Two days after I got back to Prague from Sardinia and Corsica I got back on a plane and headed up to England to visit my family for ten days. Even though a lot of the time when I go home to visit my family I'm going to a home I've never actually lived in, it always feels like I'm home as soon as I walk in the door. I think even when I meet them at the airport or the train station. Home is a feeling not a place and it is most definitely where the heart is, not just your stuff. Even if it is really cool stuff.

Anyway, while I was there we went to the Great Yorkshire Fair, which was taking place for three days in Harrogate. It was essentially the equivalent of a State Fair back in the States, with livestock competitions, military stands, food, rides, you name it. 

Ok, and tell me these are not the most hysterical looking cows you have ever seen. Look at those butts?! Hahaha.

Impressing the British Army boys with my awesome shooting skills. I just wish they were real guns...

Rob getting recruited for the British Army. Lolz.

The White Helmets were performing there as well, so we went and saw one of their shows. Imagine the Blue Angels, but not as cool and on bikes. But it was still pretty cool to watch. I think the only time I'd ever seen anything like it was back in India... maybe that's where they get all their recruits from...

Cows have the most adorable faces. I want a pet cow.

We also went to take photos at Fountains Abbey, which is this really neat Abbey that is now in ruins. When King Henry VIII decided he wanted to divorce his wife and needed to start his own church to do so, he had many of the metal roofs of the Catholic Churches removed. Within a few years, the underlying wooden roofs rotted away and fell in, leaving many churches all over England in ruins. A bit sad, but hey, it's a really cool place to take photos. So maybe I'm not complaining that much.

I'll share the actual photos of us kids that me and my mom took in a different post. I will say farewell for now though. I just got back from a week in Sumova National Forest with the family and am desperately trying to catch up on all these photos I've been taking the last month, enjoy a few days off, and make the most of my last few chances to see things around Prague before I leave. Which is in about a week. I'm soooo dreading leaving these girls, I love them so much! But I get to spend some time with my family after this, so this farewell will definitely be a bittersweet one.

Speaking of bittwesweet, there's some great dark chocolate with sea salt here. I'm going to have to stock up on that before I peace out of this joint...