Day 7 - 3/19 Brighton with American and English family

Today was a lovely sunny and warm day.  We had a family expedition in 2 cars to Brighton.  Everyone is starved for spring after a long winter, so there were thousands of others with the same thought.  Thus, we hit quite a bit of traffic.  I went down with Will, Annette and Ewan.  Mark drove with Chris, Katrina and Lewis.

We thought that Julia was in Rome, but, on a whim, decided to try to call her.  Luckily, Katrina had the number in her phone.  Lo and behold!  She was there, so she took a bus down to meet us all.

We all strolled along the promenade.  It was warm enough to sit outside with our fish & chips and burgers, as well as have an ice cream.  The entire family enjoyed some time on the pier.  The kids did well - tired, but happy.  Julie left to go back to her dorm and we headed home.  Mark and I switched cars as Ewan is quite taken with Mark, who he considers a "special person" as well as Mark's phone with "Angry Birds."

It was a pretty long journey home; we hit quite a bit of traffic.  Afterwards, the entire family, including Ken who had been busy, met at Walshie and Katrina's for take out Chinese.  It was a lot of fun with a lot of laughs.