Travel Day

     Goodbye London.  For a few days anyways.  Today is a travel day as we are off to visit with Graeme, Victoria, Maisie, Iris, Isobel and the rest of the Williams family for New Years, 24 people all told.  We took a 2 hour train ride out of King’s Cross in London to Leeds.  The train was very comfortable and fast. Top speed was 125 MPH (yes they do MPH over here, didn’t know that).  We arrived around 2:30, took an Uber to their house which was about 20 mins out of town.  We didn’t get to see much of Leeds at all.

      As our Uber approached their house and accidentally drove past it, who was that crazy guy in shorts and barefeet running after the car? He even has a Windsor Squash shirt on, wait it looks like kind of like Graeme, yep that was Graeme trying to flag us down.

     After meeting the Williams clan and spending some time visiting, Graeme, Hannah, Ryan and I heading out the neighbourhood squash club.  Yes I said neighbourhood club.  There are apparently 50 clubs within a 100 km radius.  Graeme and the kids worked out on the court and I left to visit the grocery store.   When I returned there was a very large crowd of people watching them do drills.  I heard comments like, “Wow, this is real squash” and “Who are these guys?”.  I got chatting with them and next thing you know, they are buying me beer.  Awesome club J.

     Back at the Williams house it was time for present opening.  As the kids opened their presents the Guthrie were surprised to discover that Santa left us presents at their house!  Before long it was time for New Year’s Eve festivities which included a lot of kids running around, some weird drinking games (Ring on a String) and watching the countdown on TV.  If you want to see an amazing fireworks display, check out this display London puts on, wow!

     Definitely a different kind of day from the past few.  It was nice to settle a little and experience New Year’s in a little quieter fashion.  Tomorrow we are off to York.  Apparently it is a very historic little town about a ½ hour from here.  Not many pics from today but here they are.