The Charlotte Times (at least for now): In the City

I know, I know! I'm behind on blogging, but there is a good reason for it. I call it EY! They are so time consuming, seriously I have barely had time to sleep a reasonable amount * so no whining about the blogging

*Side Note 1 - I am a "Jones" girl - meaning I take after my Mother and Grandmother who both think that taking a 2 hour nap a day is just as essential as eating 3 meals a day, so I seriously like my sleep ok peeps.

*Side Note 2- Sleep is extremely difficult to come by here when the sun goes down at 11pm and comes up at 4am - I need darkness!

On to the good stuff... I still have not written about the horrendous to fabulous clothes I witnessed at the Ascot Races. My first question to 90% of the women at the races is "WHY DO YOU THINK THAT FITS YOU?" I mean I'm not even joking when I say that every girl was wearing a dress that was ridiculously tight. And sad to say not every girl was Jessica Biel and thus, should not be wearing said "ridiculously tight" clothing. I have this picture in my head of an English girl going shopping for her Ascot ensemble....She walks into a store and sees this adorable dress, its about 1 foot above the knee and comes down low in the front, maybe even low in the back, and its fairly straight. She thinks that dress is perfect! I must have it for the races. She knows she usually is a size 8 maybe even a 10 on a bad day but since it is the races after all, she will try on the 2. She goes to the dressing room and VIOLA! The dress zips up....it may be down like a tiny little centimeter, but most of it zips up...I mean she can't breath but its a 2!!! - SOLD! She buys the dress accompanied by a hat that looks like this....

and she has her outfit. I am not joking 90%, 90% of the girls there were wearing a dress that was so tight you could not sit down in it. I was absolutely amazed - everywhere I looked - ahhhhh!!! More and more girls with body parts I did not need to see * Needless to say next time I will (a) not wear a flowy dress and (b) buy a hat with much more feathers and do-dad's on it! See the little black things hanging off the left hand side of the hat picture - these are like chopsticks with a fake mini-kite shape attached to the end of it that stick out of all hats. Please note this if you ever move to include "Hat must include chopsticks with mini-kites" - WHAT? This was so not in the 6 books I read on Moving to London and Culture Shock - London.

*Side note 3- I actually don't think they meant said parts to be seen either, since it was covered by material technially, but when you wear skin-tight clothing that is what happens!

Other interesting things about hats is they are not actually hats, they are really headbands that just have a hat with feathers and stuff on top - so it is like a "pseudo-hat" Anyway, I definitely had the wrong thing on the top of my head!