Our next school vacation starts at noon on Friday and I can't wait.  For Easter we are doing nothing more exciting than lunch out with Grandmother and Great Aunt and Uncle which means a lot of talk about deceased members of the family. Cheery.  As it's Easter you never know.  There might be some surprises!  On Monday Grace and I fly to London.  I LOVE LONDON!  Grace has decided that she would like to go to college in only two places, Boston or London.  So this next week she is visiting some schools in the latter.  I will only be there for two days as her good friend arrives from Germany on Wednesday and I have been told, in not too gentle terms, that I am not welcome to hang around the rest of the week with them.  Can you imagine?  So Monday we will do a museum and then the theater in the evening.  Tuesday we meet her friend and they go shopping while I check out another museum.  Then I'll have the privilege of dining with the girls, (and undoubtedly paying).  Wednesday I fly out late morning and Grace and friend are on their own in the big city til Friday.  Schools are tough to get into in the UK but if she should be accepted, housing will be an issue.  Tuition is a breeze compared to the US but London is so damned expensive in every other aspect.  In their first year a student can have school housing for the same price of a year's tuition.  But after that they are on their own to find a place to live.  Generally students pile up in 4 or more in a one bedroom, squalid apartment in a suspicious part of the city.  This is something to consider.  I have to say I wouldn't mind flying back and forth to the UK on a regular basis.  I do love it.  Apart from the food.  xxoo me