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David brought me Chipotle from London for lunch! He DOES love me!
The verdict: Very good!! The differences: the tortilla seems to be wheat instead of white, the rice is brown rice with no cilantro, the corn salsa is not as flavourful, but there was a good spicy kick in the verde salsa. Yum yum! Oh, and the majority of the staff have been relocated from Colorado. I think I should make a Chipotle employee friend, dont you??

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We went south of Cork today to Kinsale, a super cute sea side town (village) that I can imagine is absolutely packd during the summer months as it would be the most perfect place to spend a warm day/evening and I am jealous of those who are able to do so! We then went even further south to a place called The Old Head of Kinsale - a little peninsula sticky-outy bit on the southern coast. I am so glad we made it down there! It was absolutely beautiful and officially one of the most amazing places I have ever seen. There is a bit of controversy surrounding this place as the very tip of Old Head is a private golf club and closed to public access... what a shame. I think I'll join the protesting group and write some strongly worded letters to someone about this. Oh, also, there is a small memorial at Old Head because this is where the Lusitania was torpedoed, which, according to Wikipedia, was one of the main reasons the US entered WWI. There you go!

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Candace got me these cool toast cutters shaped like dolphins for Christmas. Breakfast is much more fun in animal shapes! (oh and between two dolphins, it makes a little heart, so you dont waste any of your toast)

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We're having the "worst storm in 50 years" in Surrey and for once the Met Office (the weather people) got this one right. Its been snowing non-stop since about 11pm last night and now at 4:42pm, its still coming down very heavily. No work today and I cant imagine that things will be drastically improved tomorrow. Hooray for snow days!!

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For Christmas lunch, we went to a fairly swanky hotel with David's parents instead of cooking at home (my genius idea). I love the tradition of wearing hats on during your Christmas meal no matter how fancy of a place you may be eating. The tradition is that each person has a Christmas cracker on their plate and you open them at the start of the meal and wear the paper hat which is inside. On a side note: David and I went to Fortnum and Mason (aka the Queen's grocery store) and saw crackers being sold for £1000 for 4 of them! I wonder what kind of hats are in those...!

Oh and we went to David's parents to after lunch and played Monopoly (some new version where you buy famous places in London) and I won big time!! Look at my hotels!

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I had a tuna pasta thing for lunch that came with this awesome fork. It folds up nicely for storage in the box, and then unfolds and the little square thing in the middle clicks on to make it sturdy. Genius!