Haha.

She's very serious about it. She's already taking college classes and saving money. I totally support her.

It's expensive there, no?

Our rain makes wonderful green fields which makes some of the tastiest lamb and great dairy products too!!! We invented Cheddar after all.

Its alright if you bring a big umbrella.

This isnt dinner, its afternoon tea, but right now I'm in a tea shop having a big pot of tea, a warm scone, strawberry jam and Cornish clotted cream. Nowhere else can you get Cornish cream!

The US is much cheaper but our northern towns will be far cheaper than the south or London. I'm making a pitch for our wonderful northern cities of Liverpool, Manchester, York, Leeds and Newcastle (although Newcie is a party town that would unnerve me if I had a daughter!)

I'm sure SC will disagree with0 me though and say there's nowhere like London. It is pretty special to be fair.

When you say "school", do you mean university? Why does she choose the UK over the USA?

She will find some things more expensive. Petrol is very much cheaper in the USA, as is eating out and staying in budget hotels. (These things mattered to us when we drove coast-to-coast on our first holiday there!)

Paying rent in the major cities is expensive too, but if she lives in university accommodation, or rents somewhere outside of the major cities, and becomes a demon at picking up supermarket bargains and fruit and vegetables from market stalls, she'll be fine. We get a fair bit of free culture over here, with national museums and galleries being free, and she'll be able to get cheap flight to places all over Europe, like Rome or Barcelona for �50 return (if bought early with a cheap airline). She can fly up to Scotland in August and get free entertainment on the streets of Edinburgh while the biggest arts festival in the world is on, and she can go back for the free Hogmanay (New Years Eve) celebrations.

Tell her to come. She'll love it.

GOOD GRIEF!!

Of those cities, I know only York fairly well. It's a wonderful Viking city Brainy, with lots of Georgian architecture and a fabulous railway museum.

I've stayed in to Leeds, which I enjoyed very much, and in other towns in Yorkshire (elegant Harrogate, industrial Sheffield...) Yorkshire is called "God's country" for very good reasons! It contains the most breathtaking countryside.

Yes, Cheddar should come from Cheddar (Somerset) and Cornish cream is heavenly. Their pasties are good, too! (Actually, we have a thing or two to teach Americans about cheese. I don't know what they think they're passing off on us with that "Jack" stuff, but it ain't cheese...) Real whisky comes from Scotland and fish should come out of the North Sea, not the Gulf of Mexico!

Are your chickens square, or something?

Yes University. She's been researching yo join the air force to go there and/or straight to University. She's an adventurer. We've moved from the West coast to East coast back to West Coast here in the US that she's been flying across the country by herself since she was 7.

Well her stepdad (whom she considers her dad) is always telling her the wonderful stories of when he was stationed in Scotland. He would go to London where he loved.

So she's been researching. We want to make a trip there soon. She's also looking into the Foreign exchange student program
s they have here. She's very serious about it, so we will see.

My H and I are having very serious talks with her about the university life for a young lady.

My H has been having very

She's been what? Piloting her own plane and everything?

That's funny how that came out. Oops.

1) Has been flying on planes(commercial) by herself since 7 (escorted by the airline)
2) has been researching joining the air force
3) researching universities in the UK for some time now
4) researching a foreign exchange program
5) taking college level classes now and saving money

It's actually short for tenderloin. But they don't limit them to just the tenderloin, they slice the entire chicken breast.

Rofl

What part of a chicken is its "tenders"?

It's actually short for tenderloin.

tenderloin (n) :a strip of tender meat consisting of a large internal muscle of the loin on each side of the vertebral column

Holy God! Your chickens have tenderloins??? I know Texas prides itself on its oversized characteristics, but enough already!

(I'm afraid to admit this...) I love McD's chicken nuggets. I love cheap, shaped chicken nuggets. But, I will eat real chicken, cooked off the bone in a pinch.

Yankees are so jealous... wait til he hears our Texas chickens have nuggets!

Only the roosters...

Spaghetti

In Texas they ALL have nuggets!!

Fish sticks tonight. We always have family Friday movie night and watch a movie.
We eat fish every Friday to remember Good Friday

I used to cook fresh fish but the kids prefer fish sticks LOL

Fish sticks tonight.

What part of the fish is the "stick"? And, again, are only male fish so equipped?