Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone back home, and wherever else you are, has a wonderful day today. It seems a little strange that there's no holiday here—there's just as much traffic on the street below as there is any weekday morning. But we'll have turkey and all the trimmings with the students, and so make our own holiday. [Added note: check out Hal's Thanksgiving essay here.]

Yesterday I took the students in my sports class to tour Lord's Cricket Ground. I was sorry that the season was mostly over by the time we got here (like baseball, it's a summer sport). Since it's such a quintessentially English activity, it would have been so cool to attend a match. But this tour of the hallows of Lord's was a very good substitute.

Everyone was very impressed with the facility and our guide was very sweet and understanding of our cricket ignorance, as well as being an entertaining and enthusiastic ambassador for the game. He did his job well, and made fans of all of us! Here's a photo that might give some idea of the beauty of the place. The brown-ish structure at the opposite end of the grass is the Pavilion, which we also got to tour—a place we'd never have seen the inside of if we'd just attended a match. We saw the inside of their state-of-the-art press box, which was a big thrill as well.


There will be another blog hiatus now as we head to Germany this weekend. But the cards in our cameras will be emptied out and ready to record the sights there. And we'll be visiting more amateur historian friends, so I'm sure we'll learn a lot of interesting stuff to pass along to you. Auf Wiedersehen for now!