Excuse Me

“Excuse me?” is what you would normally say when you run into someone or slightly bump someone in the hallway. SO, this morning I politely say “excuse me” and I get the worst look EVER! Apparently here it means something to the effect of “I’m better than you, or “me first”, or “get out of my way.” Yes, infact “Sorry” is the only appropriate answer in all cases you would ever think of using the phrase “excuse me” – who knew!? I should write a book on these things.

This morning I passed Harrods sign that said again “Pardon us whilst we re-dress our windows” – How do you pronounce the world “whilst” is it “While –ST” or is it “Will-ST”? I will have to ask my British friend, Nicola.

I ran into another encounter of not saying things right the other day. I was trying to tell our admin to send something to this guy Brandon. I said his name like 5 times and each time she responded “Brenendon?”. She sat down after the 5th time and waited for like 10 min., they typed me a message saying “Brendon?” – SO FUNNY! I mean, obviously I am not saying these names right over here. But on a positive note I have not been called IAN in a while – yeah for that.

Last night our friend Eric was supposed to come over for dinner. Burr, Eric, and I were all trying to get out of work and to our house by 8pm for dinner. Well about 7:15 Burr calls and says someone laid down under the train and the line to our stop was completely shutdown! Seriously? I mean this whole tube business is worse than 77/85, etc. at 5:30pm on Friday night. *

*Side Note 1 – 77 and 85 are the 2 major highways in CLT. There is not an equivalent in KS that I know of because there is not traffic in KS and if anyone tells you differently they are LYING. Take it from me…when I first got to CLT, I thought the lanes had literally shrunk sizes from the KS lanes, but no it was just way way too many cars on the road.

I think Burr forgot some very key elements to our Portugal trip.

1. The fish I ordered Friday night had the head on it. Don’t you just love knowing you are eating a dead fish?! Its hard to eat with eyes staring back you, thankfully we ordered a pitcher of sangria to wash it down with!

2. Our hotel room (aka: luxury suite) was at least 3 times the size of our flat and now I feel Closter phobic in ours. Can I live in a luxury suite please?

3. The large bottle of water we purchased Friday at the resort was £5.50 and the EXACT same bottle we purchased at the Portugal store off the resort was £0.21 – do we see a problem with this?! Seriously

4. The pina coladas at the hotel were bad. Really terrible, esp. considering they were so expensive. Steve, can you please fly over here and make me one of your special ones?

5. The hotel has an MTV channel that plays “I Love the 80’s” the entire time we were there. There was quite a lot of Paula Abdul and Michael Jackson playing. Since, Burr and I had just had the privilege of seeing the show, “Thriller” in London we did our own dance. (PS – I’m way better than him at the thriller moves)

Basically it was a very fun trip.

The rest of the week I have 2 work happy hours and we are supposed to go to Ascot this weekend.

Miss you all!
Lots of Love,
Anne