Our First Weekend Exploring

This weekend was certainly beautiful weather-wise, so Scott and I took advantage and did some exploring. We walked the streets of our town Saturday morning and had lunch in a small establishment. I ordered egg salad on a bap. Hmmm.... Turned out to be a hard boiled egg sliced, with lettuce, tomato and onion on top. The top half of the bap (the bun) had a layer of salad cream (salad dressing). It wasn't exactly what we would call egg salad, but it was still good. Scott and I also spent a good hour or so climbing the hillside at the edge of the harbour. We ended up at a local restaurant and enjoyed a relaxing supper. For dessert we decided to try a British specialty: sticky toffee pudding. I will tell you it was wonderful. I won't tell you how many calories or fat grams are in a serving. Suffice to say it is a treat we will enjoy on rare occasions!!
Sunday we ventured to church where we met some very nice people. It was "Mothering Sunday" (a.k.a Mother's Day), so there were flowers for everyone. After church we joined the congregation for tea and talked to several folks. The minister, a Scotsman, will be visiting Minnesota this summer. He will be refereeing soccer matches and also he has an interest in the U.S. sport's team traditions of praying before games, so he will be doing some research as well. We visited another great restaurant for brunch, where I tried Yorkshire pudding. We had no idea what that was, and Scott offered to look it up on his cell phone, but I decided I'd rather try it first and find out what's in it later. Sometimes it's just better that way :). And, yes, we topped off brunch by sharing another wonderful serving of sticky toffee pudding. It was "Mothering Day" after all!  After brunch we spent an enjoyable afternoon wandering around a local lighthouse turned into a museum where we learned a great deal about the history of Whitehaven. There were lots of hands-on opportunities and at one point Scott climbed inside the front of a mini-cooper. Needless to say, it's definitely not the car for him. All in all we had a fun weekend exploring our new home.

Sticky Toffee Pudding - Yummy!