Tripartite Shopping

Today was a meet-up between friends from the USA, the UK, and Australia! The world has become very small, indeed!

At 1130, we received the call we had been waiting for! Paul, Emma, Jack and Eve were at Mrs. Kay’s, would we like to pop ‘round? Yes, indeed! Upon our arrival, there were hugs, kisses, smiles, tea, coffee, and biscuits all around. We then piled into our two vehicles to go into the main center of York.

The Langstaffs had rented a a huge 7 passenger van for only 391 pounds for three weeks, a Ssangyong Rodius of Chinese build, it was quite beat up on the outside. Dru must not be doing too bad with her driving, because Paul and Emma allowed Jackal to ride in her car. 

Each of our cars had a disabled badge, which means we got to drive through the pedestrian areas of York. It was amazing to see the crowds of people part to let us by.

In the town square was a food tasting fair, lots of people milling about. Mrs. Kay took Eve to the Disney store, and was so happy to buy her a lovely pink gift.

We then wandered the stores, and the open air market in the Shambles.  Then it was time for lunch, at a place called Kennedy’s. We had lovely food and drinks, courtesy of Mrs. Kay.  

After lunch, we had a bit of a wander again, and back to Kay’s, where we watched the Cambridge-Oxford boating race. Cambridge won! I guess the power of Jackal’s T-shirt beat out the power of Mrs. Kay’s sweatshirt. At the beginning of the race, Mrs. Kay vowed not to remove her sweatshirt, until Oxford won.  We think she’s going to get tired of that sweatshirt! 

We then zoomed back to our hotel, and didn’t even use the GPS, Mom’s getting so good at driving to and from Mrs. Kay’s! The big thing for this evening was the premiere episode of the new Dr. Who season. Jack loves it, and thinks he may be getting a Dr. Who addiction!

Tomorrow we will wake up early, and we will go to the Easter service at the church near Mrs. Kay’s house, and then we will have Easter dinner prepared by Mrs. Kay.