Brighton: a town by the sea

 

As you can see, the cold and rain have not kept us indoors these past days because we want to maximize our time in Brighton. Here we saw the main part of Brighton as well as the beach (with West Pier in the background: the skeleton structure left after a fire a couple of decades ago).  

Brighton beach has cute, colorful sheds and some of the most terrific pebbles I've ever seen. In fact, they are so neat that we plan on taking a suitcase full of rocks! ok, I'm exaggerating slightly, but if we end up lugging a couple of pounds worth of pebbles back to Houston it would be justifiable since they are so beautiful.

Christmas was spent British style, complete with the crackers tradition (goodies stored inside of a paper tube that you pop open) and wearing red paper crowns -I promise, this is what all the Brits do! The kids were very happy to discover that Santa had brought some presents for them (although we had forewarned them that Santa was delivering their presents to Houston).

We also went to see greyhound racing today, which the kids loved. Each of them would pick a hound to root for (sorry, no bets for us -British Pounds are too expensive!) and they loved the dogs' silly names like "Droopy Bertha," Guiness Rock,and  Big Suze.

Yesterday afternoon, the kids suddenly got costume fever and started to raid the costume chest. As you can see, they've been having a grand ol' time together -playing, bickering and laughing!

Tomorrow we head to London to the Museum of Science and the kids are really excited about that. More pictures will follow soon. Til then, take care everyone.