Hellooo England!

So I'm in effin England! Holy Crap!! The motherland. The funky trendy people. The scarves. This is brilliant! It even smells cleaner than the States. I love it already. I pick up my bags and finally rid myself of the lovely girls from the plane (who spent 2/3 of it quoting Zoolander...which USED to be one of my favorite movies) "Cool story Hansel"

Anyway, so I walk out and feel like a freakin king cause the meeting area has a little walkway for the people getting off the plane to meet up with. Kinda celeb-style. I meet up with 2 tall & lanky blokes by the name of Lucas Windsor & John 'Loggy' Robb! Had a hearty welcome and after many manly hugs and giggles and "i can't *#)@$& believe you're actually here!", we make our way back toward luke's place. John has a craving for curry. curry it is. never really had curry so i'm game!

Luke lives in east london so we got on and off a bunch of subwa....errr...i mean "tubes" and after about 30ish min, we make it to luke's place, get a huge welcome from J. Duncan (Mams), find out than Lynn-Lynn is being a tool and is not going to be there while i'm here...so i get her room. John, Luke, & I go to a place called Tandori Nights for curry. Luke and I are getting the food, John is on drink duty. He comes back with a bunch of beers, wine, and a bottle o' gin. 

Back at luke's place we hang out and play some much needed catch-up and enjoy some Nan bread (a flat-bread of sorts) and curry which was absolutely fantastic! had some gin & tonic (to be honest, never had it before. newfound love), story time, and all that good stuff. 

Passed out late into the night in Lynn's old man crusted bed (Love you Lynn!!!)

The Plane

So after going through a long flight sitting next between 3 sophomore girls who go to NYU and were sitting diagonally from each other so i'm smack dab in the middle of the 3 and after asking if they'd like to switch with me so they can be closer they say no thanks and chatter and giggle like...i dont know. a giggler. Watched Iron Man, Get Smart (mel, you were right, not worth paying for but got a chuckle here and there), 2 hour nap, a meal that consisted of some form of beef, mashed potatoes, and veggies (which oddly enough, all 3 things tasted the exact same), apple juice, and a fair bit of wine. After all was said and done, I had 4 hours to go. Vunderbar!

The Flight

So i'm in the airport. I ended up not going to bed and just took an hour nap on Mike's bed (thanks mike!) then got up and sang some Rent (don't hate, appreciate). Got all my packing done thanks to my trusty sidekick McBride. Probably would still be packing if it weren't for him. 

So i'm in the airport and had to leave my house to get to my sister's bf's place in freehold. Had to leave at 4:30 a.m. to get there by 5, to have her drive me to the airport by 6 (flight is at 8:05). Fun! (NOT!) anyway, i got all sorts of little tips from my sister's bf who is from the UK and did some reading so I'm not a complete fish out of water while in england.

I just converted some US cash to pounds. All in all, not bad. $1.44 per pound...better than i expected. So now i've got some funky currency and then realize that i'm hungry and have to pay in USD. fantastic. so i get me a coffee and a bacon, egg, & cheese sangwich but i have to charge it. brilliant me. anyay, i best be off to the boarding area. later!

Operation Silly Yank

Here goes. So lets start off from the beginning (normally a good place to start). I am officially done with school. Like dunzo for good-zo. So methinks it would be a good time to go travel a little bit. I have traveled a fair bit but mainly to the Caribbean, Canada, and Israel. So this is the first time i've never really traveled by myself. Makes it more exciting. And what better way to document the story than by making a blog!

For the past few years I've made idle promises to visit place A and B for ages but never actually followed through...without much of a real reason other than I couldn't be bothered to actually make the plans. Now that I've got my edjamacation, I've got no excuse. I was talking to one of my friends from this past summer at summer camp, Danielle, and she was like "You should TOTALLY come to our new years party in Cardiff" (that's in whales for those who don't know...i didn't). So of course this gets me thinking...well...what if...

So i made the plans (major props to Lucas Windsor & Mams for taking up the reigns), talked to the right people, booked the ticket, grabbed me passport, and now I'm off to the motherland. Gonna meet Luke & a surprise person at the airport. My guess is its Loggy Rob (John Robb) which would be WICKED!

Stay tuned. More to come!