towards our future home... Amsterdam.

Day 5: Hampton Court Palace

While the blokes were conferencing today, a few of the ladies and I went to Hampton Court Palace. We admired the gorgeous gardens and had an adventure in the maze!

Day 4: Royal Holloway University

There is an amazing castle on campus here. It actually takes your breath away it is so gorgeous. I plan to explore it more with Dave when he is on a conference break.




All of the conference talks are in this building below. The last picture is of the dorm area where we are staying. There are rooms in the castle but we were told that the new modern dorm rooms are much nicer.

Day 3: Cambridge to Egham, UK

After a night of spicy Indian food and a drink or two at our neighborhood pub "The Old Spring", we woke up ready for a new adventure. We said goodbye to that old spring, which was much more springy than it looks like it would be, and we stopped along Tenison Road on our way to the train station to take a peek at the cute old house Dave used to live in when he spent a year in Cambridge.





We eventually ended up in Egham, UK where Royal Holloway University is. Time to rest up before a few good days of conferencing!

Punting on the river Cam

Yet another reason I am going to marry this man... he is an amazing punter! Seriously, he was really good at it, and I was simply really good at being a passenger. I am not even going to post the pictures of me giving it a try. It was embarrassing. :)


Above are all of the boats lined up. Below is Dave still not totally sure what he is about to get himself into. He hasn't punted for over 5 years!


The Mathematical Bridge. So fitting that we are going to pass under it.


There is my captain punter! He takes his job so seriously. Punting is hard stuff my friends.



There is me, the happy passenger. I could do this every day!

Day 2: Cambridge, UK

We started today off with a stroll over to Emmanuel College where Dave studied for a year after college before moving to Berkeley. Of course we had to visit the ducks.





After Emmanuel we wandered by some other colleges and found ourselves on Kings Parade.


Then we decided to head on over to The Backs to finally go punting!

Day 1: Cambridge, UK

After a long flight from SFO to Heathrow, a long ride on the London Underground (don't worry, we minded the gap), and then a long train ride north to Cambridge we finally arrived at our cute little B&B pictured here.


We walked around the city a little just to keep ourselves from falling asleep too early. We passed by the river where we will go punting tomorrow...


And, then we stopped into the Sainsbury's grocery store for some supplies. Of course I had to document some of my favorite strange British products like the cheesy hoops with potato and cauliflower, milk teeth and little teeth toothpaste, and the fairy liquid. Nice.

Getting our fix

My honey and I are off to Cambridge, England. It will be a quick stopover on our way to a conference at Royal Holloway University and then Amsterdam for some apartment hunting.

I can't wait to go punting on the river Cam!