Another Easter in Cornwall!

THis year for Easter, we went to Cornwall again--with Meg and Dan! We headed out with the masses on the oversold train to Penzance, where we had no seats for the first few hours! Yeehoo! Here is the happy crew standing, then sitting on the floor and then...ummm...sleeping in between the seats and blocking the aisles with their legs.




Finally we got to sit down...IN FIRST CLASS (we chose to sit on the floor there and, thus, when things opened up we had a prime position!)


When we got to Penzance,we jumped into our trusty rental car and our trusty driver, Meg, drove us around England on the other side of the road with the stick shift on the other side of what we are used to. At one point, the guys criticized Meg's parking and took it upon themselves to park the car...and ran into our temporary landlord's car. So, Meg drove the whole weekend and there were maps in excess.


We also were introduced to fabulous Kinder Eggs, which have little prizes inside of them! We came up with a whole story for our Kinder Egg prizes, but it ws a lot funnier the night we did it than it is now...so I'll spare the readers.


A good get together is never complete without Cranium!


Our friend Vlad stopped by and did a great impersonation of Angelina Jolie:




And Jim hummed some Bon Jovi:


Team Avant won by a hair...but there will be a rematch soon.

Following our exciting night in, we hit the outdoors, where we almost got blown off of some cliffs by the wind and made it through hail and sleet...while maintaining our good moods!

The start of our walk:


Meg and Dan try not to get blown off the cliffs:



The first and last postbox in England! How exciting!


Some very cute pigs.

Some very cute chickens taking shelter from the sleet and hail next to a rock.


And Jim and some weirdo saying "Go On Git" to the pigs:


I was there, too!


Snacktime and shelter from the wind:


I'm not sure what was going on in this picture. Maybe Dan got blown over by the wind.


This video pretty much sums up the wind factor (watch closely as Meg gets blown to the side):


Probably not the safest place to perch in the wind...


It was a great relief to finally get to the pub where we saw this GIGANTIC dog (Newfoundland who, at 175 pounds was still growing and expected to get up to over 200 pounds!)


On day 3, we headed into Mousehole and climbed around on the rocks a little. It was still windy.


Traffic jam in Mousehole (caused by American drivers):


More wind:

And water:

And hills:

And more wind outside of our apartment:

I think I will leave this blog, as is, and carry on with pictures from St. Ives some other time. Cornwall is a beautiful place!