the rest of the photos.

okay here are the rest of the photos in chronological order...

our second day in paris

chicago the musical and fun with sushi

the tate modern and drinking on friday

roadtrip to bath

camden markets

wow. tons of photos...

today i was so overzealous to get to work i backed my car right into the neighbors yard. normally that wouldn't be a problem, but 2.5 feet of snow made it a problem.. so much so that i had to take my dads car to work. what a way to start of the day! welcome back to reality.

cath and mike made the invitations while i was away. they look pretty good. :)

i watched survivor and amazing race tonight. wtf. the game i set up i am not kicked out of.... so pissed! in case you are curious, both of my teams have been eliminated. here is who's left.

cathy david and mary
joe and bill
emily oswald and danny
charla and mirna
hope uchenna and joyce
mike rob and amber
dustin and kandice
reba kevin and drew
john vito and jill
ryan teri and ian
eric and danielle

photos.

i have 6 days of photos to upload and title, but our cable is out. i am so mad.. okay, its back. phew!

the flights home were long... and for some odd reason i couldn't only bring one carry on with me from london to philly. so i had to check my laptop. :( thankfully it was not stolen or damaged. i would be lost without it. i tried to take some stuff out of my suitcase and rearrange so that i could fit my laptop and its case in the suitcase, but physics would not allow for that. but lucky for me as i was bent over with my shit falling out of my suitcase trying to jam the computer in there the man in front of me farted loudly right in my face. what an a-hole... i was furious and disgusted.

my flight was delayed a little leaving philly. i got in around 845 last night, thankfully my luggage made it well before me on the plane that left 30 min before mine for syracuse, so i was able to grab my stuff and run to the curb just in time for cath to scoop me up off the sidewalk.

MK however was not so lucky, last i heard her flight was going to be delayed out of newark till 1030pm. i hope it got off, and she didn't have to sleep in the airport, not that i don't think she can do it, she proved that she is a borderline narcoleptic on this trip. :)

i think as i post and title the photos, i will let them tell the stories of the trip, i had some great times and some not so great times.

as MK and i were preparing to leave KTs flat we decided to call a cab for the morning because of the sheer size and number of our luggage. i am pretty confident that her roommate S thinks we are the laziest people alive...

here are the pics from our first day in paris.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=dultmwy.4owwkbsu&x=1&y=-a7or2m

back in london.

so MK and i made it safely back to london. we met KT and dropped off our bags, had a quick cherry beer (coke for my teetotaler friend MK) and ran off to catch chicago at the cambridge theater in covent garden. chicago was great!! although i am a little suspect of some of the preformers. one was definitely a transvestite, but i wondered about one more.. the act was very sexually charged. the preformers wore nothing but bikinis, and the men were nor wearing underware under their tights.

MK and i have noticed that the men here are gorgeous. way hotter than american men. and that's without their beautiful accents.

tonight we meet up with KT and her work crew for drinks, prob more coke for MK. then tomorrow i believe we are going to take a bus tour thing to stone henge, bath and one more place, sunday i hope to hit an open air market. we did not hire a car in enough time, so when we got home last night and looked on line for one, they were either too expensive, or not available. :( poor planning..

i'm glad we did not go to italy at this point. after just a few days being in a country where they don's speak english i dont' think i could have jumped right into another one.

mk and i gave our metro passes to a couple of british people we saw waiting in line to buy a metro pass. we weren't going to need ours and with everyone being so nice to us in france, we wanted to do something nice. :)

we saw the tate modern today. i am sick to death of crowds of people. i can't imagine visiting the places we've ben inthe summer in the height of tourist season. the weather here has been incredible too. we're so lucky!

pics from paris

here are a few hand selected pics from our time in paris.. i will post the entire album when i get home.


missy is thrilled to see the louvre. i am thrilled to see her in that red coat again..


here i am after making it alive to the top of the arc de triomphe.


here is an artsy shot of the eiffel tower.


here missy is reflecting on her sins in the chapel of notre dame.


some of the candles people were buying and lighting for prayers.


this is the view from our hotel in paris. so cute!


last night we had a quick bite of sushi at this place where the food comes by you on a conveyer and you pick what you want. it was very different and kewl.


last night we watched chicago. very awesome.

more pictures

okay, i've nearly killed my battery, but here are our pictures for day two in london.. i am afraid any more albums liek this are going to have to wait till i get back home. :(

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=dultmwy.9ep4wvgu&x=1&y=-gig3o0

some differences

there are many cool things that i am seeing here. people are so friendly and the food is delicious. we are loving the relaxed nature of everyone here, its something you can feel as soon as you step off the train.

one huge difference between both london and paris and the US is that you can't go anywhere without walking up and down 15 flights of stairs, and i am not exagerating.. god bless the person that invented the escalator, they must have been american. i am in a constant state of sore. i really have no movement at all in my normal day. this is shocking my body, yesterday i felt as though my legs were breaking from the inside out. today is not that bad, but i still shuffle along the sidewalks like a cripple, but i did feel better after i washed down my IBs with a pot **50ml** of red wine with lunch. luckily i am able to shuffle along here cause parisians are in no hurry to get anywhere..

we've really had only one rude experience so far. we tried to eat at a little cafe off the beaten path and the woman wanted us to squeeze into a bench area, and the table next to us was no more than 3 inches away. MK asked them to excuse her but they ignored her.. we decided to leave, plus we could barely see each other through the smoke anyway.

mk has something to say..

she is in heaven with all the chocolate, wine and cheese **even though she refuses to drink here, i feel like i am in ireland again, amendendment, she had a glass of wine, once***

paris...

****the keyboard is very different.. so in the interest of time, bear with me, i am going to pretend its not.*****

we have been having quit the qdventure here in pqris:

first thing ze hqd to pqy one euro to use the bqthroon qt the trqin stqtion, becquse somehow my underware was falling off, and a man walked in on missy.

we are able to navigqte the metro just fine, but we could not find out hotel. and i am afrqid to tqlk to people in the limited french i know. thank god MK is not afrqid.

our hotel room is like no other ive been in. i took plenty of pictures, theyll speqk for themselves.

i dont know what everyone is tqlking about when they say that french people speak english, but refuse to speak it to them. the cab driver that took us to the arc de triomphe only spoke english to us. i think he likes to prqctice.

speaking of the arc... i asked him to drive around the rotary there and drop us off. it was insane traffic. he almost drove right into a bus. then he dropped us off and told us thqat you basically play chicken to get across. so we did, MK with a little coaxing. it was only 7-8 lanes of traffic with no real order... i swear i read that there is an elevator to the top... ive never been more wrong, there are 284 steps up, and 284 steps down.

i am kind of loving the openness and relaxed vibe i am getting here. the national monuments are all so integrated and approachable here, and the streets are open, but the best part of this city is the flatness.

its also very sexy here, there are naked people statues everywhere, ive seen many provactive paintings/stores, etc.

today were going to the orsay, the eifel tower and notre dame.

ill try to post some pics of these adventures when i get back to london.

au revoir

day 2.

today was a long day! we accomplished many things though. we got a sim card for the phone, went on the brown bus tour of london, shopped a little, walked to the london eye and took a ride, it was the highlight of MKs day, she loved the big ferris wheel, i thought it was not worth the $30, it was very foggy. the bus tour was very informational as they usually are, our guide was pretty humorous...

we ate at "the mozzerella bar" in selfridges. it reminded me a little of the food area of ikea. we lazily walked back to where KT works and met her before we headed over to Ping Pong for my bday dinner. yummmmm..

we decided we are going to spend friday in london again and make it to the tate modern. we are going to try to see play on thursday. saturday we are going to rent a car and drive south of london to the coast. but KT does not want to be in a car all day, so she is going to plan where we go. i'm looking forward to driving..

tomorow is paris. :)

i have pics, but limited battery, so i'll need to post them later.

this morning.

i just named my pics, and posted the blog i had written. in the midst of all that, my 1st battery went dead, so i grabbed my power source, i only have half of it..

so i dont' know how much longer the pics will come.. i am so pissed. i am on my laptop, but this battery will only last so long..

we've got a hectic scheduel today and i have a headache and my heel is killing me... wish me luck. i have to wake missy. she's dead to the world.

up until last night.

the first flight i was on was fine, i sat next to a chatty girl that was on her way to meet up with her boyfriend in florida. she must have mentioned that 19 times. :)

the 2nd and 7+ hour flight i am on now. it's 820pm. i had a whole row to myself, but a family of three has decide that my row was better. :( they are serving dinner now. i missed what the choices were because the family was moving to my row when they went over the choices. we have a choice of 8 movies in our seatbacks. when my laptop batteries die, i will watch one of their movies. i hop what i choose doesn't offend the 7 year old that is squirming next to me. :)

its now 1130pm EST. i just watched the guardian... kevin costner, ashton kutcher, i liked it. i think kevin costner is good. these noise cancelling headphones are so amazing, and they rest OVER your ears, so they don't hurt. i am watching the illusionist now, i can't believe i have almost 4 hours left. i don't know if i'll be able to sleep on this flight, i better try though, and then score some redbull as soon as i get to gatwick.

okay, its 9pm, and we are done walking for the day, thank god. it will be a minor miracle if i can even move tomorrow. katie took us on a walking tour of england today i think. before we did that though, we had breakfast at a cafe where MK ordered "cheese toast". KT tried to warn her, but MK insisted, you can see the results in the slideshow..

we are all hooked up to do all sorts of sightseeing again tomorrow. it's going to be another rough day i can tell. we are going to try to see a show too. not sure which one though.

RS was so kind as to let us borrow her friends cell phone so we can get our own sim card and be able to keep in touch with KT while we are here.

here are some pics for you enjoyment, check out the rest in my photo album.


MK has never seen a camera before...


KG and BDs house. so cute! they are on the 3rd floor.


Picadilly Circus. the poor mans times square


KG and RS at the going away dinner.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=dultmwy.5c1pc0ym&x=1&y=-lwmvrn

todays the day!!

my suitcase is nothing short of 95 pounds. i am really looking forward to walking it up the mountain of a hill where KT lives with it in tow. if the road up to her house could be slushy and muddy, that would make it better. :)

so i have some insanely good news. i went through most of my boxes in the basement and i found my kitty hat!! woooo who!

i just had a conversation with MK, she sounds stressed. she also was unaware what a self check in kiosk was. i have a feeling this trip will be fun. MK doesn't seem to know what a lot of stuff is, for example she's never heard of the stonehenge. so i think it will be great fun seeing things with her. :) i'll be able to make up all sorts of stories and she'll have no idea! LOL.

we have been pounded on with snow lately, here are the pics...