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We made it safely back to Seattle, hooray!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

3 countries down...

Olivia has officially been to three countries: USA, England, and Wales.  We decided to take a road trip to Cardiff yesterday, the capital of Wales.  It took us about two hours to drive there and four hours on the way back because of a car fire.  The weather was overcast in the morning, then cleared up towards the end of the day.  We made sure not to use the stroller this time!

[Cardiff Castle]

[This castle visit we made sure to Baby Björn instead]

[Getting ready to head into the castle]

[Half way up]

[Inside the castle]

[Wales flag]

ZSL

Last weekend we attempted going to the zoo but ran out of time (they close super early this time of year because it gets dark so early).  Yesterday we decided to drive to a town nearby called Farnborough to take a shorter train into London and attempt the zoo again.  Lets just say we ended up making the last call for the zoo by one minute, 2:59!  The one tube line that was closed was the one that would take us closest to the zoo... thanks to David's planning ahead we had the tube map on his iPhone to make a route change.  All in all, it took us two hours to get to the zoo and we ended up only seeing the giraffes because Miss Olivia was hungry J

[Finally arrived at the zoo]

[Looking up at the giraffe]

[Sophie la Girafe]
*Sorry for the bum shot, I was watching
Olivia when the giraffe was facing us J

[Getting ready to leave the zoo]

2:34am

Olivia rolled over Friday night at 2:34am!!  Good thing we flew over so Daddy didn't miss a milestone... so worth it J

[Just a random cute pic of Olivia after a bath in the hotel tub]
*Thanks Papa (Grandpa Thayer) for my footie from Canada!

Farnham Castle

Friday we went to Farnham Castle.  It is up the street from our hotel so it was only a couple minute walk.

[Aerial view of Farnham Castle]

[Farnham Castle]

[All bundled up ready for the castle]

Major mistake... going to a castle with a stroller; what were we thinking?!?  Let's just say Farnham Castle is not wheelchair accessible by any means! Oops..

[Some of the stairs leading up to the castle]

David carried Olivia up the flights of stairs leading up to the castle, and then inside the castle as well J

[Half way up the stairs]

[Finally to the top of the stairs]

[View of Farnham from the top of the castle]

Black Friday

This is lame lame lame... wish me luck on my first day back to work on Black Friday.  Why can't everyone just listen to Christmas music and be excited for the holiday season?!?

Protest planned for Westlake tree-lighting ceremony...