So I feel as though I have a lot of catching up to do. For Toussant break we went to London, Edinburgh and southern Ireland. I loved all of them, however the weather was less than cooperative. But I guess that's what you get when you go to the UK.
London was a little chaotic. It was raining, 40 degrees and 30 mph winds. Not exactly condusive to sight seeing. And since we went on a weekend, the museums closed early on Saturday and weren't open Sunday, and we had to leave by 2 on Monday. So I'll definitely have to go back to London because there's so much really cool stuff I just didnt get to see at all. BUT I did get to see the Westminster Abbey, the Eye of London, Buckingham Palace, and we saw The Lion King. So it's not like we sat around and did nothing. We also went to Portobello Road in Notting Hill and saw the bookshop from the movie Notting Hill, and the open air market there. They had lots of cool antiques and shops. Lion King was good, except the kid who played Little Simba was god awful. I mean just horrible. But the rest of the cast was really good, and it was fun to refresh my memory of the show cause I'd forgotten how they did a lot of things. And all the actors had British accents haha, so that was cute. We took the underground a lot, and it wasn't as scary as everyone made it seem. maybe we were just used to undergrounds by that point. But this one time, the oxford circus station was closed and they kept saying "Oxford Circus station is closed due to person under the train". GROSS. They said it over and over and over again too, so of course way to many nasty images came to mind.
We took the train to Edinburgh (which we thought would be like 50 pounds.. turns out it was 100... major ouch). I LOVED Edinburgh. I think it was the first place I could actually see myself living. The people were so nice, and the area is just gorgeous. It rained a little bit here, but most of the day was sunny and beautiful. We stayed in this hostel that was an apartment, but it turned out to be really nice cause the guy told us exactly where to go. We went to a pub that had authentic scottish folk music. There were just 7 or so people sitting in the corner, drinking beers and playing fiddles and whatnot. We met up with my friend Tom at this bar the first night and it was open mic night. absolutely hilarious! this guy with crazy curly hair called himself "Love Juice".. but his real name was Peter. He was god awful, and he knew it, which made it even funnier.
Then we flew to Dublin. We did this 3 day bus tour of Southern Ireland which turned out to be the coolest thing! I got to kiss the Blarney stone (now I can flatter people with my words... supposedly haha. I don't think it actually worked). We made a wish in a real Irish wishing well (if it landed in the water yo got your wish, if it landed outside the water you got the opposite. yikes!) Mine landed in the water :) haha. We went through Cork, Kilarney, Gallway and eventually back to Dublin. Our tour guide was really funny, and the entire tour was Aussies. Most of them were around our age too, so it was nice to meet other kids traveling like us. When we got back to Dublin we went to the Guinness and Jameson factories. The Jameson was really cool and they taught you a lot about whiskey in general. I also fell in love with Bulmers Cider.
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