Wednesday, 30 July 2014

London, England, july 8, 2014

London, England



And I thought the US dollar to Euro exchange rate was irritating at $1 : .73 euro.  The english pound is $1 : .55 pound.   frugal folk like myself should not touch down in England, but i guess if the plane takes you there you might as well enjoy it.  besides, we were meeting the San Diego Hobans, my brother Ed and family, in London.  how fun is that?
Ed's daughter Kami is part of a soccer team that was traveling to Sweden for a very large international tournament.  They stopped in London to get warmed up for the tournament by playing a few friendly matches against local London teams.  Kami's whole family made the tournament a summer vacation.  They visited Paris and Ireland before meeting up with Kami's team in London.  we joined their party at the changing of the guards in front of Buckingham palace.  Their team was nice enough to include us in their full day of activities, which concluded with one of their friendly matches and then their bus driver going out of his way to drop CB, Corri, and myself at a suburban tube station that took us back into London.  It was a very fun day, and it was great to to spend time with them in a foreign atmosphere.  This trip was a huge success for the SD Hobans and the whole soccer team.

Buckingham palace


the guards, they are a-changing, in with the new

out with the old

Kami Hoban, front center, with some of her team mates and a friendly Bobbi

Corrinne made friends with him also

with ED & Dillon at Buckingham palace

with Kami & Bradon
CB, Kim &Kims's Mom Dee

Kim & Dee, having a terrible time

the london eye

 Eye from above

big ben
on their way to visit harry p.


these two love posing for me

my new hair-piece was not working well
Kami & team playing their hearts out

with Bradon and Dillon opon the grassy knoll cheering on our favorite  US team. 

sometimes she doesn't
sometimes Corrinne likes hanging with me






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