Catching Up

Well I’ve been back in Cyprus for over a week and have settled back into the “island lifestyle.” I apologize to all the loyal blog readers on the delay in getting a new post up, but I’m now back into the metaphorical blog saddle again. The quick (to prevent carpal tunnel for me and boring you to tears) three week catch up is as follows:

• London We hadn’t been back to London since spending a quarter there in college in 1998, and it was really a great trip. We spent a good chunk of time just wandering around soaking in the ol’ British ambience. London reminded us of a clean, polite New York City – West Village of New York City to be exact with all the low lying buildings. The highlights of the trip were probably soaking in what we’ve been lacking the most…culture (theater, museums, a wide variety of restaurants). We saw four discounted shows: We Will Rock You (Queen Musical), Blood Brothers, Night of the Iguana (starring Woody Harrelson), and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (starring Christian Slater). Tea at the Ritz was also extremely memorable…as we gorged ourselves on sandwiches (crusts cut off of course), pastries, desserts and two hefty silver pots of tea. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to drink tea with milk and sugar since.
• Seattle In our four days in Seattle, I made my reverending debut by performing the ceremony thanks to my online ordination at the lovely Modesto based Universal Life Church for our friend’s Traci and Mike’s wedding. They asked and I gladly accepted. I performed the ceremony up in front of about 150 people and it turned out quite well if I do say so myself. Surprisingly people came up to me afterwards telling me how wonderful the ceremony was, or how “it made me cry”, and you “don’t do this for a living…” I'm not quitting my day job or anything :^) but it was fun and an honor to do it.
  

• LA/NYC "C" headed back to Cyprus for work and I spent a week in California visiting family and friends, and then a couple nights in New York catching up with our great friends D and Justin in NYC.
  

Whew. Well that, very quickly got you back to us in Cyprus and I'll be sure to get some witty entertaining blogs up soon :^)