Coming home for xmas

I am excited to announce that I will be in Texas for xmas. I have booked my trip and can't wait to see my family. I regret I can't make it to CA this time to see my friends, but hopefully I will soon. Maybe even an extra trip. Below are my details. See everyone before you know it.

Flight Details:

Depart:9:30 Thu., 14 Dec., 2006 London, England (LGW - Gatwick)
Arrive:14:00 Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)
Flight Time:10 hr 30 mn
OnePass Miles/Elite Qualification:4,853 /100%
Flight: CO35 Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ERFare Class: Economy (W)Meal: Lunch

Change Planes. Connect time in Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental) is 1 hr 50 mn.

Depart:15:50 Thu., 14 Dec., 2006 Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)
Arrive:16:48 Austin, TX (AUS)
Flight Time:58 mnTravel Time:13 hr 18 mn
OnePass Miles/Elite Qualification:500 /100%Total Miles:5,353
Flight: CO841 Aircraft: Boeing 737-700Fare Class: Economy (W)Meal: None

Depart:13:30 Fri., 29 Dec., 2006 Austin, TX (AUS)
Arrive:14:31 Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)
Flight Time:1 hr 1 mn
OnePass Miles/Elite Qualification:500 /100%
Flight: CO1540 Aircraft: Boeing 737-500Fare Class: Economy (W)Meal: None

Change Planes. Connect time in Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental) is 1 hr 29 mn.

Depart:16:00 Fri., 29 Dec., 2006 Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)
Arrive:6:50 +1 Day London, England (LGW - Gatwick)
Flight Time:8 hr 50 mnTravel Time:11 hr 20 mn
OnePass Miles/Elite Qualification:4,853 /100%Total Miles:5,353
Flight: CO34 Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ERFare Class: Economy (W)Meal: Dinner

Slides and a pig.

I have some pictures to post. The first ones are of the slides at the tate modern which I went to with some friends on saturday. They were totally wicked slides. They had 2 on the second floor and 1 on each of the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. The latter 3 you had to get a timed ticket for which was free. The queues were pretty long, so we went off for lunch before riding them. It was worth it though. It felt a big like going down a waterslide, without the water (if that makes any sense.) If anyone is coming to London before next april, this is a must.

The second set of pictures is of a pig we ran into on a site visit to Burnham Beeches. I had done this with my volunteer group, heath hands. It was a great day and always appreciative to see how another site is run and managed. More on that in a previous blog.

Conkers and slides.

Last sunday was the conker championships on the heath. It is an annual event. I helped last year as a volunteer, but this year I was there as staff helping. It was great fun, with both kids and adults participating and enjoying themselves. A huge turnout. Basically, you have a conker, which comes from the horse chestnut tree, on the end of a string. Each person takes turns hitting their opponents conker. If your conker gets smashed, you are out. It goes on like that until you get two finalists who battle it out. Good stuff.

I found out yesterday that Tate Modern has a new exhibition in their great hall. It is 5 big slides, tubular, which anyone can slide down. They start on the 5th floor and go to the bottem. I am hoping to go this weekend to check it out. It will be a bit like being a kid again going to the playground. The artists reckons we need more stuff like this in our lives to keep us stimulated. I mean, if it can work when we are kids, why stop it? I wil for sure take pictures and post them. Should be fun.