It should feel like summer, but it really doesn’t. It is the middle of June, schools are out in Ohio and summer has officially started. At home we would have been cooking out, swimming and enjoying the warm weather. But alas, it is still cold here – the average high is in the low 60’s on most days. Bean is still in school and will be until mid-July. It most definitely does not feel like summer in England. However, we are planning a few more trips. One trip will be to Staffordshire, specifically Stoke-on-Trent. There are a lot of places in Stoke-on-Trent on my to-do list, but top of this list is the Trentham Monkey Forest. The description is: “the only place in Britain where you can walk amongst 140 Barbary macaques roaming free in 60 acres of beautiful English Forest. Walking in the park you are transported into a different world through close contact with the monkeys”. How cool is that? I can’t wait to see what the girls think of it. We are also planning a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. I have wanted to see Scotland since we first started talking about moving here. We have not made it there yet because honestly, there is so much to see and do that was closer to us, here in England. But now, I think it is time to finally take a trip there. It is a three hour train ride from where we live to Edinburgh. Our next door neighbors are from Edinburgh so they will be giving us some tips on what to see and do. I am really excited about it – it just might make up for the lack of summer weather here. Well, maybe.
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