Hi All,
Thought I’d give you a quick update on my trip to England.
The flight was good – except my daughter didn’t sleep a wink and wouldn’t let me sleep either.
I love travelling. Just being in transit and seeing all those people in transit around me, trying to guess at their stories is exciting to me. If I ever pluck up the courage to actually talk to people, their true stories totally astound me! Really, you should talk to people in airports, the reasons they have for travelling the same direction as you are incredibly diverse and the stories of how they came to be on that flight are amazing.
It’s just my daughter and I traveling together and she is having a blast. There are a few things that I want to do and achieve while I’m here but apart from that, it’s all about her.
I’m piling on the pounds rapidly. There are a surprisingly large number of food items that I cannot get in California which I really miss, so I’m trying to eat them all…. in a very short space of time. Maybe I should feel guilty but somehow, I just don’t!
London was great, as London always is! 
I just had to take a picture of Rebekah next to this sign.
Her three favorite things thus far have been escalators, standing up while riding the underground ‘tube’ train and fish ‘n’ chips. Well, the chips anyway, she didn’t like the fish so much!
I don’t think I am going to feel the slightest bit home sick when I return to the USA. My belief that God wants me in California has only been strengthened by my visit here and, frankly, why would I want to be anywhere other than where God has called me to be?
I miss my wife A LOT! (and I miss my other kids too).
It’s very strange being in a totally different time zone. Here we are 5 hours ahead of the Eastern USA and 8 hours ahead of the west coast. After almost four years in CA, it feels quite alien to be so far out of the time zone again!
I also miss all of my twitter friends and being able to read blogs etc. I’m looking forward to getting back to you guys, y’all mean a lot to me!
In closing… I am so glad that I got to go to my cousin Kara’s wedding.
Kara’s mother is from Barbados and her new husband is from Trinidad so the wedding had a quite Caribbean feel to it. I’ve never been to a wedding where I’ve seen the bride and groom bouncing up and down and clapping as they worship DURING THE SERVICE quite as much as Kara and Christian did. It was awesome!
The whole ceremony just made me want to get back to my wife and start being a better husband, father, friend, pastor and missionary!
I hope that I can put that feeling into practice and then encourage you to do the same.
May God bless you and speak loudly and clearly to you today,
Peter
(The picture below is of my Uncle Peter and Aunt Shelley, My cousin Kara and her husband (Christian) and Kara’s brother, Luke. I’ll leave you to work out which is which.)
I’m glad you and your daughter are enjoying your trip. Get back safely.
Thanks Helen, we’ll surely try!
Thanks for the update- I wondered if you were still not seeing @replies on twitter or not, but you answered the question nicely. Hope you have a blessed time for the rest of your trip too.
You’re welcome Jason.
I saw your question on twitter and it spurred me on to write a quick post!
seems like you had a good time. I love traveling too except I never asked people about their stories. Mine is usually boring so I never ask other people just in case they ask me lol.
Completely easy to tell which is which in the picture. Looks like you have a nice family. Hope you have more fun on your travels!
I bet your traveling story is never boring. No-one’s ever is.
It’s always fascinating to me why different people are on the same plane as me. for example, sitting in the seats around me were:
Two Jewish people emigrating to Israel
A man traveling to an Iron Man event somewhere in Europe
A former international Cricket player also traveling to the Iron Man event
An English lady who had done her MA in New Zealand and was now moving back to England (it was the third time she had taken the 24 hour flight from NZ to the UK this year)
A couple returning home from a vacation – I didn’t get the story of how, why and where they went on vacation but it would have been interesting to find out
A father and his 6 year old daughter traveling back to England for a wedding (oh, that was me)
It’s all interesting, if you look at it the right way 🙂
so in the top pic on the palne is Bekah picking her nose or tellling you to shush so she could watch the movie 🙂
Glad to hear you are all good. Missed you. and Tell Bekah that Ashie really really really missed her. She was prepared (kinda) that Bekah wasn’t at home but when she found out Kallista wasn’t going to be there either she cried 🙁 but she ended up having fun and now just can’t wait for the girls sleep over night at Auntie Sarah’s.
To be honest, in the top picture, Bekah is probably doing both!
Sorry she wasn’t there for the 4th 🙁