Every morning I wake up early and see if anyone sent an email .  

We rode the train to Preston and stayed in their accommodation center for 2 nights and did some names in that Temple.  Then we went to the Lake District to see where Beatrix Potter (who wrote Peter Rabbit) lived and it was so beautiful and interesting.  We had to rent a car to drive there because it was quite a distance.  The area around the lake district is absolutely beautiful.  It was like looking at a beautiful painting. I tried sending a picture electronically - but not sure if it worked.

Kelsey and I are going to take the train to London for the next two days and ride the "hop on hop off bus".  We are just 30 minutes away by train and it doesn't cost too much, so we will come home every night.  For 30 pounds a year, we puchased a "two ride together" card for the train which gives us a great deal on train tickets and driving here is crazy!  The roads are so narrow and every road has bikes and horses on it and there isn't room for the cars!  We don't have a car, but we ride with my cousin and her husband.  

We saw blurbs about the horrible fires in Utah and I'm so glad I'm not there for the smoke as it really takes a toll on my asthma.  Our kids keep telling us that it is so good we aren't here with the smoke.  In order to see the news here, you have to purchase a TV license - which we don't have - so all we see are the headlines on our phones and ipads.  If we try to see it - it gives us this long legal message telling us we can't see the news.  So glad that Stephanie and her family are doing good in the storm.  Every area of the world is affected one way or another by the weather or natural disasters.  There isn't a perfect place any more.

 Launa & Reece Murdoch and Kelsey outside Beatrix Potter's house

 Inside her house - just as she left it

 Later in life she married and she and her husband then lived in that far "white/yellow house"

at the Lake District - it is beautiful there.