Lake Bound

Cara, Blair, Mike and Jeanie headed out to the lake on Saturday. The girls had a great time riding "Big Bertha" and feeding the carp. Wish Areta could've been there!

Hard Rock Cafe

Here's what Hill and I did last night. I've been a collector of Hard Rock pins for many years so we finally have a display.This will look "so me" hanging near my Thomas Kinkade collection!!Frankly my dear...After we finished and used over 100 of my pins, Mike asked "how much do these pins cost?"We have pins from Dallas, DC, and San Fran to Singapore, China, Phillipines, Italy, and Northern Europe.He is so proud of this unique display. He likes to display collectibles.When you come over next time, I'll have my Beanie Baby collection strung across the den ceiling!!Have a great day, and if you ever visit a Hard Rock Cafe, get me a guitar pin (with city and year please).And thanks to those of you who have already contributed to our collection and memories.HINT: Brother Joe, I need a pin from Jakarta and Malaysia

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm is built across 14 islands, this capital city of graceful bridges linked by boats is famous for its unique geography, architecture and the home of the Nobel Prize. Today, July 7th, mom and dad are in Stockholm. I got this email from mom this morning, "Bur r r. Have to wear jeans, silk tneck and my new st andrews wind vest and carry my coat today in stockholm. Hooray. I'm cooled off now. The ship is so close to the little islands and rock piles as we navigate into stockholm. I could hit a pitching wedge to the land. Rainy off and on, more like a heavy mist. Should be a fun 5 hours on shore. No group tour for mr hill and me!" Sounds like they are having a great time and finally getting to enjoy some cooler temperatures!

London School of Economics

Today, July 3rd, Blair will start summer school at The London School of Economics. She will be taking a couple business and accounting classes. Good luck B! Hope Arkansas taught you enough to survive over there! If not, remember all you need is a C to transfer the credit and not the grade!
Aerial photograph of LSE campus and immediate area: LSE's campus is center-left of the main road (Kingsway).

Sister Act

Blair's two favorite movies of all time are Sister Act and Sister Act 2. I swear she can say and sing every single line of both movies! Today, July 2, Blair will see Sister Act the Musical in London! I hope she doesn't start singing and get kicked out, or maybe even asked up on stage!

Here are Blair and Dad at Sister Act:

St Andrews

Today they visited the famous St Andrews Golf Course. Golf has been played on the Links at St Andrews since around 1400 AD and the Old Course is renowned throughout the world as the Home of Golf.

Tonight they are staying in this hotel in Edinburgh:

Tomorrow they are headed back to London!

Edinburgh - Day 2

Looks like they started the day off right with yummy breakfast...

...but not so fast. The yummy food you see actually includes some sheep intestines...

...which would explain why nobody would sit with her on the bus tour (thank goodness it was open air, right?!) Mom also tried to pick up this hottie in his skirt.........but this guard at the castle stopped her......lucky for her she didn't get into trouble and was able to see the castle at sunset......and then get to sleep next to this hottie...

tomorrow: St. Andrews

Edinburgh, Scotland

Mike, Jeanie and Blair are traveling in Europe this week before Blair starts summer school at the London School of Economics. This picture is out the window of their hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland looking at the Edinburgh Castle during the day and at night:
Here Mike and Jeanie are at dinner in Edinburgh.

And here are some of the choices of what to eat for dinner. If I were there I would totally have gotten the chicken livers! YUM!

*thanks to Blair for emailing these pictures from her cell phone! I love technology!

Hard Rock Calling

While in London Mike, Jeanie and Blair got to go to the Hard Rock Calling Concert and see Bruce Springsteen! Look at all those people!
Here is the setlist from the concert

Sweating in Savannah

After the SEC tournament we drove to Savannah, GA to visit Cara and Nathan. It was very HOT and humid. Cara and Nathan just moved in to a cute townhouse that is across the street from the dogpark, so Foster and Bindy love it.

SEC Tournament

The last weekend in May Mike and Jeanie headed to Birmingham for the SEC Tournament. We got to see a lot of great baseball and a lot of Areta and Allen. Jeanie also got to meet up with her sorority sisters Abbey and Brenda. During the game they called some of their other sorority sisters and had some good laughs!

San Fran

A couple weeks ago the Hill family (minus the new hubbies) flew out to San Fran/Napa to have a mini family reunion. The day we spent in San Francisco was very sunny and the clearest it had ever been. We took our "usual" San Francisco bridge picture. Attached below is a picture from long ago followed by one of the three girls on this trip.

New Grand...

DOG!

Areta and Allen just adopted a sweet beagle/hound mix from the Birmingham Humane Society. They named her Auggie, for August (the month they got married). Auggie is quite the escape artist and ate through her metal crate and tore the door off her plastic crate.

Gone Fishing

Mike and Jeanie went fishing in Mexico the weekend of March 20th. Jeanie caught the biggest bass and we had a wonderful time.