As a lot of you already know, Aidan (Lauren's brother) is visiting us for six weeks during his summer vacation. He will be a senior in high school next year, so he has a nice, long summer break. We’re already having a great time: we celebrated his 18th birthday, introduced him to our British ‘mates’, went to see Spamalot in London, going to Paris this weekend ….but we spend most of our time at home playing games in true Horstmania style! Our favorites have been Wii, Apples to Apples, and a book of ‘Pub Quizzes’ that we bought over here. Pub quizzes are quite the phenomenon, and most pubs have at least one Quiz Night a week. Questions cross a range of categories, and lots of the questions in this book are way too English-centric for us to even take an educated guess, like ‘who was the first Cricketer to score 1,000 wickets in international play?’ (I made that one up, but you can imagine!). Every once in a while, though, they ask a question on American-ese that we find hilarious. These include:
- What do American men put in their billfolds?
- Where do Americans put luggage in their cars?
- What do American babies wear on their bottoms?
And our favourite:
- On what day do Americans eat turkey?
2 comments:
Aidan--no head hanging---enjoy England and get to me when you can. Always love the BLOG!!!!!
I showed him this comment, Jan, and he was quite glad! It has been SO wonderful to have Aidan here visiting, and the time has flown by. I'm already getting sad that we only have 2 weeks left before he leaves!
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