Arts to War

The very next day was another jammed packed day for Becky and I. We first tagged along with the SOA 200 fine arts course on their behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Albert Hall. I had seen the building multiple times…

The very next day was another jammed packed day for Becky and I. We first tagged along with the SOA 200 fine arts course on their behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Albert Hall. I had seen the building multiple times…

So, what do you do on Valentine’s Day. Go visit a palace! We decided to go visit Kensington Palace which is about a 10–15-minute walk from the Daniel House. We have walked past it and around it many times since…

We decided we just wanted to take a slow easy day. We slowly got our act together and traveled up to Hamstead Heath. Becky had already been once on her own, but we decided to go up on this cold,…

The next few days were a bit scattered. Becky made a quick one day trip up to Birmingham to give Mark and Abigail a little break as they both were not feeling well, and Jamie was doing great. She ran…

We headed out for the DH’s big semester trip to Vienna, Austria. We were all looking so forward to it. We had to head to Heathrow airport at 5:45 in the morning and this was made a bit rougher as…

We had nowhere to be on the next day in Vienna and everyone seemed to really take advantage of that. Slowly many people made their way down to the free breakfast. We sat around and shared stories of different things…

Next day was pretty tired for everyone after arriving back in the London so late. Some students had to head out in the morning for their internships. There were no classes in the morning which helped some sleep in a…

We took a day and relaxed a bit. I got caught up on work and Becky ran some errands, took a walk, visited with people at coffee shops. Then in the evening I had my time out with the men…

One of my favorite places to visit while in the UK is the National Museum of Computing, NMOC, at Bletchley Park. As I thought of teaching the Introduction to Computer Science class in the London, this location was going to…

I spent one day just plowing through all the work I needed to get done before running off for spring break. Becky took advantage of the wonderful spring like weather that was coming into the London area. She got outside…