About fourteen months ago, Rachel decided for sure that she would be leaving us for a good chunk of time and heading across the Atlantic to persue her graduate studies in English. And since she’s my sister and I miss her and because I like to travel, we planned a little Eskepherson family fun trip to England! YAY! It was a great way to hang with the fam and celebrate my final days in my twenties.

Just to familiarize you with the people you’ll see here:
Jonathan, world’s best husband, married into the family and still likes us.
Kelly, narrator; oldest and shortest child of Ron and Linda Eskesen.
Dad, um, he’s my dad.
Mom, you can guess that one.
Rachel, younger but taller sister (she’s the blonde one).
Erik, younger and also taller brother.
Grandpa, 88 year old traveling man. Father to seven, grandfather to way more and great-grandfather too. He’s up for more adventures and I think we might need to make that happen.

We departed Seatac Saturday May 23rd  and arrived to London Heathrow May 24th where Rachel was waiting for us. This is probably going to be several posts of info because I want to write everything up while it’s still in my mind and really, this blog is as much of a journaling exercise as an effort to entertain the tens of readers we have every week.

Here is a photo of me and Mom waiting at the gate before our flight:

and me and Jonathan on the plane before take off:

Dad and Erik discover the “goody bag” on the airplane:

Once we arrived in London, we changed into our matchy t-shirts so everyone would know we were together and we’re Americans. It worked like a charm! Also, the shirts were very nice to change into after a nine hour flight.

We made it to our hotel and found some dinner then basically went straight to bed. Travel can be hard work! Whew. And since I like suspense, I’ll end this post now. You’ll just have to wait to see what we did with our time in Jolly old England.