Load up for the Magical Mystery Tour!

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So internet access is not nearly as simple as we were hoping. In fact, we are down here at Lisa's office on her computer while she is in a meeting, and I'm going to try and knock out this post quickly before she comes and wants to do some kind of "work" or something...

Last Thursday we jumped on the bus to the town of Crewe outside our flat, which you can see here...
Here we are at the bus stop itself...

Once we got to Crewe, we jumped on the Northen Midlands train for Liverpool, home of The Beatles! We got there and got our bearings, and headed to the Cavern district. If you are among the uninitiated, the Cavern is the Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool where the The Beatles really cut their teeth in the music world. Here are some pics from there, from in front of the club (which is actually a recreation, but that's ok), and with the statue of John Lennon...

And, after we finished there, we strolled down to the Albert Dock and got a little history in the Maritime Museum before loading up for the Magical Mystery Tour. It took us all over Liverpool and to the homesites of all the bandmates. It was fascinating, check it out...





This is out front of the house George grew up in, people live there now, but they don't seem to mind company...



This is the house John Lennon lived in, it backed up to the wall of a children's home called, well, check the picture below this one...




This is our guide talking out in front of Paul's house about how John and Paul met and started writing songs there. Paul still stays in this house when he comes to Liverpool, which is more often than you would think.

All in all, we had a blast in Liverpool. We got home late and crashed into bed. Stoke City beat Newcastle United in their version of football on Sunday, which did nothing to make up for the Bulldogs performance that I had to read about on the internet, because there's not much chance of seeing any American football anywhere around here. We're having a great time, let us hear from you....Grizdawg out.

Fightin' the Jetlag and winning!

Cheerio all! We landed at Manchester at 8:45 am pretty rundown and ragged, and made it through the checkpoint pretty easy. Our car was there to meet us, and we cruised right to our new flat on campus at Keele University. There's a bus stop right outside our new digs, and we rested a bit then hopped on the first bus that came by and headed into Newcastle-Under-Lyme, our nearest-by town.
We hit a few shops for some staple items, including an airbed for Savannah, and we got some surprisingly good grub at a pub that looked surprisingly Applebee's-ish. We found the bus home after the grocery store and had time to walk a bit after the rain finally quit. Just around the corner from the flat, and a short walk through a field, there is a tiny village that is actually the old town of Keele itself. Not much there, but there is a pub with a billiard table called the Sneyd Arms. Ah, how I've missed cider...that's made from apples kids...
We went to bed at 8, after being up longer than I have in a hundred years, and we slept until 10 this morning. We haven't got the wireless working in the flat yet, but we got to some computers in Lisa's psychology building. That pretty much brings you up to speed, I'll try to put some pics up when I can...must toddle off now.
Grizdawg Out.

Look for Us at the Ryder Cup

One week until we hop the pond, and Sawyer and I have plans for the first Friday in October already...We will be with Tiger, Phil, and most importantly, Georgia Bulldog Bubba Watson at the Ryder Cup in Wales. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the absolute best golfers in the world play head-to-head on an ancient links course called Celtic Manor. Y'all tune in on the TV for Friday's action and look for us in our Bulldog hats, Bubba just has to come over and say 'Hey y'all,' duttin' he?