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Laissez les bon temps roulez
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
London is great!
Hey yall! I'm so sorry it's been so long. London is still rockin, we're alive despite the 'flash flooding' that's going on in the UK. It's really not that where we are; I've hardly been able to wear my new green rainboots. The River Thames is supposedly going to flood and shut down the tubes, which would be absolutely disasterous since we rely so heavily on them to get everywhere!
The weekend was great. We spent a long day at the Hampton Court Palace on Friday. This was Henry VIII's crib- where he lived with all six of his wives. He kept beheading them when they gave birth to daughters instead of sons. The property is beautiful. There are impeccably manicured gardens as far as the eye can see. There is a maze of 10-foot tall bushes that is annoying after having consumed even a half-pint of Carling.
In other news, I am going to wander the streets of Westminster this afternoon with Tommy and some others. We haven't been by Big Ben (which is actually the bell inside the clock), the Abbey, or Parliament yet. Becky Gableman just called me and gave me an earful for not having seen these joints yet. Rightfully so, but I have been doing other things! I went to the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge last week. Climbing to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral was a highlight fo sho. You can look at my photographs for all the other place I've been to when I figure out how to upload them. I just don't like to do the really touristy things that require fanny packs and floral print shirts.
Leanne, whose ancestry is Irish, and I are traveling to Dublin for the weekend. She wants to go skydiving. I'll be waiting for her on the ground.
I am in the midst of putting finishing touches on my travel plans after my ISA programme is complete. Definitely going to Amsterdam to see the Van Gogh museum and the Anne Frank House of course. Perhaps to Interlaken, Switzerland as well to go canyoning. We will see!!
The weekend was great. We spent a long day at the Hampton Court Palace on Friday. This was Henry VIII's crib- where he lived with all six of his wives. He kept beheading them when they gave birth to daughters instead of sons. The property is beautiful. There are impeccably manicured gardens as far as the eye can see. There is a maze of 10-foot tall bushes that is annoying after having consumed even a half-pint of Carling.
In other news, I am going to wander the streets of Westminster this afternoon with Tommy and some others. We haven't been by Big Ben (which is actually the bell inside the clock), the Abbey, or Parliament yet. Becky Gableman just called me and gave me an earful for not having seen these joints yet. Rightfully so, but I have been doing other things! I went to the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge last week. Climbing to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral was a highlight fo sho. You can look at my photographs for all the other place I've been to when I figure out how to upload them. I just don't like to do the really touristy things that require fanny packs and floral print shirts.
Leanne, whose ancestry is Irish, and I are traveling to Dublin for the weekend. She wants to go skydiving. I'll be waiting for her on the ground.
I am in the midst of putting finishing touches on my travel plans after my ISA programme is complete. Definitely going to Amsterdam to see the Van Gogh museum and the Anne Frank House of course. Perhaps to Interlaken, Switzerland as well to go canyoning. We will see!!
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