Blogs from Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 467

It was like having christmas with the army... or an orphanage... or a mental institution! At ten O'clock in the morning - as ungodly an hour as there ever was - the fire alarm went off so that everyone would wake up and congregate in the main lounge. Everyone had begun to wonder why no mail had been coming in for the past couple of weeks, but as we arranged our many selves around the tree, it became quite clear with all of the battered-looking, air-mailed packages piled up around it that it'd been held hostage. Even the usually-surly night porter grinned like a little kid as he unwrapped his 'Secret Santa' gift of "The Jumbo Book of Dot-To-Dot Pictures"! Ash, Alaya and I nominated ourselves to be Santa's (a.k.a Crazy Polish Chef) little helpers in ... read more

Ok well, I am now safely back home in San Jose, but dont' worry, I will recap the last month. So when i last left you, i was about to head down to Brighton. Well, I think that Brighton, despite being the gay capital of England and therefore Europe, is my favorite town in England. Of course I love London, but Brighton was so great. Could it be due to the fact that I arrived on a Thursday and the very next night conveniantly, a local club was having a Morrissey tribute night? SO glorious. And at this club they even had play-doh for people to create their own version of Morrissey. I won't go into detail about some of the atrocities some people created. Brighton was just really beautiful and clean and well, just imagine ... read more

After waving goodbye to Italy we boarded our plane - destination Scotland - home of the knickerless kilt wearers, haggis and Billy Conolly. Also the place where we were to meet up with Paula, Aaron and Bridie to stay in our cottage to celebrate the Christmas week. After meeting up with the guys our first task was to find the cottage.. With Aaron driving and lauren as our map girl it seemed easy enough as it was only 45 minutes out of Edinburgh. Well supposedly 45 minutes away. In actuality it was more like 2 1/2 hours and with 5 people plus luggage packed, and I mean packed, into our tiny Micra hire car we were happy to see the sign for Kirkmill Cottage - our home for the next week. Second task was to organise ... read more

The time has come for our journey to be done. We had a blast making this blog for you guys and we hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for all the comments, emails and overall internet love. We can't wait to see you guys when we get home. Julia will be home on the December 21st. Krista will be home on January 10th. Krista will be in Argentina- you should still email her, but sadly, there will be no blog. WE LOVE YOU!!!... read more

They call lakes loches and mountains seats. Go figure.... read more