A Wonderful Weekend!!!

This past weekend was Duncan's 30th birthday. So his wonderful wife Cassis (a.k.a The Mrs.) arranged the perfect weekend in the country. 23 of us drove out to Cotswold, one of the many beautiful villages in the country. It's about 2 hours Northwest of London. We had a group of country houses all to ourselves. The weekend consisted of games, grilling out, Wii, Karaoke, dancing, tennis, murder mystery, hikes, trying to catch sheep and plenty of celebrating. It was a very relaxing weekend and I am a little sad that the 4 days are over. But at least I get to look forward to Italy this weekend!!!!

Here are some photos from the weekend... Here come the photos....

This was where we stayed. You can rent out all the houses. It's owed by the same family and has everything you need. Even Tennis courts. It's perfect for large groups. If anyone needs the info let me know.

I don't get to see sheep a lot so I was so excited to see fields and fields of sheep. I was overly excited when I saw that there were sheep on the land we were staying. So I decided that I HAD to go hug a sheep.

They were not excited about me trying to hug them.

I found out why they were not excited the next morning when there were 4 baby sheep born that night. Yes, I know Lambs is the proper name for baby sheep but I think it sounds cuter this way. They were so adorable. They ran around chasing each other and ramming into each other. 

Grilling out!!!!!

Jon and I frolicking in the fields. 

Karaoke Night!!! 

Murder Mystery Night!!! We all had a description of our characters before hand so we had time to get our costumes prepared. I was Allison Williams, an old Hollywood star that was now a storekeeper but stuck in her past and called everyone darling. Jon was Pat Gaffney, an Irish land owner with a drug problem. Jon decided to go as a Leprechaun instead. 

The Debt collector and Cardinal

I thought he was still cute all green.I had to make my whole costume because I couldn't find it in the stores. So I bought a swimsuit cover up and sewed feathers to it. Then I also sewed them on some old shoes as well. It was fun to have short hair and be in character all night. Jon has powder all over him because he was addicted to cocaine, his character of course. So he kept throwing it all over him and screaming "Potatoes".This is in the little town called Burford. It's lovely. It was formed in 1088. Oh so old. Pimms and Lemonade. A refreshing drink for a sunny afternoon.Such a friendly bear!!!An old English Candy Shop. I had something called a Flying Saucer. It was NOT good.