Last Day out of the USA

Today was our last day outside of the USA. First, let me catch you up a bit on yesterday. 
Isaiah slept in. Dax worked at his computer. 
I walked to the Services on M6 to get Krispy Creme and Milk. 
By the way, these are 4.40 pounds for 3 donuts. 
They are so worth it!
Yes, there I was, walking back in the rain on the side of the road with a box of donuts 
(helping myself to two of them) before I arrived at the hotel. 

We found a grocery store to buy snacks for the next couple of days
 and we also hit a delicious McDonald's. 
We got back to the hotel and went swimming.
 Great family time for our last afternoon in Chorley. 
We finished up our evening with an Italian dinner at a place about 3 minutes from our hotel. 
We were the only guests in there other than a man who was asleep over his empty plate. 
(That's always a good sign, eh?)
An elderly lady took care of us and it was just delightful.
Before bed, we packed up in order to return to London today.

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This morning we got up early and drove to Lego Land Windsor. 
Dax wanted to reward Isaiah for just being so awesome all summer, 
especially when we were at dinners with his customers. 

Random Pictures from Lego Land Windsor--not very good quality.

Panning for Gold

Getting ready for our first ride together.

This is the first ride we did. Fun stuff.

Waiting in line for a roller coaster.

Waiting patiently on the roller coaster.

Some free play time.

We snuck a picture of Dax while we were waiting in line to drive the boats.

Isaiah wanted me to take a picture of this couple. 

Almost his turn to drive the boat.

He wished the boat would go faster.

Docking the boat perfectly.

Isaiah was not impressed with some of the animals--he is spoiled with the 
REAL animals we saw in Africa.

There were some really impressive Lego structures.

Amazing.

Patiently waiting for his last ride.

He was able to pull himself all the way up. I couldn't get my video to load on the blog. 

Dax enjoys taking candid pictures of strangers. He keeps them all, good and bad, and just calls the file "FACES"--this one is awesome. It is definitely one of his all time favorites. 
It tells a story. 
Sometimes God lets us see Him. 
We wish we knew who these people were so we could send it to them. Just beautiful.

Thank you, Dad, for an awesome day!

 Well, we hope you have enjoyed our blog. We have thousands of pictures to share and tens of thousands of stories to tell. Okay, well maybe not that many stories. 
This blog was quite a limited version of our weeks away,
 but hopefully you enjoyed "getting lost with us" on our adventures.
As we also said last summer, 
"We have made enough memories together to last a lifetime." 

We hope we have uneventful travels back to the USA. If we happen to get any decent photos or have any good stories, we'll post again once we return to the states.

(On a side note--thank you Quincey and Stacy for keeping Isaiah's cat, fish, and shark alive, handling our flooded basement, getting the mail, watering the flowers and plants, and keeping an eye on everything. Thank you, Mike and Mendy, and Shirley for the extra set of eyes on our place. And Jim, thanks for our ride to the airport,
 and Cathleen, thanking you in advance for picking us up tomorrow night).

Morning in Charnock Richard and Afternoon in Lake District National Park

Dax worked this morning, while Isaiah and I slept. After Isaiah awakened, we went for a walk in the rain to find something to eat. We were successful! Starbuck's and Burger King in a Service's area just off of the M6. We walked back and shortly after that,

 Dax arrived "home" from work.

We decided to drive up to the Lake District National Park/Windermere. 

What a beautiful drive we had. 

Random Pictures 

We must get our Snipe out when we get home.

1. Isaiah loves hanging on docks.

A very kind man, his wife and little girl (oh and the dog) took some time to visit with us. 

Yes, Isaiah still loves dogs and misses his Rotts in Africa.

Isaiah is wishing he could get out there RIGHT NOW.

"Okay fine. If I can't hang out in a boat, I'll settle on hanging with the ducks."

"How about we just take that boat out, Mom?"

"Or here is one that no one would miss."

We thought we would all take advantage of this opportunity.

Hmmph! Really? We have to pay to use the toilet? It took all the courage we had to NOT just season the sidewalk and building for free. We gave in and paid to potty. 

Unbelievable.

Since we weren't sure what this sign meant, we thought we'd find out firsthand. 

You know, the James Bond vehicle can handle anything. 

After figuring out we did NOT belong here, we turned around.

There's my British James Bond.

I was distracted all afternoon/evening with the beauty of this place and failed 

to take any pictures of the countryside. The stone fences are amazing.

I can't remember the conversation at dinner, but I'm certain Isaiah thought it was more amusing than we did. He apparently was keeping score, too. I think he's one up on us. 

Tomorrow we will repack AGAIN, maybe swim, and not sure what else. 

Wednesday we head back to London.