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This is just a post for family and friends to check out our new house here in England.

We are still moving in and getting situated at the moment. It doesn’t really help that we had the bare minimum before we moved here. We are now in the process of buying new furniture for the house and for our soon to be baby boy.

Here are the pictures:

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Have you ever wanted to take out your aggressions on your coworkers? Well, after being here in England for only a month I got the chance to do just that. The venue…Finmere Paintball in Finemere!

Nearly thirty-five coworkers and myself headed out this weekend to try our hands in a couple games of paintball at Finmere paintball. To be honest,  I have gone paintballing in the past with coworkers and it was only moderate fun at best. I must say that this weekend was very different and that Finmere Paintball does an excellent job at making sure everyone is enjoying themselves.

Located at an old WWII airbase, Finmere paintball provided the right mix of exciting games and terrain to make any novice paintballer satisfied. For around £13 I was able to play a “full day” with lunch included. I say “full day” because the initial payment only gives you a hundred paintballs to play with for the full day. The majority of us ended up buying an additional five-hundred balls for £30. You can also choose to buy a hundred paintballs at a time for £7.

Overall, I was impressed with the equipment provided and help from the staff. In all my previous experiences we simply went out to a woodland area and the staff brought paintball guns and paint for us. At Finmere they provided overalls, paint, belt to carry extra paint canisters, mask, gun, and gloves at an additional fee.

Our full day of paintballing started at around 9:15am and lasted until nearly 2:30pm. I would highly recommend spending a day letting loose at Finmere Paintball with some coworkers or friends. I know that I will definitely be a repeat customer.

Check out all of the photos from the day here at my Finmere Gallery.

Helpful Information

• Payment Options: £/Credit Cards Accepted
• Facilities:Gun Hire, Free Gas Refills, Goggle Hire, Hopper Hire, Overalls, Parking, Safety Zone, Toilets

Location

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Barton Hartshorn, Finmere, Buckinghamshire, MK18 4JT

Within a month of arriving in the United Kingdom my wife and I decided to go and see one of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge. After an hour or so of driving we finally arrived at this famous location and it was well worth the drive.

Stonehenge is located approximately two miles west of Amesbury and eight miles north of Salisbury. There have been many theories to the origin of Stonehenge throughout the years. Most recently the Stonehenge Riverside Project uncovered information that indicates Stonehenge was a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.

No matter what theory is correct, it was truly fascinating to stand at such a historic landmark and take in everything Stonehenge had to offer.

Here are a couple pictures from the day

Stumbled around the Internet and ran into a trailer of Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day. Lets see if this movie can followup the first Boondock Saints movie which ended up becoming a cult classic.

It finally happened, the Internet has been connected at our house here in the United Kingdom! Expect some new post of what we have been doing the past month or two.

I wonder how people communicated before the Internet. For us, it will be at least another week or so before our ISP hooks our Internet connection up at our house. I signed up with BT Broadband about a week or two ago and cant understand why its going to take a month to hook up an ADSL connection. In the mean time, we travel to our local library to use their free Internet.

I miss the speed of a direct fiber connection that we gave up when we left Okinawa and the incredible work ethic of the Japanese. No way the Japanese would let me sit around for a month without connectivity…no way!

Hopefully September will be the month we can continuously update our facebooks/mypsaces and talk on VOIP again. Because I don’t know how else it would be possible for two people to communicate without the Internet. 

Wait, I just thought of a brilliant way to communicate with our geographically challenged friends and family…smoke signals! That will definitely work for sure.

I recently received an email stating that one of my photos had been selected for inclusion on Schmap.com for a Honolulu photo guide. First of all, what the hell is Schmap.com? Well, I checked out their website and apparently this is what they are all about:

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. More than 90 million Schmap Guides have been downloaded since first release in March 2006: this phenomenally popular series can also be browsed online, with versions optimized for iPhone and Nokia users

The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides lets end users publish schmaps (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, syndicating more than 6 million maps a month – together with content and event schedules for travel, sports and concert tours – to a fast-growing network of websites and blogs.

The company’s latest releases, Schmap Enable and Schmap.me, go to the heart of the current mobile Internet revolution, allowing websites and end users to share mobile friendly maps with their visitors.

Schmap’s rollout has earned a plethora of favorable reviews, with media accolades including TIME, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PC World, CNET News, Lifehacker and TechCrunch.

Founded in 2004, Schmap is privately owned and based in Carrboro, North Carolina.

After checking it out, I think it looks a lot like Mapquest with interactive guides and photo’s. It is actually brilliant advertising on their end because they get me to write a blog and link to their website because one of my photos made it into their guides. I suppose we are both using each other because my name ends up on their website next to my picture.

The picture is of the Bowfin Memorial Park at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii . I took it this summer when my wife and I vacationed in Honolulu for about a week. Here is a look at it as it appeared on Schmap.

You can also check out the actual page by going here.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we made it safely to Croughton. I also want to apologize for not updating the site with new posts. The main problem is that we don’t have Internet access in the hotel room we are currently staying at. We have to take a trip to the base library every time we want to access the world.

So, expect to see a couple new post as soon as we find a house and get our Internet situation resolved. Until then, cheers!