Over Christmas, Chris and I finally tried our 19 year aged cheddar that my parents got us in late November when we visited Wisconsin. We waited so long because we had been on a diet over Advent. Being on a…
Jess’s Parents’ Arrival In Arizona
Like Chris’s parents, mine managed to come on what was then the hottest week of the year up to that point, but being June and not April, this meant 110-118 range rather than the low 100s. In both cases, this…
Minor Differences: Bread and Cheese
A common complaint of the British when visiting the US is that the bread and the cheese are terrible. British people I have spoken to often seem to think most American cheese is that really processed rubbery stuff or at…
School Robotics Clubs
As some of our readers who also follow our instagram may know, my dad mentors a high school robotics club. I weirdly was in Wisconsin at that same time that they ran into the former speaker of the US house…
Travelling to England
We’ve gone back to Britain to visit for Christmas. It will only be my second UK Christmas and Chris’s first one in a while, so we really looking forward to it. Here is a short video of our journey from…
Minor Differences: Christmas Shopping
Much of what pertains to Christmas and its preparations in the US and the UK is similar, but of course, not everything. Here’s a video of us exploring some of the things are US specific to Christmas:
Minor Differences: Christmas Ornaments
The British tend to put something they call a bauble on their Christmas trees. Americans would probably recognize this as a type of ornament often called Christmas balls. The bauble or ball is just the beginning of what Christmas ornaments are on…