Sweet memories of last week...

Well, was just getting myself a bit down about being back at work and being knackered because the rota person thought it would be nice to make me do double on-call on my first week back from my holidays.... and then I checked out Kevin Porters blog http://kevloveser.blogspot.com and saw some photos of our US trip. We went to my first American Football game when we were there with our friends, Kevin and Erine, to see Dave's alma matter in action. Unfortunately there was a thunder storm and we were less than prepared for the weather. Despite this it was really fun!! I'll get through tomorrows 13 hour on-call by thinking of our next trip to Kansas.....

Ladybird's brought down midflight at charity gig....

Dave's band, "Ladybird's Can Fly" played (briefly) at Dundee Michelin plant on Sunday as part of their charity festival. Unfortunately some snotty neighbours thought the band before Ladybirds (playing mainly country covers) was too loud and called the police. The result being all music was curtailed at 3pm in the afternoon. I have to ask myself two questions: 1) what the point of getting a licence from the council for live music is. 2) how unhappy are people who disrupt a charity event like that?? Moan over.

Anyway - the three songs ladybirds did play were beautiful and i got a photo for the blogg. Check them out at: www.ladybirdscanfly.co.uk (there should be some new music on there soon too as the band are recording a new demo. Current music is a bit out dated).

Cheerio,

Jen

Back in the UK...

We made it safely home to Dundee on Friday afternoon after a fairly horrible trip. Our flight out of KCI was delayed by 3 hours due to low cloud in New York which meant planes couldn't land into Newark. This resulted in us missing our connection and being put onto the next flight to Edinburgh - not bad we thought. Then we had to endure fairly severe turbulence fro about 2/3 of the 7hr flight over the Atlantic. I haven't prayed so hard for quite some time. It got really crazy over Ireland when we had a short burst of extremely violent turbulence which even had the hostesses cursing. The guy across the aisle from us had a cup of coffee and it ended up over him, Dave and the ceiling. It was really throw you out your seat conditions and had me (and most of the rest of the plane) pretty scared. We were very thankful to land in Edinburgh.

On a brighter note - we had such a good time in Kansas and with Mom and Dad on our trip to Colorado. It was fun to see so many friends and family and to be there for Melissa and Clint's wedding - what a special day to be part of! We had great fun at the football (despite the rain) with the Porters and enjoyed celebrating Kevin's birthday with so many good friends. It was also fun to be around to hear Ben and Jess's "announcement" - way to go guys!

I had a bit of a close shave in Colorado with a male Elk who decided to charge me (I think i was a bit close trying to get the perfect photo). Dave says he's never seen me run so fast! I attach the photo I took of him the instant before the charge - his facial expression says it all. Also, I've attached a photo of a ground squirrel helping himself to our dinner!

Also, check out this nugget: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31916

Best wishes to you all,

Jen & Dave.