UK Tour - Part 5 Homeward Bound

After all the excitement of Christmas, we stepped it up and went on partying, harder, faster and stronger. It was great to catch the occasional break from it all. Here is Olive and Tom Jr chilling in Granny G'nT's telly seat:

...Ma and Pa's friends came from all over northern England for a lightning strike session...

...and then that was it. We were back to London on Mama's b'day. I got to meet her aunt and uncle and we -well, strictly speaking they- ate and drank Spanish food and wine. Here I am with Angela, my great aunt.


...then it was New Year's Eve. We had a good get together with friends and Daddy's family; eating too much....

...and some of us drinking too much as well. It came as no surprise that the two messiest revellers were my Dad and my uncle. They started trying to do Russian folk dancing and notwithstanding their obvious lack of talent, didn't have enough control over their limbs even if they had had any talent.
...Tom Jr's Ma promptly took uncle Phil home!!

The next morning we had the epic mission back to a very rainy Vancouver. Papa was very quiet muttering something about honouring his pal Buzzer with "silent reading" all the way home.

Yay Happy New Year!
Maya D~T

UK Tour - part 4 - The Throng

There was quite a troupe gathered over the days after Christmas with 10 of us actually staying at the house and with many visitors besides, there was a continuous stream of new people to play with.

We had flown in from the West Coast of Canada, Hong Kong, Czech Republic and Scotland to have one of our rare meet-ups. Papa had all his siblings together with most of their offspring...
...but one person was missing from making this complete. Unfortunately O.J. had to work. Daddy says he's really nice too and he's worth the wait. Anyway, here are all the girls Papa loves so much. Look at me, I'm smallest by 5 years.

...I also got to meet my two cousins Tom. That's me with Tom Sr in the first photo and here I am with Tom Jr. He's just one month older than me....I even got to meet the Real Doctor and Alison and Papa's other godmother, Anna-Maria. Here Anna-Maria and I are hanging out in the kitchen.

Even though it was short, it was such fun hanging out with everyone. One day Olive dressed up as a magical fairy princess...

...and started turning everyone into frogs except for Daddy who she turned into a "fine and decent man!"

Mama thought that was hysterical.

I wonder why she thought that was so funny??

Maya D~T

UK Tour - Part 3 - Christmas

Wow, finally we arrived at Granny G'Ann'T's house after an epic sleep... er I mean drive, through a foggy England. Granny had given up her bedroom for the old folks and me, which was really cool because it has an awesome en suite. Of course it does, Daddy designed it that way!!

Naturally, Granny was pleased to see all of us. Uncle Tim and his gang -auntie V and Olive- flew in from HK the next day and he gave us the motivation to make it to Midnight Mass. It was a High Anglican service in a half-empty really old church. They were making smoke bombs and wearing white gowns. I thought they were going to sacrifice a sheep or a young virgin, but instead Papa went and had a swig of the pretend blood and we all went home to bed.

In the morning we all got up and opened presents. My cousin Olive was great and made Christmas totally enjoyable. Her Mummy got a super twinkly ring and was delighted - after that I sensed just a bit of tension between my Mummy and Daddy.

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Later that day, the Beattys, some really close family friends, came over and I got another cool (and noisy) toy. The grown-ups all ate and drank way too much and before you could say "Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special re-run" there was a small squadron of fat bellies snoring in front of the telly.

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On Boxing Day The Beattys hosted the return leg and we all piled over to their house. I sported my achingly hip new BABiPod top from uncle Rob -I'm so fly, I think I need to lie down!

The only problem with this top is Papa kept pressing my tummy to try and make me pause. Fool, my batteries were simply in need of a recharge... again... zzzzzzzzzzz...