a new goal?

i'm going to run for sbo next year.

am i going to fail? probably...but hey...it's worth a try. so that means this year..i gotta step up my game..be more enthusiastic..make more friends. and just..be happy :)

so..the end. that's my goal.. :) i cant wait.

pac man and cry baby eyes.

well. one. you can now play pac man on my page. i expect to see all of you addicted. because i am.

two. cry baby eyes. today..i went to school with the biggest..puffyest...redest cry baby eyes. i cried all night from 8 to 11. we dropped off merrit and i was just..crying crying crying i couldnt stop. it felt really good though..i'm not gunna lie. i miss her already. ah poop.

well. school was good..i guess. um math is dumb. my teacher is a freak! that's not a lie..she's crazy..but at least she teaches good :) uh the rest was dumb. but seminary was good :) i love seminary. the end. i'm bored of this.

school, school, school!

well..now that all the summer fun is over..it's back to school time! secretly i was really excited to start..but then as it grew closer and when we came home..i wasnt. i wanted to just start running in the opposite direction and never stop. but then monday august 25 rolled around..and i rolled outta bed and amazingly made it to school on time.

wanna know my schedule? well...nobody reads this anyways but i'll tell you.

1. financial lit.
-pretty sure i accidentally went back to freakin kindergarden class. she talks like we're babies. and she makes us play these baby games. and she's just a weirdy. but whatever..it's a party. oh and i made a new friend..she's really nice..her name is corrine.
2. ap us history
-the teacher is awesome. there are about a billion of people in the class that i am in love with. and...everyone thinks i am a freak! woop. it's gunna be a hard class...but it's my goal to pass the class..and the ap test :S
3. theatre.
-okay yeah..i am a little bit of a theatre geek. but...i love it with all my heart. i do have a hard time performing on stage alone..or with people i dont know very well..so it'll be hard at first but everyone seems really nice. :) i made a friend named jake. he's pretty awesome...except we dont talk..we just sit next to eachother because we dont know anyone else.
4. fashion strategies.
-i am a fashionista. that's all i have to say. it should be a super duper class. except i am the ONLY girl...i promise the only one that is not a minerette. so i kinda feel like...weird and dumb but..whatever i dont care what they think anyways. oh and i found sev! my best friend from 6th grade!
5. math 1010.
-ew ew ew. that's all i can say.
6. ap lit.
-gouge my eyes out now. one. i have to read. two. i dont know anyone in that class and really i feel dumb. okay i know like..two people. but i still feel dumb. two. i have to take two ap tests. three. i hate reading! but i love the teacher :)
7. umm..uhh. oh! weights!
-woop woop! party with coach gross. haha...i'm excited. i met some people...i dunno everyone in there is pretty awesome though i like it a lot.
8. seminary.
-well...i have brother bird for any of you that know him. he's..interesting. but i'm just going to have a good attitude and...get something out of it! i have a way fun class..even though they all think i am insane. but i am..a little bit.

but my goals for this year:
1. dont judge people too quickly.
2. dont like/dislike someone because of what i have heard about them.
3. be outgoing
4. let my light shine!
5. do my homework...haha
6. make friends
7. dont be embarrassed of my opinions

we're coming to america...

well...after 3 weeks of going going going...it's time to go home. and...although i'm really sad that i have to return to real life...and leave this beautiful country...i'm kinda ready to go home. it's just...time. so after my last blog...we went into this little baby town like 10 minutes away from our hidden castle home that i loved so much.

there...we drove around for about 7 hours trying to find a dumb parking spot...but thanks to the pony show and the circus...there were none. we found one on this GIANT hill...and our little baby car almost killed us. i wanted to cry a little bit because is was so scary....you have no idea. then...we decided no on that..and found some other one somewhere i cant remember. so we walked around for a while until we were hungry. the town was so weird..and it was miniature. i didnt like it that much to tell you the truth.

then we went to dinner at the guys bar or something..i got this pizza..ah it was so good you have no idea! then we walked to the bakery for some more treats :) and i got a delicious eclaire...i dont really know how to spell it but whatever. then we went back to the hotel and i took a bath...then watched british soap operas for about 17 hours..then we went to bed.

blah blah blah..we woke up...ate gross stuff...then went on a wonderful walk! it was the most beautiful day..perfect temprature...blue skies...and a slight breeze. but i havent been feeling good lately so i just was...sick and whatever. but it was still a wonderful walk! so we did that for about an hour...and then packed up...we were our ot there around noon....and we hit the road in our dumb tiny car. luckily today it was mostly big...wide...main roads :) so none of us got too sick. so we stopped for lunch..walked around there for a bit..then we came to our hotel at the airport. it's pretty nice...just doesnt compare to our castle room though...ah well.

so after getting here we crashed in our rooms..only to watch more olympics and even more british soap operas. then we ate some dinner at the hotel..and now we're just sitting here being dumb.

tomororow we are leaving...at like 10 thirty in the moring...and then we have like a 7 hour flight to new york..then a 5 hour lay over :S then we have...a 5 hour flight home..so we should be back at like 10 thirtyish in the night. what a day eh? :S gah. oh well..i'm going to watch more soap operas now...so..bye! :D i cant wait to see everyone!

living like a princess :)

august 18th.

so today we decided to do what's called.THE RING OF KERRY. reminds me of the ring of death..and lemme tell ya..it was. the roads were so winding, and my tum tum hated it..so much. but it was really fun! we started pretty early because we wanted to beat all the old people in their giant buses on the tiny tiny roads.

so our first stop was heritage village where guess what i saw!? THE WORLDS SMALLEST HORSE. it was so precious. i wanted to pack it in my pocket..or make it give me a ride...whichever works.

then we went to these really cool fort kinda things...and climbed on the walls there..took a tons of pictures and what not. it was really awesome! and super windy :) then not too far from there, there was this giant old castle with a billion cows just roaming around there..so we took our picture with the cows..and i was scared for my life. then we ate some chocolate sandwiches and apple juice, and got on the road...yet again.

oh then we stopped off at the beautiful beach...and got some irish rocks..and the irish ocean attacked me and my shoes :) so i was drenched...and freezing! it's so cold here...i'm not even kidding

then we went to this windy windy place up in the mountains. it overlooked the ocean and what not..and it was so so pretty..but lemme tell ya it was so windy i almost blew away. and my mom was wearing a poncho..dont ask me why..but it really almost took her away..i have never seen something so funny in my life! i about died. that that'snot a lie :) so we hung out there...laughed our guts out...then we drove and drove and drove some more and more on the twisty roads of death...then we went to dinner and mr. macs again..because it was pouring rain and we didnt wanna have to walk around trying to find somewhere to go..so we just went there..then we went to the internet cafe and just hung out there for a while.


august 19th

we left our grammy's house B&B to head to...THE CASTLE! :D but we wanted to make one stop first. so after driving for about an hour...and then we took the ferry across the river..and drove for about another hour we made it to the glorious cliffs of moher! but...it was raining...and it was so foggy you couldnt see a thing. so we ate some more chocolate sandwiches, with our chocolate cookies, and a chocolate muffin, and..all the chocolate you could ever imagine...and then we decided to go back up there to wait for the fog to lift.

well..we waited and waited and waited until we saw a blue spot in the sky. oh the glorious blue spot. so FINALLY it lifted..and oh let me tell you...it was SO worth the wait. it was absolutely gorgeous! you could see forever and ever and...ah..it was just so pretty...we couldnt capture it in a picture..and i most definately can't capture it with words..it's just something you have to see to know how absolutely wonderful it is.

so then after hanging out there..and me getting really sick..again we took another really long drive to find our castle. after probably 2 hours of driving...and a lotta tiny skinny scary roads...yet again...we got here. it is absolutely beautiful! but i feel a little out of place. for breakfast they serve like freakin lambs liver and i was like..who the heck in their right mind would eat that at all..and for breakfast nonetheless?! but oh well..we went to dinner just at the pub here..and they set us at this freakin coffee table..and a couch..and two REALLY uncomfortable chairs...but we were all half out of it from driving in the car for so long we just laughed..and laughed..and laughed...until we died. then we just hung out in our FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL ROOMS! my parents bedroom is like forever and a half away from ours though..so we dont see them really because it's a hike just to get from one room to the other. you have to go through these hidden doors...down a hall..down some stairs...down another hall..down some more stairs..and through another door and hall to get to our room. it's so pretty though! our window looks over the river...and me and abigain share this giant bed that you could fit about 17 people in. and we have a couch. and a tv. and some chairs. and they have robes! and about 5 giant mirrors. and 2 desks. and a sitting room outside the bathroom. and a huge bathroom. ah...it's just absolutely wonderful. oh and the towels! they are not like dumb hotel towels that you cant even wrap around your body. they are huge! i love this place! i could totally live here :)

anyways...today we're just going to hang around here since it is such a long drive to anything, and tomorrow we will be driving forever and a half..back to dublin to the airport hotel and we leave friday morning :(

we should be home around 10:30 pm friday night.

oh. embarrassing story i never told you. the day we went to that fort...like the 3rd day we were here i think...um we were driving around town and just caught in a jam so we were just sitting there and there were some kids sitting on a bench just talking..so i was just watching them..i dunno because they were in my looking lane or whatever...but all of a sudden one of the boys just looks at me and does his readable lips and says STOP LOOKING AT ME. but really..what do you do in this situation..give him thumbs up? i just kinda awkwardly turned my head...and me and merrit just busted up laughing because i did that exact thing to someone onetime at a stop light to some guy in the other car. i guess what goes around comes around.

august 15th-17th...oh wonderfully wet ireland!

Well today is Sunday. We don’t have internet access but I’m just writing it so I can remember then I’ll post it when I FINALLY have internet. I’m sorta dying without it! But anyways…I’ll start with..the day we left Dublin. WELL.

My most embarrassing story of today…I was super hyper…and I had “this little light of mine I’m gunna let it shine..this little light of mine..i’m gunna let it shine, blah blah blah” so…I just opened our window and sang it at the top of my lungs out the window..and I was totally just..belting it. Well our hotel was in a “L” shape…and we were right next to where it bends. Well…little did I know that there was a conference room on the other side of the L thingy…and of course they were having a conference and their windows just happen to be open, and there were about 15 people sitting there, I was so embarrassed..but oh well we left like 10 minutes later

then We drove and drove and drove all day forever and ever in our baby mini van with all three of us cramped in the back…pinching and fighting. We played the ipod game..which I would HIGHLY recommend. :D alls ya gotta do is put the headphones in…and turn it up all the way..and the other person picks the song..and you sing at the top of your lungs. It’s hilarious. So after driving for a while we stopped off at this gas station and they had like a subway kinda thing so we got sandwiches for lunch. Mine was absolutely disgusting..i’m not going to lie I wanted to throw it out the window. I think it’s because on their sandwiches they use sprinkle cheese…and I hate it! I hate hate hate it! I wanted to cry…but I didn’t :D

then we drove for a while and decided to go to the crystal factory :D it was so cool! We got to see how they like…freakin start out with it way hot and they shape it and stuff..then like how they cut it…then engraving..and what not..i dunno. It was really cool. I loved it…but secretly wanted to steal everything there. But don’t worry I didn’t :D

so then we decided to just go to our bed and breakfast. Oh let me tell ya that was an adventure and a freakin half. We drove all around town…everywhere. Up and down tiny roads..it was so scary…we almost died..like twice. And we were so terribly lost..it was hilarious though I’m not going to lie. Driving on the wrong side of the road is just…weird. And the roads are so so so small! And everyone just parks in the middle of the road…sometimes people just stop and flip their hazards on then just throw it in park…it’s weird.So after FINALLY finding our precious bed and breakfast we unloaded..sat around for a while..blah blah blah I cant really remember what we did..but we went out to dinner at a place called the white house, which was pretty good.

I finally found somewhere with chicken fingers…and let me tell you..they were divine. I have never been so happy in my life. But let me go back to our bed and breakfast :)It was so cute! It was like these peoples house…with like 6 or so rooms. A tv room, a sitting room, and a breakfast room. And me and Abigail and Merrit finally got to have our own beds! And I was so happy..i got the queen size bed, and I was just in heaven. Finally in like…3 weeks I didn’t have to sleep with someone…or in a tiny sliver bed!

So the next day we woke up…did our getting ready thing..ate some yummy breakfast…and headed out to BLARNEY CASTLE! But it was raining..pouring..the old man was surely snoring. But we had high hopes! So we went there…and hiked up the gazillion amount of stairs that we had to hike up. Oh my gosh..it was so scary..it was pouring outside so it was super slippery…and of course the freakin steps were narrow...and super twirly…and oh so very scary. I was crying. But finally we got up there…and it was so beautiful! Then we just hopped right in line to kiss the lovely blarney stone…which is supposed to give you the gift of eloquence…I think that’s how you spell it. It’s supposed to make you talk better. I wanted to kiss it like 17 times. But you know…if you think about it…it’s kinda grody, how many people have really kissed it…kinda grosses me out…but whatever.

Haha to kiss it..you have to lay down on the ground and bend over backwards while holding onto these handles and freakin do a backbend to kiss it. But it was exciting! Haha I loved it…I’m pretty sure I got the gift. I just talk and talk and talk and never stop anymore. My family love it!

Oh man oh man oh man…we went on this walk and what not..and Abigail..oh Abigail..she had her arm around me and we saw a bench…so we were walking across the grass and she pulls me over to the bench..but I go sliding down down down the hill..in the mud. Oooh I was so mad. Everyone was laughing at me and I wanted to beat them up so I stood up with my muddy left half of my body and stomped off…into the trees..i was going to run away..but then I remembered I was in Ireland…in some freaky castle that I had no idea where I was…and I was scared..so I stomped back off to the entrance and I wouldn’t talk to anyone. I wanted to kill someone…like 5 times.

But then we got in the car…and drove away…and I was still really mad. I still kinda am…it was my only pair of pants! And now..they’re dirty!So thennnn..we decided to go to the butter museum. Oh let me tell you…COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER BEEN TO! Haha..just kidding. It was horrible. We might as well have put some money in the toilet and flushed it away…it was a total waste of money. But whatever…now I can say I went to the butter museum. They just like threw random things out..it was just weird…I dunno..i hated it. I was wet and cold and ornery..and it was just really weird.

Then we went to this dumb bell tower..and it was dinging for like 3 hours! It was way funny…because they were playing like you are my sunshine and what not. I was really weirded out.. after that I was hungry..and still in a bad mood at my wet muddy jeans..so we went to some mall food place..it was way good! They had like sandwiches and wraps and soup..and whatever else I dunno. So we ate there..and I was happy after that.

Then we walked around there for a while.So then kinda over by our B&B there was this fort thing from like the 15th century, or something like that. I cant really remember. It was really interesting though they used it from then until 1922! Our tour guide was kinda annoying because..i couldn’t understand a word he was saying and he just talked and talked for 2 and a half hours. So by the end of the tour it was beautiful weather! And so we sat around on the grass and just sat. it was so lovely…overlooking the harbor and what not.

So then we went a walkin’ to find a dinner place and of course they picked icky yicky Indian foody. Luckily I was so tired I wasn’t even hungry..so I didn’t even have to eat. Then we went back and I read..and watched JAMES BOND! Then I went to bed in my queen sized bed! :D :D :D

Then today we did the get ready and eat thing, and packed up and left.So we didn’t have as long of a drive as we did the other time..but it was still really long! So we decided to go to a cave and go there and what not before we went to our next bed and breakfast. I was scared of it. It was wet and dark and scary. But I saw a lot of the..cool stuff there! Haha whatever..can you tell I’m tired and half out of it? Well I am.

So there we met the lady that owned the land it was on..she reminded me of grandma pearl so so much! Ah how I miss grandma pearl :( but she was way funny…she gave us a book and whatever of the place and I just loved her!

Then we were starving so we went to find our B&B and here it is! It reminds me of a granny’s house. The house is pink. The walls are pink. The curtains are pink. The pillows are pink. The comforters are pink. The pictures are pink. Everything is pink. And it’s the granny pink..you all know what I’m talking about. If not you’re crazy. Oh and don’t worry..there is a bunny towel holder in the bathroom. Haha but it’s cute…I love it.

But for lunch…guess what my mom pulls out? My least favorite thing..beef jerky…and my other least favorite thing..peanut butter crackers. That’s all. I was so mad and hungry…but we decided to go to ross castle. There they had this awesome rockin boat tour that we went on..and we saw this was cool like 4th century monastery, but we didn’t get to go in it or anything but I wish we could have! It was cool to see it though. Then we just saw the mountains and the trees and the birds and the fog and the rain drops and the clouds. And everything else that was there. Oh and a jail and a castle, of course. There were about a gazillion islands. I want to live on one all by myself after this vacation. 3 weeks with strictly your family is a little bit like…listening to somebody chomping their gum in your ear.

Anyways we left there, we were hungry from our horrible lunch experience, and so we went to dinner pretty kinda early. I really really wished we could find a freakin Mexican restaurant that’s not 50 miles away. But we went to some place..called..mr. macs or something. I’m not totally sure…but I got this really really yummy hamburger…and I was so so happy. To eat. And now we are just in our B&B just sitting here..my cute sister who I love more then anything is so cute and nice and she’s being really crazy. But she’s so cute. I just want to steal the cuteness off of her..cutie little tush. (Merrit made me say that) :DNow she’s making me go beat up my daddy. So…bye bye :)

ugh..

hey everyone! um..so last night i wrote like a 3 page blog..about all of what we've been doing..but i cant download it onto this dumb computer in the internet cafe..so..whatever..i'm just not going to tell you. too bad. read merrit's or my dads or something. maybe i'll post it later if we have internet in the castle tomorrow.

:) lovey you.

top o' the mornin' to ya!

:) well we made it in ireland...after the earliest morning EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MORNINGS!
5am?..i guess it's not that early but i'm so tired i keep getting cry baby eyes..haha. anyways. i'm going to tell you about the italian boy that was in love with me at the place we ate last night called...red tomato. it was in italian..but i forgot how to spell/say it.

so anyways, back to my story. our waiter just was an add spazo..and had to be doing something every second of every moment. it was kinda funny i'm not going to lie. anyways he kept freakin stairing at me and i was just like what the freak...i could have sworn i brushed my hair. then he winks. two winks in one day! it must be a magic shirt or something. anyways...i just smiled and got back to my 57 different kinda cheese pizza. then i had to use the toilet...so i am just making the ever so long trek to the toilets that are down in the depths of the basement of every building in that country...and while walking down the stairs..he was walking up..(which makes for some serious awkwardness i'm not going to lie) so i like stop so he can go by with his handfuls of plates but he does this spazy thing and looks at me and is like.."you can pass my beautiful"...what the freak...i ran...because..yes..i run from awkward things. not figuratively run..i really run. anyways so that was that story. we packed..and what not..

the end.

so today...we wake up...get ready...drink the last of our milk..and our car comes to pick us up so so early. he's quite possibly the scariest driver....um..ever! so we get there lickedy split..and go though all the crap that you have to in an airport...and then we have to sit there for a bazillion hours because he drove so blasted fast..and we just..did whatever i dunno i was half dead.

then we get on the plane..and i swear the wait for takeoff was longer then the flight! but i finished the book i was reading. The Nanny Diaries. i'm totally prepared now for when i am a nanny! haha..then we got here...and i thought i was going to puke. no joke i just felt so sick...because SOMEBODY on the airplane had really REALLY bad BO. dont worry..it wasnt me...or abigail. i'm pretty sure it was the man in front of me..but 2 hours of smelling bo is just..way too much for me to handle! then we got all our crap and went to find a cab...got pretty much the funniest one ever. mostly because i couldnt understand a word he said. oh! get this..there is a language..and it's called irish. i had no idea...i just thought they spoke english..nobody ever told me they spoke irish!

anyways..we got to our hotel..and i watched the olympics! boxing and badmitton. my two favorite things..after pre cut toilet paper..of course!...then we walked around like chickens with our heads cut off because we didnt even have a map or anything..so finally we found this bagel place to eat our lunch at. but it was gross. i hate cold chicken. then we walked and walked. and found tourist central (that means lots, and LOTS of pamphlets... :D) and we decided to go on a bus tour. well...we sat on that..until we had gone in the full circle..and we had all taken our naps on it. so we got off...walked around some more...did some stuff. i cant really remember. oh yeah! did you know..sometimes...you have to pay to use the bathroom? it weirds me right out..here and england was the first time i'd seen it...it's a good idea..maybe i'll set up a toilet on the corner and make people pay to use it.

then me and abigail and my dad went out walking trying to find a dumb place to buy me my four leaf clover (dont worry i got it :D) and after walking 17 miles...and finding this wicked awesome soccer player boys..oooh they were so cool. i took a video..and some pictures. if i could figure out how to post video i would..but i have no time! i only have ten more minutes to finish this!

okay so blah blah blah we were hungry...went and got merrit and my mom to go get some dinner..and walked. and walked. and walked. and walked. i'm not kidding we walked probably for a good hour and everything was like 12 euros for one person..so we were like..eh no. so we...walked some more..until we ended up and the mall food court. THE MALL FOOD COURT.

all i wanted was a hamburger. a simple hamburger..is that too much to ask? i guess so. drop me off a burger king and just give me a whopper with cheese! BUT NO. we go to the mall food cour at..the burger place. that was the name of it. so what do i do? get a burger. well...it was all of.one milimeter thick and was a microwaveable hamburger. :( this poor girl is hungry. it was disgusting. i wish you all could have tried a bite of it...i wanted to cry.

so here i sit. grumbly stomache...outside of the resturant bar..begging for food. haha just kidding..well..,kinda. but we leave the city tomorrow for some road trippin action. so that should be good fun.

i'm not sure if i'll have internet the rest of the trip..hopefully i will because...this is my journal and what not. anyways...comment me :)

i got a wink!

haha well today my dad stayed home and worked..so we went out and went to the british museum..and that was amazing! it was like..museum heaven. pick anything in history...and it'll be there. it was really neat...because i spent my whole year studying about this...then i got to see it all..so it was really cool. anyways so we went there..and i got my museum feet and they hurt so bad and i was cranky..so we left...and went to get some hot chocolate and chocolate cake :) i loved it.

then i got my little cry baby eyes because i was really upset that cheryl was moving today. :( i'ma miss her...a lot.

then we went to trafalger square for the last time and watched the olympics...and we were just sitting there..then i saw this kid stairing at me..and so i was stairing at him...and then i just looked down and glanced back up...then he winked.baha. anyways...now we're just going to go to dinner..and pack up for leaving bright and early tomorrow! :( i'm kinda sad..but kinda excited. oh well...

:) miss you all

i fart in your general direction :)

wellllllll...i'll start at...after buckingham's palace. so after wandering around there and doing..yet another audio guided tour we went to hyde park and went to this food place and ate this really gross pizza that i hated...and then went to the little lake thingy that they have there and my parents got a paddle boat..and me and merrit got a row boat...thinking it would be easy...but no. row boats are not easy. they are hard and i'm pretty sure within the 30 minutes that we had that stupid thing we got about 3 feet away from the dock. but it was great fun..i'm not going to lie.we sang row row row your boat in a round at the top of our lungs...i loved it.

so after all that you'd think we'd be tired right? well...we were. but dont worry we didnt stop. no siree. we kept a goin'. so we headed right on over to the glorious globe theatre (shakespeare...you know) anyways we got our little tour time..and we had like..i dunno an hour or something to just chill so we went to the food court. let me tell you if there is one thing that i'm going miss about europe it's the chocolate. anyways..i got a brownie. yes..i'm a fan. and we sat around and what not. then we went on our fabulous tour with the crazy shakespeare lady. she was weird..i'm not going to lie. i cant get over how disgusting some people's teeth are! anyways...on the tour they were practicing for some play so we got to watch some of that..which was super cool! then we....oh!

this...we were oh so tired...but i guess there was a food market nearby so my mom wanted to find it. so we walked..and walked..and walked.and we found some cathedral or something so we went in there for about 2 seconds...then we left..and went home.the end.

next day.

we went to windsor castle. wooee! it was so beautiful! i'd like to live there some day i'm not going to lie. the castle was GIANT! and it was..ah i cant even tell you how great it was. but it was so freezing cold. that's not a lie. i wanted to wrap up in about 47 blankets and run around. i liked pretending i was a princess...it got me all excited to go to ireland and stay in that castle! :D :D :D

anyways..after that we rode the train...yet again...to lester square and went to tkts just for one last show..SPAMALOT! bahahahahaha.

so we got the tickets...and went to dinner at this one place..i got a burger..and it wasn't too yucky. the bun was kinda soggy and it grossed me out..but they were good anyways. so then we walked around for a while and went to the show. 12th row :) i love plays i'm not going to lie. especially musicals. i wish my life was a musical. that's the truth. the play was so funny. i promise i didnt stop laughing the whole entire time. then we just came home..went to bed..and now i'm here! awake! in the morning! :) father christmas brought me a chocolate muffin...and i have never been so happy in my life...well actually i have but..it was so yummy..i wanted 9 more.

but today is our last day here in england..then we will be on our way to ireland tomorrow morning bright and early! i'm going to miss london..but i'm kinda ready to go to ireland and just rest a little more.

we are the champions my friend

so the manchester untied game was so so so much fun. we had wicked awesome seats 12th row..ah..so fun. and the crowd is crazy cool! i'm not even kidding. about every 12 seconds you would stand up to do a cheer..that you have no idea what the words are. and half the crowd is wearing blue..and the other half is wearing red. and..it's just amazing. and so that was way way awesome.

then yesterday we had a super full day. we went to buckingham palace or whatever. that was so pretty! one day i'm going to live there. we took a nap in the guest room..and then had tea with the queen. anyways i'll tell you about it later :)

we found the church!

i've never been so happy to go to church in my life i'm pretty sure. i have no idea why either...i just kinda felt at home :) lame? most likely. but oh well think what you'd like. anyways so we went there for sarcrament meeting then we found the v&v fashion museum and walked in there for a bit...and now we're home making lunch :) yay more tuna... :s

but! i'm going to tell you about how happy i am. because yesterday i did two things. i found my husband, AND we had our pizza ice cream movie night. and it was so fun. we watched a knights tale. and i absolutely love that movie. it had different scenes then the one from america..i was way freaked out! anyways we're eating way fast and going to the manchester united game so i gotta hurry and change out of my fashion scarf and into my crazy soccer fan outfit! woooohooo.

we found the church!

i love portobello road

:) well today we decided to stay home and rest our poor little feeties that want to fall off. well..we didnt really rest them..they just were sick of museums. anyways like i said last week...right on the street that we live on there is this giant market. and when i say giant i'm not joking one bit. you could probably find anything you could ever think of there. i'm not kidding. it ranges from cell phone covers to ketchup. i love it.

so we walked and walked up and down and everywhere. me and merrit and abigail ran away from the parents and just went by ourselves because we hate them. haha just kidding we really dont. but anyways..i ended up buying this FABULOUS scarf :) and an extremely wonderful jacket coat..thing. OH HOW I LOVE IT! haha

anyways then me and abigail were getting a bit cranky because we were starving so we were trying so hard to find the faloffle (spelling?) man. but we couldnt find him. so..we got this giant crep with bananas and nutella on it instead. and let me tell you..if there is one thing in the world you should try..it should be that. i wanted to leap down the street and sing. but of course i didnt..only because it was raining so hard. and there were way too many people to even stretch your leg farther then an inch and a half further then it should go.

so yes. it was raining. and pouring. and it was coming down down down and we were so cold and wet and we wanted to be home. so..we went home! then we did a little bit of this and that..oh! and the dear sweet housekeeper finally brought us some new towels. but she still couldnt fix our dang tv :(

BUT DONT WORRY! we're having a pizza ice cream movie night tonight. except minus the ice cream and plus brownies. because tesco's freezers broke :(

anyways. i'm super bored. everyone is asleep and i'm not one bit tired! i'll probably just eat everyone's brownies while they're sleeping and nobody will know :)

haha well if you are reading this...and have myspace...i put up just a few pictures so you can get a taste of this lovely country! :)

i hate dead people

wellll..yesterday we went to westminster..its SO pretty! i cant even explain to you how amazing it is..and i wish i could have taken pictures for you because...it was amazing! except it was filled with dead people. i didnt like that very much. but it was super cool nonetheless. :) then we sat outside for a little bit...and took a billions of pictures then merrit wanted to take us on a walking tour to trafalger square. i know that's not how you spell it..but it's freakin weird spelling and i cant do it..so you get my version.

when we got to trafalger square they had this GIANT screen and a billions of people...turns out it was the opening ceremonys for the olympics...so we watched the end of that and just sat there by the fountain...and everyone around me was smoking and i wanted to dieeee. gah. i swear everyone here..smokes. drinks. and all guys have earrings. i a little bit wanna kill someone. OH! and my favorite...the 70 year old ladies with bright pink hair, and clothes that make them wanna be 14 year olds.

anyways...after sitting there..and almost dying from second hand smoke we decided to go to china town and eat some china food. and after eating WAY too much chow mein...my mom and dad and abigail decided they were tired and wanted to go home so me and merrit went up to covent gardens (which is not a garden AT ALL, more of a...square type thing) and they had street performers...and booths with all sorts of things from clocks, to clothes, to photographs. and then they had all these way yummy food booths...and the giant chocolate chip cookie caught my eye..so of course we had to get it..and we ate it while watching the street performer swallow a balloon...with some girls camera in my face..then when she pulled back for a minute i switched my positin so she couldnt do it anymore...and she was so mad..baha. anywyas...i didnt like it when he swallowed a sword..so we left.

we walked. and walked. and walked. back to trafalger sqare..and since it was friday everyone was out at the pubs. or the clubs. or just everywhere drinking. but instead of sitting down inside..everyone stands around outside on the corners. it's kinda weird. but anyways...we made it back to trafalger square and there were still a whole bunch of people out there. so me and merrit watched the opening ceremonys re run...and then! haha..there was supposed to be this live performance..so we assumed it was a band or something...but no. it was these chinese people dancing around this inflatable egg..then this guy on stilts came out and was poking people in the crowd. it was hilarious. but really strange, and i wanted hot chocolate. so here begins our adventures of finding hot cocoa. well...long story short. we never found any. but we got invited to go to about a gazillion clubs in lester square.

blah blah blah we took the long journey of riding the tube back home...and i read while stretching my very sore legs..and went to bed :)

you know..i could freakin publish my blog...each one i swear is a freakin novel.

my feet are falling off

:) well...okay so i'll tell you about the time on the tube (subway) where i almost died. we were running running running to make it on and the doors were like closing and my mom gets on and abigail follows...and merrit and my dad barely made it and the doors are like..pretty much closed..and i really was like..oh crap..i have no idea where i am or how to get back..and i squeeze through this little tiny crack..and the doors are like crushing me and me and my dear sweet purse barely made it through the closing doors. it was so so scary. i almost started to cry i was so scared!

but dont worry..that wasn't the first time i have almost died on the tube. i swear..if i dont get lost on this trip it will be a miracle. that's not a lie.

haha anyways where i left off..wednesday we went to kew gardens...and pretty much took the most boring walking tour there and i wanted to cry because my feet hurt so bad. then we went in a shaded area and layed down and everyone slept..except for merrit...she read..the whole entire time. thennn we walked around some more. my mom got us lost and made us walk a billioin and a half miles and my feet hurt and i was hot and tired. but it was really pretty there :) then we came back..made some chicken pasta and went to bed.

then thursday my dad needed to stay back at the apartment for the day and work..so we left..and went to the theatre to get tickets to wicked :) so we got thoes..went to this really cool store called top shop. but because of the exchange rate..i have no desire to buy anything...i almost got this really cool scarf..but it was 30 dollars..so i voted no.

then we went back on the tube (you have no idea how sick of the tube i am getting. i hate it. with all my heart. all i want to do is sit in a car) and we road to..wherever we road i dunno. then we walked to the tate modern art museum...which was way cool. i love modern art..because..its the only kinda art i can do. just stack some bricks or soap and...BAM it's art! :) so we walked. and sat. and slept. and did all that good stuff there..and then we went outside and got really really tired. so we sat on a bench for like 45 min. and the freakin pidgeons attacked me. i am terrified of them. i'm scared their flappy wings will wack me in the face or something. :( i hate them

then we went back to our apartment for dinner..and to get ready to go see..WICKED! so me and my dad walked to tesco ( the food market) about 5 billion times...because we kept forgetting all this stuff...but finally we got back..and made some soup and all that jazz...and it was really yummy..blah blah blah whatever.

so then we went and saw wicked...and i am in love with it! i love musicals i'm not going to lie. i wish my life was a musical truthfully.

oh! and then..the dang people upstairs...ew..they woke up at about 3 this morning and did a 3 hour long tap dance across the floor..i wanted to bang on their door and cut their feet off...i was so mad. but now we are just getting ready to go to westminster abbey..or however you spell it. kinda cool because every king or queen from the past 1000 years has been crowned there...in the very same chair. i'm kinda excited. hopefully my feet wont fall off because let me tell ya..i'm about to cry my eyes out because they hurt so bad. anyways i'ma gunna go make myself yet another peanut butter and jelly sandwich (i've had one for lunch the past 8 days yummy....)

mind the gap

that's probably my favorite thing i have heard here. along with beware of pickpocketers. and...oh instead of the signs saying exit..they say way out. :)

so on monday...we went to the tower of london..which was REALLY cool. we got this tour around it...saw the crown jewels...umm oh yeah i met this kid from missouri..he was pretty cool..we got in the little dance where you are trying to walk past then i was like sorry! and then he got really excited that i was from america..so we just were talking..blah blah blah..never saw him again.

then..yesterday we went to the national art gallery..or whatever it's called i'm not totally sure..and..that was boring...well it was kinda cool..but it was kinda boring. i saw da vincci's painting..the sunflowers..or whatever..i dunno we've all done a recreation of it in like 3rd grade.but my favorite thing there was the love exhibit. you could write down something/someone you love..and put it on this giant wall. i had nobody to write though :( but..oh well...anyways after that we were all really tired so we went and ate and sat around then we went to this GIANT shopping center called..harrod's. it was so huge..that they had to have a map. but i didnt like it there..everyone was snooty and...ew. but oh well..

THEN! we went and saw the sound of music! i LOVED IT! the whole entire play i had this giant retarded smile on my face..but i couldnt stop! i wished the play would never end. hahaha but..umm :) it's time for dinner. i'll tell you about today..later :)

seriously..you have no idea how much i love kareoke...

okay i have really bad hair but just...dont look at it...anyways hahaha..i walked past a kareoke bar last night and i thought my family was right behind me but i guess they werent...and this random boy was walking kinda next to me when i yelled it..and he looked at me like who the heck were you..but i didnt think anything of it until i turned around and everyone was gone. i felt pretty embarrassed. so yesterday..we did a lot. i dont really have a lot of time to write stuff down right now...but whatever. i'll leave you with this awesome picture of me..with a fountain coming out of my head :)

"somebody else can lick my bowl if they want to"

hahaha diet camp isn't as bad as i thought! woohoo! well yet..we'll have to see after i eat all the rice crispys and 100 calorie bags of cheetos. but it shouldnt be bad...i can swipe the fruit from the portobellos market. but today we woke up to go to church..and while getting ready for the day..merrit burned her hair off...broke my straightener...and that was just a delight.

then we took the train to wherever..i dunno i've been lost since the second we got here...but anyways we couldnt get on the train or something and merrit wore the wrong shoes and got about 15 blisters so we hopped back on the train and came back to our barbie apartment and changed and decided we wanted to go on one of thoes double decker bus tours and so we got on the train....take two...and we walked around forever trying to find the dang bus place so finally we found that..plopped on that and road around on that until it started pouring rain then we got off..

ugh i cant really remember what we did first..umm oh yeah we got off at this park and ate some food and watched people rollerskate and we wished we were doing that with them...then we got back on the bus and saw speakers corner so we got off and listened to all the crazies there..which was really interesting but then it was raining like NO OTHER so we got back on and road for a while.

then we got off of the bus at st. pauls catherdral..which was really amazingly beautiful! i was so mad that we couldnt take pictures because it was sunday..but we might go back..but we sat through evening song or something which was weird because..they sing wacky. all i could hear was.."close your eyes..go to sleep...little baby mallory" so dont worry i did. the sermon was way weird..well i dunno i was fast asleep actually. but it was a good powernap! woo!

so then we had to go to the bathrooms..and no joke they were the best bathrooms i've ever been to. the toilet paper came out like pre cut...and i there were windows in the doors..youcouldnt really see through them..but it was way cool anyways...i was amazed...

then we got back on the bus because my dads friend that he used to work with..but then they moved to paris..and him and his wife and their son were here visiting or something and so we wanted to hook up with them to get dinner so we came back and fixed our ugly frizzy rain hair...that we all had :) just wait for the pictures hahaha. it's hilarious

so we grabbed our umbrellas and walked down portobellos road looking for my dads mystery friend and i walked right past them and they were all HELLO. (okay i kinda feel like i'm blabbing and telling weird stories that make no sense but i'm trying to multi task) anyways so we went to the organic cafe and had pizza there..which was so amazingly yummy..you have no idea. then we talked and talked and talked forever. then their son left to go meet up with his friend..and they were going to walk us home because the train station is really close to our house...so they ended up coming over and we are just sitting here talking to them..still...haha but they are hilarious. i guess they have this giant house in paris and they keep trying to convince us to go visit them while we are there..so i am thinking...it's 80 pounds round trip..so thats like 160 dollars..so me and merrit could totally go down there for like..2 days...just see the main things you know..i'd pay for half...for sure! :)

so..so far..this day has been so amazing! i just cant get over how awesome this is...i wish so much that i could share the joy i feel with all of you :) i would definately recommend coming here...for sure. it's weird because you know you are in a different country...but everyone speaks the same language as you so it's kinda freaky..i love it though! anyways...i guess i'll be done for today haha..

who said airplane food was bad?!...me

well...after 18 hours of long long long travel we finally made it here! on the plane they gave us this chicken and pasta and what not....i gobbled it right down..because i thought it was yummy. and it was..but now i dont feel so good...but that's okay :D i am so so happy to be here! you dont even know. we have a freakin barbie sized apartment and i love it. we have a preciously small backyard that the random man downstairs threw his banana peel back there...while i waved to him through the window. everything here feels like a dream come true! just across the street they have this portobellos (i dunno how to spell it but whatever) little street market. well...when we got here we started to wander..it is FOREVER huge. but it's awesome! they have these way cool tents set up...its like the farmers market time 12 because it is not half as hot..and there are amazingly good looking people walking around. that's not a lie. umm...what else. i feel like i have the WORST hangover ever..but it's just jet lag. i'm not looking forward to waking up at 4 am and not being able to close my eyeballs...but i am excited to go to bed that's for sure. um our suitcase full of food made it safe and sound :) and boy was i happy to have it...i wish you all were here with me..soaking all of it in with me...i love love love it here and i am never ever ever coming home. tomorrow we are planning on going to church..and then...going to kew gardens maybe...truthfully we have no idea what we're going to do. haha..we almost blew up the apartment trying to figure out the plugs..but dont worry it's all good :)
oh my. driving from the airport to here was a hoot...well at first. the driver was a freakin maniac! i truthfully thought i was going to die...but pretty much everyone here has way nice cars..and i secretly wanna steal every last one of them. but the driver was going about 5 million miles an hour and i felt way car sick...then the speed bumps about made me throw up that chicken and pasta.
um...pretty sure i feel like i am just blabbing on and on and i am making no sense. i'm sorry..i havent slept in about forever it feels like. but...thats okay :) dont miss me too much.

CHEERS!