Chips chips and more chips

Went to Burnley today. Derek lived here for 5 years and he showed us around... the houses he owned, where he worked, where he drove around for work, and the market and shops. Went to his old local chippy's for a steak & kidney pie and a cheese & onion pie - and chips. Ooh the chips... can't get enough of those!!! Jenn noticed the cans of Coke are smaller than the ones in Canada (340 ml vs. 355). So cans of beer are bigger and cans of pop are smaller... hmm! We won't complain about the size of beer.

Walked around the shops (including M & S) Picked up some tacky stripy socks from the market then had some cream cakes from Gregg's. We had a hilarious incident of a flock of pigeons flying straight at us while walking... only Jenn was the only one to freak out and duck... apparently a common occurence!

It rained off and on constantly all day in Burnley... 1 minute of rain then 1 minute of sun, and so on and so forth from heavy rain on the motorway to light sprinklings in the city.

We left Burnley and made our way onto the motorway to pick up Derek's mum... huge delays and accidents all over the motorways. We sat in traffic a while and made it right on time to meet Derek's mum. We had heard about a man sitting for three hours in traffic!

Met Derek's mum and went to supper... we all had the mixed grill, which was sausages, egg, English bacon, beans, lamp chop, tomatoes, mushrooms, chips. Mmmmm! Owen had pizza with chips... was also supposed to come with beans. Everything with beans, I tell you!

We finished supper in the nick of time to make it to Derek's nieces' (and dad's) dance show. We had great seats up in the balcony and really enjoyed the dance academy's show... from Ballet to hip hop to Irish dancing, lots of everything. Samantha and Charlotte were awesome! A highlight was watching Derek's dad dancing with the other dads... a can can and then they danced to Beastie Boys... very entertaining!!!

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jennderek on July 24, 2009 from Burnley, United Kingdom

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I remember beans as a "side" at KFC. Sounds like you're getting a little more than the Canada Food Guide's allowance of grease :)

written by Mom/Anne on July 25, 2009

Correct, but we're not in Canada!

written by Jenn on July 26, 2009

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