Swoop, Rosemary (handle tba), Curval & Son go to Farnborough

[Curval]

Well, now that I am back to the *land of the living* after British Airways attempted to poison me on my return flight (see the end of the post), I now present a quick overview of my visit to the UK with my son.

Left Bermuda on Thursday night.  Great flight, my son slept almost the whole way, and were duly picked up at the airport at about 6.30am Friday morning and driven to my step sister's place. 

The driver handed me the keys to my father's car and after making sure Trew was settled in at the house I drove to Farnborough to attend a lunch at a family friend's *chalet* at the Show.  I then drove back to pick up my son and we then took off for Bristol to meet up with Swoop.

Got to Bristol and overnighted in a hotel.  Headed to Swoop's place, picked him and his lady friend "Rosemary" up, and headed back to Farnborough.

Swoop and Rosemary:



My son at the show:



A little *Red Arrows* action:

[Curval]

A380





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmsIfSqRw4

Trew:

[Dago]

Mind the gap

[Curval]

Helicopter ride anyone?:



Vid:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si79n9FxmL0

[Curval]

Vulcan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ck0EDxFek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOlYC-yYPo

[Curval]

After the show we drove to London and stayed at The Royal Horseguards Hotel (Swoop got a way better room than me    ):



Did the London Eye the next day:

Big Ben kids...Parliament:

[GtoRA2]

Great shots Curv! looks Fun. Swoop looks like Val Kilmer lol 

[Getback]

Great Pics Curv. Thought your wife was Jennifer Anniston for a second there.

Nice looking family.
 

[Swoop]

That's not his wife.  That's my girlfriend.

[Vulcan]

Vulcan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ck0EDxFek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOlYC-yYPo

I thought this was a note for me with links to dirty pics of swoops wife.

Very disappointed at the lack of dodgey piccies curval.

[eskimo2]

Great pics, nice story, Pretty GF, cute kid.  Thanks for sharing.

[Curval]

That's not his wife.  That's my girlfriend.

Yea, my wife looks more like Lucy Lui. 

Thx Eskimo.

Vulcan...apologies, but Swoop wouldn't let me into his room with my camera. 

I forgot to mention that on the way home on British Airways we were served lunch.  Smoked salmon starter followed by a lamb dish.

3 or 4 hours later they served *tea* which normally I am "all over" because they serve scones and clotted cream, but for the first time in years I declined because I wasn't feeling too sharp.  This feeling gradually got worse and worse until I ended up at home and told my wife that I was pretty sure I had food poisoning.  I cloistered myself in the spare room which has its own bathroom and dozed off mentally preparing myself for a night of hell.

It started around 11.00pm.  Every half an hour after that point I was up to vomit...and not only out of my mouth trust me.

I *surfaced* about 7.00am the next morning feeling totally dehydrated and drained.

I, Curval, will never EVER eat another meal on BA again.

[Engine]

But they have clotted cream! How will you resist?!

[Curval]

But they have clotted cream! How will you resist?!

Clotted cream is delicious.  Better than parfait even. 

All I gotta do to resist though is remember how I was throwing up into a trash can while the force of doing so caused me to vomit from my butt into the toilet.

Enjoy that image.

[Engine]

Ugh... I've been there myself, and it's a horrible experience. I had to work to make sure the poisoning didn't put me off Shanghai wonton noodle soup forever... that would be letting the terrorists win, ya know?