This past month has been full of relaxing vacation time. It is summertime after all! We started out the month taking a visit to Hampton Court - where King Henry VIII lived before the royal family moved into the city of London. It is about a 45 minute train ride outside of London. It is a huge palace filled with extravagant paintings,tons of weaponry, and amazing gardens which really takes you back in time.

We spent the first two weeks of June back in the USA! We went to Charlotte for a week and got to see all of our friends and all of the Wolford family (including the cutest 3-year old alive, our niece Lindsay). Then, it was onto Hawaii for a vacation with the Williams' family. It was absolute paradise! We spent most of the week in Honolulu on Waikiki Beach. We spent the majority of everyday at the beach or poolside, napping, swimming, and then eating great seafood for dinner. Scott, Kim, and I even went surfing with Hawaii's best surfing instructor, Fritz. Not really sure of the validity of that last statement, but at least he was the cheapest! We also had the honor of taking a private tour around Pearl Harbor. The memorial is beautiful and it was a really moving experience for us all.

During the middle of the week, we flew over to Lanai and spent two days there. The island of Lanai is mostly undeveloped. There is a small airport, a small downtown (i.e. two streets), two hotels/resorts, and a rental car place where you can just about only rent burnt orange Jeep Wranglers! After we crammed ourselves and our luggage into the jeep, we arrived at what we all agreed was the most luxurious and beautiful place that we had been. We each got a lei around our neck and had chocolate dipped pineapple waiting for us in our rooms. We got to go snorkeling with a ton of dolphins which lived in a Marine Preserve right off the ocean from our hotel. Scott and I had about 30 dolphins swim right underneath us! The little baby dolphins were the cutest! They gave us golf carts to tour around each of the two courses on the Island so Coach Roy could see what his bum wrist was making him miss. He did hit one ball though - probably the most impressive shot that the golf pro had ever seen too!

All in all, it was an amazing vacation. The only thing that was better was getting to bring Bruno back across the pond with us when we flew back. Although, he had a little bit of traumatic trip (he missed his connecting flight and had to spend the night in Newark airport - poor thing!), he is adjusting well to life in London and is currently asleep in my lap. He barks a ton (shocking) but I keep telling Scott that he is just perfecting his British accent! We love and miss you all!