Our little town of New Market

Saw this cute little car on our morning walk to town...there are quaint little cars like this around everywhere.

This is the home of thoroughbred racing...dates back to the 14th century..kind of reminds me of Kentucky a little...something like 4000 to 5000 race horses here...even Shiek Mohammad from Dubai has a huge farm here....there is a "salebarn" here for horses....and the horses sell for in the millions.....lotta money walking around here on four legs.....but very cool...Tom Jones was here last weekend...they have a little concert every weekend...but he was sold out and couldn't get tickets...oh well..

This was our favorite eating place...look at all the beautiful flowers...I'm in heaven....

Trains...Planes...and Automobiles....

Well....in our case....Trains...Planes....and Boats......

Leaving England...taking a train  to Harwich...which is a port side village on the North Sea...still in England....quaint little town.....that's where we are catching the ferry in the morning.....Then taking the slow boat across the English Channel (I think it's still the English Channel) to the Hook of Holland....(it is an all day journey on the boat...like 7 hours....for sure the slow boat...then we'll take a train into Amsterdam..where we'll spend the night...then we'll fly to Istanbul,Turkey on Sunday....be there for one week....wish us luck on our finds.....

This is the little village of Harwich on the North Sea...flowers are incredible

Found all these blackberry bushes while walking along the shore...craziest thing...so of course had to pick some....Bob was freakin' out a bit..."are you sure that's what they are?"...please...who does he think he is talking to? There we go again...something about "taking the girl out of the country..and all"...but I finally convinced him they weren't poison..so he tried them..well...he had like TWO...LOL "oh yea of little faith"...I enjoyed them immensely! LOL

 Then on our way back through town....we found this little pub to waste a few hours in.....had a few games of darts...drank some good COLD beer (yes, cold, finally) and even found a dude working a rubics cube...he was kind enough to let me take a stab at....I used to could do the damn things...and was going to impress Bob......that's what I get for being so cocky...I couldn't remember how to get all the sides...could get on side...but that was it....I finally gave up....maybe I don't have those particular brain cells left from the 80's....hard to imagine I know...

Next stop Istanbul......

See any resemblance????

Well....what do you think? Any one of these guys look like me???? lol

We rode the subway(The Tube) with the Olympic Hungarian Hand Ball Team....they were actually huge...can't really tell it from this pic....but just thought I would snap a pic and examine later!...you  know that mom's family comes from Budapest, Hungary....so we are told....

HONK! HONK! BEEP! BEEP! LOOK OUT.....

Well...not too much excitement today......except....I drove for the first time in England....yes, it does appear that I am sitting on the correct side of the vehicle (it's an american car)....however, I did drive on the wrong side of the road....."To the left....to the left....."....that's been our motto since we arrived.....when Lynn and Chris were here..it took all four of us to drive....one person driving...one navigating...one constantly saying " to the left to the left"....since it is very difficult to go against your instinct of driving on the "wrong" side of the road...especially when you see an oncoming vehicle that you think is in "your" lane and you think you are going to have a head-on collision....then remember...oh yeah, I'm in the other lane...

Anyway......yes, I drove around our little town today....Bob was all...."Oh, shit...are you sure? Are you sure?...."....and I'm like..."please....what makes you think you can do it and I can't?".....lol....(you can hear my attitude from there can't you?) LOL well, so far so good....managed to stay "to the left...to the left"....and made it back home without incident.......tomorrow may be a different story....but today was a huge success!!!!!

USA....USA.....USA.....

Woohoo!!!!!
Now let's see if we can get outta here without getting our asses kicked. Gotta wade through the 'Spaniards' wish us luck!!!!!!!
The boys did good!!!! Gold medals all around!!!! Woo woo!!!! Durant rocks!!!

Look for us at the Olympics....

Well we are back in London trying to catch the finals of the basketball games. We have 3 guys from Oklahoma Thunder playing for the U.S. and one playing for Spain. So Oklahoma is well represented. Someone from Thunder will have a gold medal.
Do u see us there in the stands ????
Lol just kidding.... Cheapest tickets were $3,000. So we took the train to London and found a pub that was showing the finals of basketball. Most pubs were showing stuff that Great Britain is still in.... Finally found one at 3:08. Games started at 3:00. But we are here now. It's halftime. Think we are up by one. Hope we don't get our asses kicked in here. See a lot of Spain's flags. Lol. We'll b careful.
Oh we did see some runners today. .... Just trying to be part of the madness!!!! Luv it!

The Roman Baths in Bath, England

Well....we were pretty wiped out from our jaunt into London yesterday....and no one was too excited about getting up this morning to make the trip across England to visit Bath...home of the Roman Baths...from like 2000 to 3000 years ago...its simply amazing how old everything is...so much history!!!!

The town was much bigger than I expected...but we loved it and so glad we made the trip.....definitely recommend going if you ever get a chance....

We took a tour around the Roman Baths...evidently everyone used to bath in public baths such as these...no indoor  plumbing yet..maybe....The water comes from under the ground and travels something like 25miles...then up through some faults...and they created these natural hot baths....the Romans lined the baths with lead to keep the  baths warm....so we couldn't get in Roman Baths.....you know....lead poisoning and all.....

So we booked our own two-hour public bath in a spa around the corner.....quite lovely....the first spa was on rooftop of the building and was pretty huge.....looked more like a pool that was heated....and we could see all the surrounding rooftops...and caught sight of a hot air balloon...very nice...then we spent some time in the saunas...there were four to choose from...and each was infused with different oils....like lemongrass, lotus, eucalyptus....and something else....had a nice time here...was so beautiful...the flowers around town were incredible...

You...know...another body of water...(this one forbidden of course)...makes me want to do it more... lol....so had to just pretend to be dipping my toe....but we did drink some of the water......just to say we did....it was clean and comes from under the ground...