European Vacation

It is amazing at how quickly the time flies. It seems like it was just last week that I got back from Europe, and now it is over a month later. Where does all the time go?

So Europe

It was amazing the history, ambience, and the architecture. The weather I could have done without. Cool and rainy almost the entire time. It finally cleared the last week and a half of the trip. But to be able to see places and things that I had only read about or seen pictures of was amazing. The things I did that I never thought that I could or would be because I was scared. Climbing up to the Blarney Stone, and basically doing a backbend. Climbing the stairs to the Eiffel Tower. Actually trying to converse in French. Getting on the wrong train and going away from Amsterdam. Having some guy try and follow me to train station. Trying fresh Belgian chocolate. MMMM that was so good. Most of the chocolate stores in Brussels gave me samples as I walked in. To be able to go where I wanted when I wanted was nice, but by the end I was glad that I caught up with my parents and had someone to talk to who a. spoke English and b. who knew me.
Would I do it again? Defiantly, but I would explore outside of the cities. Dublin and Paris were kinda dirty, but the country side that I did see was beautiful. I think that I would want to spend more time in Ireland and England as well as visiting Scotland and Whales. And change how I packed and what I packed. By the end I was very tired of the clothes that I had packed and wore. The same outfits day after day get very tiring.
I am glad that I took the time to do it. I don't think that there is really anyway that I could have made it shorter and still saw all that I did. But I did still miss things because I did not manage my time adequately.
But to see all that I did see, go to this link, to see all of my pictures. Forwarned there are about 1300. http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=920896020/a=1197535020_1197535020/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

Vacation

I can't believe how fast time is going. It is only 22 days until I leave for europe for a month. I am excited, so excited in fact that my suitcase has basically been packed now for a week. Me the queen of procrastination, just about ready to go. I still don't know if I have everything, but I think I am basically ready to go. That is until I get over there and realize that I forgot something. I am going to be able to visit 9 different countries and see them from the air and from the train. And I am not the only one who got in on the packing.

Jason really got into the packing. We got it mostly zipped up, but could not get it standing up. So much for his dream as a stow away in my parent's luggage.

Dream
Here is a very strange dream that I had that I have to write down somewhere so it will get out of my head. I have one tiny hamster, but in my dream I had three hamsters in different cages and one of then then had smaller hamsters in there following him around. I went to go and get them out, and it morphed into a giant fishtank that needed cleaning. As I was cleaning the fishtank there was a pile of black fish eggs. The eggs some how ended up on the bottom of my feet (I don't remember how). They then burrowed into my feet, and were worms growing into my feet. I tried to get them out and they were just burrowing deeper. I ended up having to have a doctor cut open the bottom of my feet (without knocking me out) and pulling them out. He started pulling it out from the middle and got one end out and the thing was like a very long black spaghetti noodle. He started on the next, and then I was woken up by my alarm clock. Thank goodness, because the surgery was really starting to make my feet hurt.

Inadvertent Scolding

Well it has been a while, and my brother and sister-in-law showed me thier blog and it reminded me that I even had one, and that I might want to get it up to date. So here is a little bit until I get home and have some more time.