My parents came over to London for a quick weekend visit at the beginning of April. We had a wonderful day on Friday walking around London exploring - Marylebone, the Thames Embankment, Carolyn's flat, Canary Wharf, Hyde Park, Oxford Street, Leicester Square. Ate dinner with Cameron Hanson (a good family friend) and went into the West End to see Chicago - brilliant performance
Saturday we took the train to Oxford and spent a beautiful afternoon enjoying the sunshine and exploring the campus. With the folk festival on, the schools were alive with people and the campus was in great shape. Similar to Cambridge, this university is a conglomerate of colleges (over 40 different schools) with separate housing, dining, classrooms and enrollments in each. We were able to walk through some of the more popular campuses and take photographs
Sunday was my marathon ...not a great race but wonderful to have my parents and a few of my new London friends along the course to cheer me on. The atmosphere is similar to Chicago and DC with thousands of people cheering - great feeling of accomplishment - i am considering running Paris, Stockholm or Berlin next year - once i feel like running again :)
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