I've got my eye on you!

Check out my new creepy counter thing that keeps track of all blog visitors down in the bottom left! Pretty cool, don't you think?

No soccer today, so we're watching tennis. But Roger Federer (remember, we like long hair) lost! Bummer. Now we don't care so much who wins. We are just rooting for more 11 hour matches.

Love,

Gertrude

Toy Story 3

Time for a new feature on the blog -- movie reviews. Gigi and I went to see Toy Story 3 last night. We loved it! But I have to admit we are rather biased in favor of movies where toys come to life and have exciting adventures. It sounds vaguely familiar for reasons we can't quite identify. We really like the Spanish Buzz Lightyear and we're big potato head fans, as well. But what was the point of the 3D? They hardly used it. They just tricked us into spending an extra $3/ticket.

Stay tuned for more reviews.

Love,

Gigi

London

Sorry for the delay but we've been jet lagged and caught up in World Cup fever. Our favorite (Ivory Coast) was officially eliminated this morning, so now we have to root for Ghana. Gigi has a second cousin from Ghana, after all.

England was just fabulous. Gigi and I especially recommend everyone take a walking tour of Bath and visit the Tower of London. Those ideas were not necessarily popular with ALL members of our traveling party, but we loved them.

When we got home, that big hairy beast was waiting for us. Oh, is he cute. Did you ever notice you can rearrange the letters in Opus to spell soup? Pretty cool, don't you think? It made me like soup a lot more when I figured that out.

Love,

Gertrude

World Cup

Gigi and I have World Cup Fever because we are here in London. We watched the US make quite a comeback today. Go USA! But we are rooting the most for the Ivory Coast. Not only is it Lucy's favorite team (I must see how I look in her new Ivory Coast jersey, by the way), but it's also in Africa and, best of all, their color is Orange. We route for the Netherlands, too, based on color. But Ivory Coast's combination of being from Africa and wearing Orange really can't be beat. So GO IVORY COAST!

Meanwhile, London is very nice. We're near the zoo, so Gigi and I will head over there one of these days. Everyone here has such cute accents.

Well, off to explore. More soon.

Love,

Gertrude

Blog Rules

Dear Readers:

I'm afraid it's time for a little blog etiquette lesson. The blog is to be read by interested parties who are then welcome to write thoughtful, relevant comments that my readers and I can enjoy and learn from. For example, comments such as "Wow, Gertrude, I hadn't really thought of it that way. That's really interesting and useful to me" or "I just started a 'We demand Gertrude host SNL!' page on Facebook" are common and we all appreciate them.

However, not meaning to make an example of anyone or anything, might I just suggest that comments such as "Ah lovely. Just testing out that my account is no longer called "Oyster" and now says "David"... aaaand yes.. beautiful" are not what we are looking for at the PSoCB. Those sorts of comments should be made on your fantasy baseball site or perhaps on the Fox News blog.

Thank you all for your cooperation. And Happy Birthday Lucy, again!

My next blog post will be from London. How exciting!

Love,

Gertrude

Happy Birthday, Lucy!

It is Lucy's 14th Birthday!! Happy Birthday, Lucy! To mark the occasion, Gigi and I had our picture taken with the birthday girl. While we were doing it, we saw the hairy beast. What a rugged, handsome beast with such long hair.

But I digress. We are having a big birthday bash here today. Everyone should join us and send birthday wishes to Lucy.

Love,
Gertrude

Summer Travel

2 days until the big trip to London!! I am so excited. Plays, museums, you name it. Then we are off to Hawaii in July. And the plans are forming for another road trip -- Omaha to Memphis in August. Woohoo!

What are all my readers doing for summer travel? Do report in if you get a chance!

Love,

Gertrude

So, So Sorry

I must apologize for the time off. You all must be wondering what is going on. Well, first I was overwhelmed by the trip to the four states. We had a great time. You simply must stay at the Mayo (and spring for the suite) if you go to Tulsa. Now, I'm not really sure I recommend you go to Tulsa, but that's another story. This picture is from Fairfax, OK. It's a lovely spot but, despite the name, nobody is rolling anywhere in this cafe.

Then we got busy helping doctor David back to health. He got hit with the flu in the last few days of school. He's getting a little better at being sick, I will admit.

And now we are all a tizzy over Lucy's graduation! We've been practicing all day. We walk down the aisle while everyone in the room hums that Elgar song. We're getting a bit sick of it, to be honest.

But maybe the biggest excitement is that Gigi and I are getting ready for our return to London next week! We are ready to take the place by storm. We just wish David would come along, so someone would insist on going to the zoo.

I'll try to write before then, but there will be London updates (with pictures) for sure.

Love,

Gertrude