although vacation as a whole was GREAT!
where can i start???
saturday i went up to paris for the night so i could more easily meet my parents at 6 am on sunday. turns out that meant i didn't sleep since i met up with pascal and dominica and their friends for a while. and then that became like two am. and had to be at the airport at 6am. which meant leaving where i was at 530. so yeah. no sleep. grab the parents - who were jet lagged at CDG, head back to tours, grab lunch, take naps, grab dinner, go to bed.
spend the n
ext day at blois and amboise and clos luce. clos luce was where leonardo da vinci lived the end of his life and died. it was a cool place though.next day we go to chenonceau - SO GORGEOUS. see the picture to the left. then we head up to paris for a four night stint checking out: notre dame, the left bank, the eiffel tour, taking a boat tour of the seine, the pantheon, the louvre, and all over wandering about paris. it was quite a blast, my mom was overwhelmed by how big everything was, but she seemed to enjoy herself immensely. it was interesting being here with my parents, it was a nice little vacation but made me miss home even more, i got to see my parents but not experience all of the lovely joys of the VT life.
but anyways. then i head off to the lovely land known as scotland. first thing's first - i go to the world's end for some food and a strongbow. then head back to my hostel, where i meet lily and dodo. they are from france and austria, and we go out for a pub crawl to experience edinburgh's bars. the next day i spent wandering about the city - princes street gardens, the meadows, checking out the programs at the university (oooo mature grown up decisions - barf) then meeting up with lily and dodo again at the elephant house to get coffees in the place that inspired j.k. rowli
ng to write a little number called harry potter. oooo also exciting. we head out for a ghost tour later that night (lily and i are scared in that picture) after making a silly grocery shopping trip, and then meet up with a friend we made on the pub crawl in the oz bar for a quick drink. the next day would be... monday. we get up early, i spend the day with them, and then at around 4 hear from a friend of mine from christmastime who lives in edinburgh, inviting me to crash with him and his roommate (another friend from christmas). crash at theirs for the next two nights, GO TO THE MOVIES!!!! IN ENGLISH!!!! saw jumper. not bad. not perfect. but alright. check out a posh bar in the not so posh area where they live. interesting experience. still have yet to cli
mb arthur's seat - i need a nice day and a good pair of shoes to do that. the boots i had on weren't fitting. so after two nights of edinburgher (edinburger??) hospitality i go to glasgow - which is a cool little city. well not too little. i liked what i saw of it that day - hit up two museums and the willow tea rooms..... see image to the right. quite a nice little place. and well known for their teas. check out the university, but their psych program doesn't quite fit what i had in mind - although they do have a vet school... interesting. who remembers when i wanted to be a vet and james herriot was my favorite author. sadly, my last day in scotland - the reason i need to go back to glasgow - i wound up with a killer fever and chills and aches and pains. i stayed in bed all day after venturing out to check out the building shaped like an armadillo and the cathedral, but instead i went to marks and spencer and bought soup and went home after i realized my joints were locking into place in the ridiculous winds. so i went home and slept, in the lounge, across from a very nice australian boy who was inside reading for the same reason. i ate soup and updated my photos on my computer and he drank tea and read his book and that was about it. so i flew back here, and here i am. listening to jason mraz. and i shall leave you with the beautiful lyrics from his song "after an afternoon"which by the by is one of the few songs that actually mentions a girl with rich brown eyes and long dark hair. oh yeah baby. we are a sexy bunch that inspire beautiful songs.face to palm
tear to tear
and mouth to tongue
heart to ground
say heart to ground
say any old thing.
oh yeah - photos from the trip with the parents are at:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2036425&l=1ba9c&id=10400438
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