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• Oct. 7, 2007 - Our Tea party

It was a good week!  We finished up the United Kingdom in Children Around the World.  I took an extra week since I felt like we had not given it sufficient time.  We searched the web for famous people and famous places.  I copied pictures into a Word document and then printed them for their Travel Diaries.  Mark enjoyed the wide variety of people he found.  Mei picked the Princess and the Queen. I also shared my photo album of when I spent 6 weeks in London during college.  "Here is mom at Stonehedge, Oxford, Canterbury, having tea at Harrods, etc."  I quickly skipped over the pictures of me in the pubs.  They were fascinated by the coins I had saved and my toilet paper collection.  Okay, the TP is better now, but in 1980 some of it was like using wax paper.  They were especially amused over the pieces that had "Government Property" printed on them. We had our tea on Saturday night.  I didn't bother to starch the tablecloth and I don't own china or a teapot, but we had fun.  I even got the kids to drink or at least try some tea.  I made scones from a mix by Cinnabon -- yummy - but much richer than any I ever had in England.  I also found some crumpets at Krogers - you know, as in "tea and crumpets".  They have holes like English Muffins on one side and are like pancakes on the other.  Not all that great, even when toasted, but if you put lots of blackberry preserves on them, they are good.  Funny, I have never seen them in England, Scotland, or Ireland.  We also had some English cheese with apricots.  I liked it, but the rest did not. My dh said we needed some English music.  I had not gotten any from the library, so we went with a classic English group -- or maybe that should be a famous English group -- the Beatles.  We played a little of the White album.  My youngest two were not impressed.  My oldest was grooving and playing the air guitar.  I tried to get a picture but he was too fast for me. We are on to Ireland next! Paul and Mark enjoying some tea.  Paul had at least 3 cups.  Mark maybe finished one.  He kept trying it with cream, with sugar, etc. Mark puts some blackberry preserves on half a crumpet. Mom having tea - my cup doesn't match.  Mei took pictures of Dad too, but they were not flattering.  Those are the scones in front of me. Mei loves to pose for the camera.  She never did find a tea she really liked, but she had fun mixing them up.

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