We are happy to announce that we have arrived in gay Paris and it is as gay as advertised! We ended up taking a late train from Paris to London and we got here about 7:30pm and I had absolutely no buying power. My credit card AND atm were blocked and we had just spent all our pounds are were frantically searching for Euros. I was therefore relying on Rohr to buy for me and we all know that's not a good thing. After a low-key night of finding our hostel, getting me some cash and eating a panini we hit the beds in preparation for a big next day. (awesome side note: one of our roomies was a non-Parisian frenchman and the other was a Hokie!)
So we got up around 8:00 on Wed. and went gang busters. Our Hokie friend suggested that we start at the the Eiffel Tower to get a good sense of the city, so we did. As the elevator rose more and more fear mounted in the eyes of my travelmate. By the time we arrived at the first platform he was crying like a small girl. So naturally I booked it to the very top and hung my arms out of the cage (don't worry mom, I'm alive!). We left the Tour Eiffel and headed to Montmarte (we never found Amelie, but not for a lack of trying). After surviving a full on assault by crazy english speaking Algerians we made the climb to Sacre Coure and took in the GORGEOUS cathedral. I'd seen it once before, but it took my breathe away this time. I forced Leo to go to the Moulin Rouge (major disappointment, they weren't playing old Nirvana songs or anything, but we did get a great pick of Leo mingling with the ravens beneath a sweet Metropolitan sign). We grabbed a great Sandwich Turc and ate it on the metro platform before heading to see Napolean's tomb, but by the time we got to the Hotel D'Invalides train stop the walk from the stop to the tomb was just too daunting, so we took a quick nap in the park. I fell into a deeper sleep than Leo, so naturally he grabbed his stuff and ran off, well this caught the attention of a kindly African man who kicked me to wake me and tell me that my stuff was being stolen. Well said African seemed less than kindly to me when I was kicked awake to hear is screaming in Francais and find that my lone companion was no where to be seen. Luckily, the man pointed to Leo, who was just coming out from behind a tree. We carried on to the tomb and bowed before the great Napoleon. We then walked along the Champs D'Elysee (and of course shopped at Gap and drank Coca-Cola) we then took to the top of that huge Arc and saw the city from yet another elevated view. Realizing how high we had been all day we decided why stop there and we booked it to Notre Dame, took in the interior, and climbed the 11,342 stairs to the top (yes, I counted...just kidding...but not really). This was the best view by far, I thought. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that we passed by the Hotel D'Ville on the way to Notre Dame and discovered that a huge film festival just started yesterday. Part of this festival included lots of Tim Burton, so we went to see Beetlejuice...in FRENCH! It was wild. (I'm running out of internet time so) We came home and went to sleep. More about today, tomorrow, peace and God Bless.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Leo and Bryce do BogMan 2005
Well, as announced here is my rendition of today. If you haven't already, scroll down and read Bryce's first because he typed it first and therefore it should come first but it doesn't the way this thing posts. I promised him I wouldn't read his until I posted(the little pansy). So if he made any bets or guesses as to what I would type...blast, there's not much I can do about that.
We slept in late as a result of our walking about 15+ miles yesterday, according to Bryce's shady pedometer. Who knew we would end up walking more today? Looks like our total will be WAY up there. We tubed it into town and failed to find Notting Hill(Hugh Grant would be ashamed). We did find our way to Hyde Park, their version of Central Park, and ended up walking the length of that(no easy task). We visited the British Museum and saw some awesomely ancient stuff (an archaeologists dream). He probably told you about the Rosetta Stone and Parthenon, so I'll mention the kick ass stone handaxes that early humans(australopithecus and homo erectus) used, which were by far the oldest objects in the museum. Some of them were 2 million years old!! The new ones were 200,000! We also saw the famous Bog Man, who was killed and dumped in a swamp, which beautifully preserved his remains for nearly 2000 years before he was found by a peat collector. The boring archaeologist in me will now cease talking and the cool pop culture guy will take over...
We saw Ross from Friends in a play! And it was really good and funny and I sat next to a really hot girl, who sat next to her mother unfortunately. The play was about this guy who was trying to reconcile with 4 of his exes that he wronged when they broke up. Kind of a High Fidelity vibe, which rocked for me. Bryce said he identified with the guy, who was basically a jackass. I also identified that the character was a jackass like Bryce.
Sidenote-The new Coldplay album has been my London soundtrack...so fitting. It was eerily poignant to listen to it on the tube looking out over the London suburbs and while I was people-watching at Trafalgar Square. So check out X&Y!
The whole point of us double posting came from the fact that we split up for the first time today because Bryce wanted to go see some boring WWII rooms whereas I wanted to see the reconstruction of the Globe theater that Shakepeare's plays were performed in. We'll take a poll now-which was the better and more sophisticated choice? Post with your thoughts. The Globe was really cool and was built to the exact specifications of the theater from the early 1600's. It looked just like it did in Shakespeare in Love, which was a real treat for me;)
A highlight of the day was on the tube ride back to Mike and Kate's who by the way, are totally awesome! I don't know if that came through in the last post, but they are so nice for taking us in and showing us around. We haven't thanked them appropriately but we will, even if Kate hates American wankers like Bryce and me by association. We love her...and Morgan ;) ...anyway back to the highlight. This Scottish woman, clearly tipsy, stumbles past us and tries to go through the door to the next car and can't get through. At this time, I'm making a bad joke about sticking my head through that door and saying Heeere's Johnny, in a weird threateningly Shining way. She turns around and says 'Another American? Blimey!' and then basically tells us off. So we try to get on her good side by naming all the things we know and like about Scotland. The extent of my list was Andy Murray(the tennis player we just saw), Trainspotting, and the supposed location of Hogwarts. She retched at all of these, especially the Potter reference(which broke my heart), and it was at this point that I pretended to be Canadian. We told her all about our trip and she seemed to warm up to us after that, telling us not to talk to Parisians because they're scoundrels and that she'd rather poke her eyes out than go to Orlando. I think we charmed our way into her heart with my alarmingly decent French accent(in her opinion) and Bryce's not talking too much, because at her stop she gave us both kisses goodbye and wished us the best of luck. Not bad when our conversation started with her calling us a name I still can't identify. It's these priceless interactions that I can't wait for more of! They are what will make this trip amazing.
On an end note...LONDON IS AWESOME! I can't pick which day has been my favorite because they have all been so good, and in quite different ways. The city is so international and yet so British. I'm definitely coming back!
Leo
p.s. thanks to everyone for the warm birthday wishes. It was definitely the most laid back and low key birthday ever for me. I don't think Mike and Kate even knew about it and I spent the whole day with them(Haha). And Mom, don't worry about the phone call. I'm not dead. Love ya!
We slept in late as a result of our walking about 15+ miles yesterday, according to Bryce's shady pedometer. Who knew we would end up walking more today? Looks like our total will be WAY up there. We tubed it into town and failed to find Notting Hill(Hugh Grant would be ashamed). We did find our way to Hyde Park, their version of Central Park, and ended up walking the length of that(no easy task). We visited the British Museum and saw some awesomely ancient stuff (an archaeologists dream). He probably told you about the Rosetta Stone and Parthenon, so I'll mention the kick ass stone handaxes that early humans(australopithecus and homo erectus) used, which were by far the oldest objects in the museum. Some of them were 2 million years old!! The new ones were 200,000! We also saw the famous Bog Man, who was killed and dumped in a swamp, which beautifully preserved his remains for nearly 2000 years before he was found by a peat collector. The boring archaeologist in me will now cease talking and the cool pop culture guy will take over...
We saw Ross from Friends in a play! And it was really good and funny and I sat next to a really hot girl, who sat next to her mother unfortunately. The play was about this guy who was trying to reconcile with 4 of his exes that he wronged when they broke up. Kind of a High Fidelity vibe, which rocked for me. Bryce said he identified with the guy, who was basically a jackass. I also identified that the character was a jackass like Bryce.
Sidenote-The new Coldplay album has been my London soundtrack...so fitting. It was eerily poignant to listen to it on the tube looking out over the London suburbs and while I was people-watching at Trafalgar Square. So check out X&Y!
The whole point of us double posting came from the fact that we split up for the first time today because Bryce wanted to go see some boring WWII rooms whereas I wanted to see the reconstruction of the Globe theater that Shakepeare's plays were performed in. We'll take a poll now-which was the better and more sophisticated choice? Post with your thoughts. The Globe was really cool and was built to the exact specifications of the theater from the early 1600's. It looked just like it did in Shakespeare in Love, which was a real treat for me;)
A highlight of the day was on the tube ride back to Mike and Kate's who by the way, are totally awesome! I don't know if that came through in the last post, but they are so nice for taking us in and showing us around. We haven't thanked them appropriately but we will, even if Kate hates American wankers like Bryce and me by association. We love her...and Morgan ;) ...anyway back to the highlight. This Scottish woman, clearly tipsy, stumbles past us and tries to go through the door to the next car and can't get through. At this time, I'm making a bad joke about sticking my head through that door and saying Heeere's Johnny, in a weird threateningly Shining way. She turns around and says 'Another American? Blimey!' and then basically tells us off. So we try to get on her good side by naming all the things we know and like about Scotland. The extent of my list was Andy Murray(the tennis player we just saw), Trainspotting, and the supposed location of Hogwarts. She retched at all of these, especially the Potter reference(which broke my heart), and it was at this point that I pretended to be Canadian. We told her all about our trip and she seemed to warm up to us after that, telling us not to talk to Parisians because they're scoundrels and that she'd rather poke her eyes out than go to Orlando. I think we charmed our way into her heart with my alarmingly decent French accent(in her opinion) and Bryce's not talking too much, because at her stop she gave us both kisses goodbye and wished us the best of luck. Not bad when our conversation started with her calling us a name I still can't identify. It's these priceless interactions that I can't wait for more of! They are what will make this trip amazing.
On an end note...LONDON IS AWESOME! I can't pick which day has been my favorite because they have all been so good, and in quite different ways. The city is so international and yet so British. I'm definitely coming back!
Leo
p.s. thanks to everyone for the warm birthday wishes. It was definitely the most laid back and low key birthday ever for me. I don't think Mike and Kate even knew about it and I spent the whole day with them(Haha). And Mom, don't worry about the phone call. I'm not dead. Love ya!
Monday, June 27, 2005
Bryce and Leo Do Schwimmer 2005
My turn! Hello from my first Euroblog. I gotta make this quick so Leo can get on and tell you the dirty details, but I wanted to get my two cents in before he fills your head with his load of crap.
So we started the day a little later today and headed on an unsuccessful journey to Notting Hill. I mean, we made it to Notting Hill, but it was a disappointment (I think because we just didn't walk to the right place). We saw no market and no blue door and Allison Krause was not singing anywhere! So we took off through Kensington Garden on a LONG walk full of sights including the Princess Diana memorial, which is a strange circular waterfall that I don't really get, but the British people seemed to love it cause they were laying all over it. After walking the entire length of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park without scoring Live8 tickets we went to view the stolen antiquities at the British Museum. The Rosetta hit us like a stone when we walked in, so we checked it out and then a bunch of other old junk, including some really really old pieces of rock that Leo flipped out over but that I think would be more at home in my driveway than in a musuem. The highlight of this trip, besides cute little uniformed british 3rd graders and Leo's handling of the donation bin, was the "Bog Man" and very well preserved human body from the first half of the first century. You can still see his hair! And his skin is like thick leather. After the British Museum we parted ways and while Leo went to a fake version of the Globe Theatre, I went to see the Cabinet War Rooms where Churchill and his boys hung out while Britain was being bombed nightly. It was a high priority for me on this trip and it was really cool, many of the rooms had not been touched since V-J Day when they left the place. They even found one minister's rations of sugar hidden in a desk 40 years later when they went to set up this museum. After that I ran to the National Gallery and was able to run through it in the last 30 minutes that it was open. It was a beautiful museum, I definitely want to spend more time there next time. Leo and I were to meet in front of the Gallery at 6:30 and it closed at 6:00 so I spent the next half hour walking about and I ended up back at Covent Gardens which is an market with street preformers that reminded me of Fanuel Hall (sp?) in Boston. I caught the very end of a juggling act that was pretty funny then I tried to make my way back to meet Leo. So now I'm lost and alone in the middle of London and I luckily stumble through Leicester Sq. where I see lots of theatre ticket vendors. I realized then that I could probably talked Leo into seeing a show as long as it was the Lion King and it was cheap. They advertised tix for 24 pounds, so I started to think up my ad pitch as I walked to meet him. He proved to be an easier than expected sell and we walked back to get tix. Of course as fate would have it The Lion King is dark on Mondays, so I tried to get tix to Guys and Dolls (starring Ewan McGregor)--Sold Out! Dangit, well everything else was too expensive and uninteresting to my less-than-cultured friend. So we went about our way to find something to eat and to check out Piccadilly Circus. When we got to the Circus (which had no tent!) we saw down the street the theatre for the play "Some Girls" starring David Schwimmer. Leo suggested we check it out and aren't I glad he did. We went and ended up scoring really good seats on a student discount (17.50 pounts). After we bought our tickets we had about half and hour before show time so we scored some Fish and Chips around the corner and took our seats. The show was actually really good, made better by seeing our second network all star in real life since we've been here (now we just need someone from CBS and someone from Fox and we'll have all the networks covered). We then hopped on a random double decker bus and took a ride to who-knows-where, but who cares, cause we were upstairs on a bus! We then grabbed some delicious Irish creme Ben & Jerry's ice cream and hopped the Tube back here to Mike's place. We met a wonderful british woman on the train (and by wonderful, I mean horrible sarcastic and bightingly rude anti-american, who came to love us!) but I'm sure Leo will tell you all about her. Ok, sorry this was supposed to be short, but it is not, now its Leo's turn to give you his take, but don't believe everything his says. Goodnight.
(sorry for any typing/spelling/grammar/factual errors, I'm not proofreading)
So we started the day a little later today and headed on an unsuccessful journey to Notting Hill. I mean, we made it to Notting Hill, but it was a disappointment (I think because we just didn't walk to the right place). We saw no market and no blue door and Allison Krause was not singing anywhere! So we took off through Kensington Garden on a LONG walk full of sights including the Princess Diana memorial, which is a strange circular waterfall that I don't really get, but the British people seemed to love it cause they were laying all over it. After walking the entire length of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park without scoring Live8 tickets we went to view the stolen antiquities at the British Museum. The Rosetta hit us like a stone when we walked in, so we checked it out and then a bunch of other old junk, including some really really old pieces of rock that Leo flipped out over but that I think would be more at home in my driveway than in a musuem. The highlight of this trip, besides cute little uniformed british 3rd graders and Leo's handling of the donation bin, was the "Bog Man" and very well preserved human body from the first half of the first century. You can still see his hair! And his skin is like thick leather. After the British Museum we parted ways and while Leo went to a fake version of the Globe Theatre, I went to see the Cabinet War Rooms where Churchill and his boys hung out while Britain was being bombed nightly. It was a high priority for me on this trip and it was really cool, many of the rooms had not been touched since V-J Day when they left the place. They even found one minister's rations of sugar hidden in a desk 40 years later when they went to set up this museum. After that I ran to the National Gallery and was able to run through it in the last 30 minutes that it was open. It was a beautiful museum, I definitely want to spend more time there next time. Leo and I were to meet in front of the Gallery at 6:30 and it closed at 6:00 so I spent the next half hour walking about and I ended up back at Covent Gardens which is an market with street preformers that reminded me of Fanuel Hall (sp?) in Boston. I caught the very end of a juggling act that was pretty funny then I tried to make my way back to meet Leo. So now I'm lost and alone in the middle of London and I luckily stumble through Leicester Sq. where I see lots of theatre ticket vendors. I realized then that I could probably talked Leo into seeing a show as long as it was the Lion King and it was cheap. They advertised tix for 24 pounds, so I started to think up my ad pitch as I walked to meet him. He proved to be an easier than expected sell and we walked back to get tix. Of course as fate would have it The Lion King is dark on Mondays, so I tried to get tix to Guys and Dolls (starring Ewan McGregor)--Sold Out! Dangit, well everything else was too expensive and uninteresting to my less-than-cultured friend. So we went about our way to find something to eat and to check out Piccadilly Circus. When we got to the Circus (which had no tent!) we saw down the street the theatre for the play "Some Girls" starring David Schwimmer. Leo suggested we check it out and aren't I glad he did. We went and ended up scoring really good seats on a student discount (17.50 pounts). After we bought our tickets we had about half and hour before show time so we scored some Fish and Chips around the corner and took our seats. The show was actually really good, made better by seeing our second network all star in real life since we've been here (now we just need someone from CBS and someone from Fox and we'll have all the networks covered). We then hopped on a random double decker bus and took a ride to who-knows-where, but who cares, cause we were upstairs on a bus! We then grabbed some delicious Irish creme Ben & Jerry's ice cream and hopped the Tube back here to Mike's place. We met a wonderful british woman on the train (and by wonderful, I mean horrible sarcastic and bightingly rude anti-american, who came to love us!) but I'm sure Leo will tell you all about her. Ok, sorry this was supposed to be short, but it is not, now its Leo's turn to give you his take, but don't believe everything his says. Goodnight.
(sorry for any typing/spelling/grammar/factual errors, I'm not proofreading)
Just Like Heaven
WOW!
There is so much to talk about, and this is only our third day here. I'll give a quick run through so as not to bore you. Our flight was outstanding, though it looked like it would be awful. When we received our boarding passes we found that our seats weren't beside each other. They weren't even in the same row! Bryce smooth-talked the United lady and ended up scoring us two seats together with one by the window! And the kicker was that somehow we had a seat's worth of space in front of us, like they had taken a row out. So we had more leg room than we knew what to do with, cool personal tvs, and a window view! Totally awesome and a great start to the trip.
Unfortunately we couldn't sleep much and were pretty tired by the time we arrived in England at 9:30(4:30am EST). But we had to push through the day to get adjusted to the time. We visited the Temple Church and Westminster Abbey (both of which play pivitol roles at the end of the Davinci Code). It was fun trying to retrace Robert Langdon's fictional steps. It's amazing how jam packed of tombs Westminster Abbey is! Everywhere you step there is someone underneath you and someone in the wall beside you. Very impressive. We also walked past the houses of the Prime Minister and the Queen. And I use houses there only in the most general sense. Dinner was in Knightsbridge along with a visit to Harrod's department store, the biggest freakin store EVER. Celebrity Spot Alert-We saw Bree from Desperate Housewives in Harrods. I think she was buying some non suspicious tool to kill her husband with. We got back to the hostel around 8 and crashed because not only had we been up for about 36 hours and walked several miles, we had to get up at 5am to queue for WIMBLEDON!
A life goal achieved. Wimbledon was great! It was a cold day and we underdressed in shorts and short sleeves. We queued for about 4 hours and the line streched back about a mile. Bryce bought a hideous pullover cause he was too much of a wanker to handle the cold. He also bought me a Wimbledon headband so I guess I can't give him too much crap. I just stole his rain poncho and huddled up in it for warmth...and style! We saw the hot Serb Ana Ivanovich get trounced by Mary Pierce and the legend Martina Navratilova play doubles. But the highlight had to be watching a match on Henman Hill. This 18 year old Scot named Andy Murray captivated the hearts of all Britains and about ten thousand of us crammed onto this hill to watch this Centre Court match on a giant video screen. *Pic you can't wait to see update*-Me yelling at John McEnroe!
By the way, a belated Happy 50th to my awesome aunt Laurie. I hope you had a great day! And while I'm at it, happy current birthday to Kristen(what up BOA!), Ho, and Robyn's sister Shannon...oh and me.
Today we met up with Bryce's roommate from grad school Mike, and his wife Kate. They live in the suburbs of London and took us out to the countryside for a stroll through the hills. When I say stroll, I mean a several mile trudge interspersed with sneezing fits, nettle stings, me thinking I found ancient artifacts, wrong turns, backtracks, hedge sculptures, kissing gates, pheasant chases, gate jumping, and polo dodging. If you need help understanding any of these, consult your local library. We also visited a town called Henly on the Thames where they have an annual regatta which is occuring in less than a week. They also have an unusual amount of hot girls walking around with older dodgy men. We have a picture of one you won't want to miss(wipes sweat from brow and keyboard). Upon returning to Mike and Kate's, Mike(who makes chairs) gave us a lesson in woodworking. We chopped, shaved, and lathed what is becoming a baseball bat. Perhaps more work will be done tomorrow and said bat will be used to beat away badgers that are either fighting and/or having sex outside the window here at night. Further investigation should shed more light on the subject.
Sorry to make this so long. We'll try to do shorter posts more often. It helps that we can use Mike and Kate's computer for free for the next day and a half while we stay with them.
Cheerio and Goodnight,
Leo
There is so much to talk about, and this is only our third day here. I'll give a quick run through so as not to bore you. Our flight was outstanding, though it looked like it would be awful. When we received our boarding passes we found that our seats weren't beside each other. They weren't even in the same row! Bryce smooth-talked the United lady and ended up scoring us two seats together with one by the window! And the kicker was that somehow we had a seat's worth of space in front of us, like they had taken a row out. So we had more leg room than we knew what to do with, cool personal tvs, and a window view! Totally awesome and a great start to the trip.
Unfortunately we couldn't sleep much and were pretty tired by the time we arrived in England at 9:30(4:30am EST). But we had to push through the day to get adjusted to the time. We visited the Temple Church and Westminster Abbey (both of which play pivitol roles at the end of the Davinci Code). It was fun trying to retrace Robert Langdon's fictional steps. It's amazing how jam packed of tombs Westminster Abbey is! Everywhere you step there is someone underneath you and someone in the wall beside you. Very impressive. We also walked past the houses of the Prime Minister and the Queen. And I use houses there only in the most general sense. Dinner was in Knightsbridge along with a visit to Harrod's department store, the biggest freakin store EVER. Celebrity Spot Alert-We saw Bree from Desperate Housewives in Harrods. I think she was buying some non suspicious tool to kill her husband with. We got back to the hostel around 8 and crashed because not only had we been up for about 36 hours and walked several miles, we had to get up at 5am to queue for WIMBLEDON!
A life goal achieved. Wimbledon was great! It was a cold day and we underdressed in shorts and short sleeves. We queued for about 4 hours and the line streched back about a mile. Bryce bought a hideous pullover cause he was too much of a wanker to handle the cold. He also bought me a Wimbledon headband so I guess I can't give him too much crap. I just stole his rain poncho and huddled up in it for warmth...and style! We saw the hot Serb Ana Ivanovich get trounced by Mary Pierce and the legend Martina Navratilova play doubles. But the highlight had to be watching a match on Henman Hill. This 18 year old Scot named Andy Murray captivated the hearts of all Britains and about ten thousand of us crammed onto this hill to watch this Centre Court match on a giant video screen. *Pic you can't wait to see update*-Me yelling at John McEnroe!
By the way, a belated Happy 50th to my awesome aunt Laurie. I hope you had a great day! And while I'm at it, happy current birthday to Kristen(what up BOA!), Ho, and Robyn's sister Shannon...oh and me.
Today we met up with Bryce's roommate from grad school Mike, and his wife Kate. They live in the suburbs of London and took us out to the countryside for a stroll through the hills. When I say stroll, I mean a several mile trudge interspersed with sneezing fits, nettle stings, me thinking I found ancient artifacts, wrong turns, backtracks, hedge sculptures, kissing gates, pheasant chases, gate jumping, and polo dodging. If you need help understanding any of these, consult your local library. We also visited a town called Henly on the Thames where they have an annual regatta which is occuring in less than a week. They also have an unusual amount of hot girls walking around with older dodgy men. We have a picture of one you won't want to miss(wipes sweat from brow and keyboard). Upon returning to Mike and Kate's, Mike(who makes chairs) gave us a lesson in woodworking. We chopped, shaved, and lathed what is becoming a baseball bat. Perhaps more work will be done tomorrow and said bat will be used to beat away badgers that are either fighting and/or having sex outside the window here at night. Further investigation should shed more light on the subject.
Sorry to make this so long. We'll try to do shorter posts more often. It helps that we can use Mike and Kate's computer for free for the next day and a half while we stay with them.
Cheerio and Goodnight,
Leo
Friday, June 24, 2005
Greetings from Great Britain
Hello All,
Just a quick note to let you all know that we are alive and kicking (well not so much) in England. We are dead tired from staying up all night but we'll post again tomorrow. Later
Just a quick note to let you all know that we are alive and kicking (well not so much) in England. We are dead tired from staying up all night but we'll post again tomorrow. Later
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
One Day Left
So the adventure starts tomorrow. With last day preparations at hand, Leo is wrapping up his work at the office while Bryce tries to stuff way too much crap into a tiny backpack. I, for one, can hardly believe its really happening, but tomorrow we're hopping on a plane, Friday we'll be in London, and this time next week we'll be in the city of lights (no, not Aurora, Illinois, the other city of lights).
We recently got in touch with Bryce's old roommate who lives in London, so we'll be spending a couple nights with him and his wife in the suburbs seeing how real British people live. Hopefully, it will be just like Privet Dr. (I call the Cupboard under the Stairs!)
Tonight we are going out with some friends for big American hamburgers before we abandon our patriotic roots and sew Canadian flags on our packs so that we don't get killed by angry Europeans (just kidding, only Leo would do something like that). It should be a nice final hurrah before we turn Eurotrash for a while.
Well thats all for now, I know this blog has been boring so far, but stay tuned its about to get a lot more exciting. Talk to you all soon, next time from across the pond!
We recently got in touch with Bryce's old roommate who lives in London, so we'll be spending a couple nights with him and his wife in the suburbs seeing how real British people live. Hopefully, it will be just like Privet Dr. (I call the Cupboard under the Stairs!)
Tonight we are going out with some friends for big American hamburgers before we abandon our patriotic roots and sew Canadian flags on our packs so that we don't get killed by angry Europeans (just kidding, only Leo would do something like that). It should be a nice final hurrah before we turn Eurotrash for a while.
Well thats all for now, I know this blog has been boring so far, but stay tuned its about to get a lot more exciting. Talk to you all soon, next time from across the pond!
Friday, June 03, 2005
3 week countdown
So,
In three short weeks, we will be chillin, London Style. It's pretty crazy how close the trip is. Our official departure date is June 23rd. We will arrive in London on the morning of the 24th. Six weeks later we'll be coming back (August 6th) leaving from Amsterdam. Plans for London have changed slightly. We no longer have a place to stay with Jeannie Addison, since she is now returning to the states the same day we leave them. Good timing Jeannie. We're working on locating one of Bryce's roommates from grad school who lives there, but haven't had any luck yet. Hopefully we'll find out about that soon, or at least before all the hostels fill up. Despite the lack of beds, a Wimbledon excursion is in the works for one of our four British days and could be the highlight of the whole trip(at least for me).
More info as it comes over the wire.
Leo
In three short weeks, we will be chillin, London Style. It's pretty crazy how close the trip is. Our official departure date is June 23rd. We will arrive in London on the morning of the 24th. Six weeks later we'll be coming back (August 6th) leaving from Amsterdam. Plans for London have changed slightly. We no longer have a place to stay with Jeannie Addison, since she is now returning to the states the same day we leave them. Good timing Jeannie. We're working on locating one of Bryce's roommates from grad school who lives there, but haven't had any luck yet. Hopefully we'll find out about that soon, or at least before all the hostels fill up. Despite the lack of beds, a Wimbledon excursion is in the works for one of our four British days and could be the highlight of the whole trip(at least for me).
More info as it comes over the wire.
Leo
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