Who says you can't go home? It's a funny feeling, although I think the funny feeling comes from there being no feeling at all. It's weird. I spent four months away from home. Not just at University a few hours, a University across the ocean, thousands of miles away. For some reason, being back in the United States, in PA, in a room bymyself, with the most comfortable bed ever...isn't as exciting as I was expecting. I was excited about coming home. The charm had worn off London and about two weeks ago I realized i was ready to come home. But now that I'm here, it feels like I never left. Everything feels normal, like I just got back from a week vacation. There's taht eerie feeling about unpacking. Twenty-four hours ago I was in ... read more

For 5 pounds I got o go Ice Skating at the Somerset House. It was so pretty with the CHristmas decorations and music. The only complaint was the pouring rain! It was something I'm not used to at CHristmas time. It stopped pouring when we were on the ice though...how nice. I hadn't been ice skating since I was a little girl but I didn't do too bad, considering. I didn't fall! Me, Andy, and Rose got in the Christmas Spirit and were feeling the need to bake Christmas cookies. We ran to Tesco to get the gods and made cut out sugar cookies (Martha Stewart online recipe) They wer good! We didn't have cookie cuters or a rolling pin. We used the bread crumbs container to roll out the dough. A glass to cut out ... read more

I jolted awake and relized we were stopped. I woke up CJ and we got of or our hour of roam time in Viena. All I wanted was breakfast in Vienna. I had been talking about it for days now. It was so cold out and everything was closed. I really hate shis whole Sunday closed stuff. It's mesing with my holiday. I like how London is run...free on sunday, closed on Monday. It's agood setup. We ate breakfast at a cute place in the station because all the other restaurants out on the streets were closed. I got orange juice and the most amazing meal....sausage stuffed with chese wrapped in bacon...It was s amazing. After that we went to get some drinks from the gorcery store when I realized we needed to get the rain...now. ... read more

After the Italian ladies companion showed us the horse statue and the way to the city she ddeparrts and we are all smiles. We wasted what we didn't really realize was super precious time going to the info center, then the ticket booth with the semi-almost mean ladies and back to the info center twice. Going to the info center the third and last time was when we realized how precious time really was at this moment. We had 7 minutes to buy our tickets and find our train. Of course how there were two ladies infront of us ruining our lives. We got there and said "I need a ticket to Vienna that leaves like now, please." The woman looked at us and said "You CRAAZY" THe woman kicked the girl out of the seat ... read more

We waited for our freezing train which came ten minutes late. We had no idea what do do. All I know is when we got on and found an empty cabin. It was warm and I was more than happy with it. It was so warm, but it started feeling colder the longer we were there. I layered up in everything warm I had. We passed out...well CJ did. I of course, couldn't sleep, but it felt good to just lay down. An hour or so later the guy came to check our passports which of course was on the bottom of CJ's bag. Where else is something when you need it other than the most inconvenient places ever. CJ informed me that ther were Nazi army guys that came in with flashlights. I did not ... read more