Irish Raptor..I think.

I found my new passion today, Horse Racing. Today in London was the Grand National Steeplechase. I had never heard of it before but when Ian (the dad) starting telling me about it I knew I wanted to watch. It is a 4 mile horse race where the horses have to jump 30 fences made of spruce pine branches that are about 5 ft. tall. You really can't grasp the severity of the jumps until you see a horse stand next to it and realize that it's amazingly difficult for a horse with a jockey on it's back can jump that high. Anyways, I bet my first horse race today and I bet on 2 horses, both were from Ireland and one was Irish Raptor and the other, Offshore Account. I liked the names. Unfortunatly I lost, but both of my horses were leading at one point during the race so I wasn't too far off for my first bet. Forty horses started out and only 17 finished the race, one also died of exhaustion. It is a really difficult race and most trainers train their horses years for this day. Like I said, I found my passion.
Other than horse racing today, I went into town again. I bought a couple of books, one for Megan (the girl, 11) I got her the first Twilight book so I hope she likes it. She has taken up with me well. She loves dance and theater and books so we are kind of a match.
I also played football/soccer with the boys today. I only scored one goal though. For 6 year olds they pretty much kick my butt. But they are a lot of fun and they come up with the cleverest things to say. Twin boys are a lot of fun but they are defanitly double the trouble.
I am really surprised how this family has taken me in. We eat dinner and watch tv at night together and I feel as if I have been here for a long time. I joke with them and can be silly with them and they just laigh along with me. I am starting to feel right at home.
Tomorrow is my day off and I am not sure what I am going to do yet. I would like to ride the train somewhere but I want to save my money because on Weds. we are heading to London.
There are so many things in this country I want to see, I just want to make sure I have time for it all. Well, it's 10pm here so I think I'm going to watch some American tv on the internet and then hit the hay.
Night all.