The British are coming!

On our last night in Maui...my mom...in her usual fashion, decided that my kids didn't actually *need* sleep the night before they leave on a 8 hour (that turned into like 10 hour) trip home. No, she decided to have a bunch of friends over.

One of my moms friends is from England. (BTW: I am totally speaking with a British accent in my mind as I type this...lol!) And her daughter and the daughters friend came over. They were about 23 and were super nice. I seriously sat with them and talked to them for the longest time.

See, I have never really been outside the US. I mean, you cant count Tijuana (sp?). Everyone always told me to travel and have fun *before* I had kids...but of course I didn't listen...I had other plans for my ovaries at the time. And I don't regret it one bit...but now I see why you cant really travel the world with 2 small children in tow:

1) Its incredibly expensive
2) Its incredibly stressful...no actual relaxing taking place during said vacation
3) You can't really go out and get piss drunk and come home and pass out (which whats a vacation with out that?)

So these girls where so nice and put up with all my questions about what its like to live in London, what fun things there is to do there, I was seriously THIS close to asking them if they know Robert Pattinson or Jason Stathom, and if so, could they please introduce me sometime...but then I realized how utterly absurd that is and I refrained myself. Usually as it goes, once I start talking about them, I cant stop.

I digress (big deep breath as I push the two British men out of my mind)

So now I totally want to visit London. Maybe in a couple years, when the girls are older I will gather enough strength and leave them with my In-Laws (Another Big Deep Breath for other reasons *wink*) so Chad and I can go to England. We will see.

I was actually kind of glad that my mom had all those people over (although they seriously drank too much wine and got really loud and kept my girls up to horrible hours) because I didn't want to sit around and think about leaving my family behind. It will prob be a year or more before I see them again. and it makes me sad to see how much of their lives I miss because I am so far away.