The Joy of Toast

Andy's friend Karen is here for a short visit and asked what our kids eat on their toast. This brought about the shocking revelation that we don't eat toast any more. How can this be? We used to eat so much of it back in England, how did it fall from being a daily part of our lives into a memory? The answer (for those that haven't skipped forward to the pictures in search of something less dull) is that American bread, for want of a more appropriate word - sucks. If you spend $7 you can get a good loaf but other than that you have to make do with really sweet stuff that falls apart if you try to spread 'butter' on it (and don't get me started on the butter) or dries out in the toaster. Having said that they have fantastic bagels that you can't get in the UK. However, thanks to Denise and Bill getting us a bread maker we remembered this morning and tucked into some lovely toast.

We then headed out to Neil Park (yet again) so Dan could try out his new hockey stick and we could do some more ice-skating and sledging.




If you remember a couple of weeks ago Becky tried to brake a moving sledge using her face. Not to be outdone Dan tries to break through a wire fence with his face. Let's see how he gets on

Obviously harder than it looks on the Simpsons...

Can you tell we have anew camera with a better video mode - I guess we'll be posting a couple more videos than we have been lately. Ooh, look here's another one. This time Andy gets frustrated by Becky's lack of daring on the sledge so throws them both off - she is such an attention seeker.