Where to start?

Yay, our suitcases were delivered today! They had still not been located yesterday but Jason said BA (British Airways) called at 1am last night - 1AM!!!!!!!! He didn't pick up the phone cos he didn't recognize the number but they left a message saying the cases had arrived and someone would call today to schedule a drop off. I got them about 1pm this afternoon (and have been unpacking and doing laundry ever since).

So now where to start telling you all about our wonderful trip? I want to try and do one of those flickr albums that Darylynn has done on her site. But I will need to look in to that over the next few days. For now here's a photo of us just minutes after we arrived at Brenda's house. Talk about being made welcome :-) Not only had they made a great banner for us (many thanks to Michelle) but they had also decorated the inside of the house with stars and stripes 'bunting' and had paper plates, napkins and cups to match. And then there was the CAKE!

That's a sponge cake made by Michelle (my nephew's wife) and decorated with fondant icing. Kristen couldn't wait to cut in to it, although I was a little more hesitant as I thought of all the hard work Michelle had put in to it for us. It was so good to see everyone. And if you can believe it, the weather was actually nice that day (and the next couple of days) so we got lots of fun time out in the garden for our first weekend there.