Routines & Glorious Things

Just booked tickets for Barcelona, Spain!! YAY :) April 24th - 26th. The tickets were free- whoopwhoop. Again, the taxes & fees brought it up to just over £100. But still - not too shabby.

Staying in town again this weekend. Kevin will need to go in to work on Saturday...something about flipping a submarine?! But perhaps we'll do another hike Saturday afternoon or Sunday. I can't believe it's almost March. And even tho we've been here almost 2 months it still hasn't really sunk in that this is home. Mainly because if this were home we'd have our things around, pictures, furniture, Dylan - all things that make a place seem more like home. I have framed a few pictures and I made a collage of pictures thats hanging in our entrance way so we can see all your beautiful faces as we walk in. But - It has been nice to finally get into a little bit of a routine which we've always wanted to do but before now we were both working (Kevin working a TON), we had Dylan to take care of and we had our wedding to plan so both our schedules were a bit hectic. Now we both get up at 6am - have coffee together & watch the news for 45 mins before he leaves for work :) After he leaves for work I proceed to watch my new 3 favorite shows - Out of the Blue, Neighbors and Home & Away. Neighbors is a little retarded but it's smack in the middle of the other two good shows (nice planning on their part). At some point I make it to the gym (on a good day), and most every day I go to the store to get dinner for that night. I usually fit in a walk around town and an hour or so of internet searching for cheap travels. Then my love comes home - my favorite part of the day. We eat, watch some tv, maybe play a game or go for a walk & relax for the rest of the night.

But tonight folks - we go for Curry night at the railway :)

Ewe makin me crazy

After an uneventful Saturday we took off with some gusto on Sunday to the Lakes District - Ambleside to be exact. It hit 10 degrees Celsius so it was warm enough for a no coat hike. We grabbed some fish & chips at a pub and then hit the hills. There were some pretty incredible views along the way (you can see them in our photo album the link on the right). Other than that it was a fairly easy 2hr hike passing sheep, waterfalls and crossing bridges. A nice way to end the weekend :)

Hangover Saturday

bed made out of dunas on the floor, silky, 2 liter of soda, random food & movies = hangover cure all. Seeya Sunday.

Two drivers in the fam!

Thats right! While Kevin has perfected the left sided drive I went for my first spin in this beaut just yesterday. I picked Kevin up from work so we could go pick up our new computer (the things I'll do for technology) it wasn't so bad. I had visualized the drive prior to getting in the car and felt confident in being able to conquer the roundabouts. Today I went for my 2nd drive - I keep wanting to pull from the left to the right for the seat belt and getting back into the car after the grocery store I opened the passenger side door first. Oopsy Poopsy.
On a side note, many of you will be happy to know that being in England has helped me with my left and rights!! It is helpful that at most of the crosswalks painted just past the curb are the words 'LOOK RIGHT' or 'LOOK LEFT' - 90% of the time I look the correct way first without thinking about it :) YESSSSS.

We're baaaaacck!!

We bought a new computer :) It's a mini laptop - but it does the job & it will be perfect for travel. Definitely excited to be connected again...I was getting tired of dropping money at the library for each half hour I was there.

On Monday we found some pretty amazing deals to Dublin, March 6th-8th. Each flight was less than a pound!! It was the taxes and fees that brought the cost back up to just a little over 100 pounds for both our roundtrip tickets.

Staying put this weekend -

A year older & a little tired but...

...we made it back from London! Our hotel room left a little to be desired - tiny, warm, with creaky floors and a bed on wheels but it worked. You pay for what you get...we had a great location & two nights for £174. Not too shabby besides,we spent more time out and about than we did in our room. Our dinner cruise was amazing and I think I might be the first bridesmaid to actually wear a bridesmaid dress more than once. I ended up wearing the bridesmaids dress I wore for Mary's wedding for the dinner and Kevin was looking more than sharp in his new tan suit :) We didn't make it anywhere else after the cruise - I think the bottle of champange while getting ready combined with the two bottles of wine at dinner did us in. Feeling a little sluggish the next morning we still managed to be out wondering the streets of London a little before 10am. We toured around seeing Buckingham Palace, The National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden Markets, and the Science Museum and decided on some quality mexican food for dinner. We waited in line 20mins to put our name on the hour long wait (stupid Valentines Day) to eat fajitas but it was totally worth it and we will definitely be taking Andrea, Tim & Olivia there when they come. Sunday we spent a little over an hour in the British Musuem - but we could have spent the entire day - the place was HUGE. We decided that we could come back to it when Andrea & Tim came in May so we left to go back to the Covent Garden Markets for some shopping and lunch before we left. We had a bottle of wine outside while people watching and observing several of the street performers. We took a ton of pictures but I'm unable to upload them at the library using their computers so until we figure out computer situation out :/

We had an awesome time in London and can't wait to go back when Andrea, Tim & Olivia come! Booking our flights right now for our next adventure: Dublin, March 6th.

And I thought this week was going to be a good week...

Our laptop (Andrea & Tim's laptop) is fried :( While setting the board for our new game last night a glass of wine was spilt and the majority of the wine landed on the laptop and the iPod. The iPod seems fine & we let the laptop dry out and recover all night but when I plugged it in and tried powering it up it shut down within 2 seconds. I'm mad & sad :( The computer/internet has been really been the only form of communication we've had with a lot of people & now we don't have it :/ We can't upload and post our pictures, we can't check the weather, we can't search online at home for train tickets, hotels and flights. It's really going to rock our world. We'll probably try to take it into PC World, a computer store here, and see if they can do anything about it. We've obviously lost everything on the computer which includes an excel sheet of all our expenditures while in England - as requested by Kevin's company for tax purposes...we can figure it out by back tracking thru our bank statements - but it's going to be a pain. I'm using the library's computer right now (costs £1 for every half hour) - so we'll still have that and Kevin has limited access to the internet at work. Point is it sucks. It's not our laptop and we fried it and I can't even call anyone to complain to because no one is awake!!! grrrrrr rufff.

My old and crappy laptop is at my parents house which we will have to figure a way to get to where Kevin is going to be when he goes back to the states in March.

blahhhh.