Paris is comming!
thursday night i will be in paris! (or as i like to call it...paree!) i've been studying hard, getting laundry done and packing up my ever growing collection of stuff that i have accumulated over here. i sent some stuff home yesterday...wasn't all too cheap but i simply didn't have room for an easter basket. just wasn't going to work. so...6:30 am thursday, i'm on a bus headed for the ferry over to france. scarry.
i thought i would leave you with a list of all that i have done that i still haven't mentioned on the blog...a lot of it is trips to london. here you go:
-the trans-international scrabble game between louise and andy. louise won but we had fun with everyone. we had paparazzi there, commentators, official word looker-upper, and official rules person. we had good old fashion fun.
-thursday gloucester green markets. it's a huge rummage sale and all very cool. you can find almost anything, for cheap.
-first visit to london: buckingham palace, outside of westminster abbey (much too expensive to go in), big ben and parliament sightings, trafalger square and beautiful fountains, national gallery of art (van gogh's sunflowers!), show: STOMP! banging on everything including the kitchen sink, double choc flake frescatos...mmm, mmm, good, moving statues, street shows, street paintings, outside british airways london eye (the huge faris wheel)... i heart london!
-2nd trip to london, 1st trip by myself...see posting below
-3rd trip to london: tower of london including seeing the crown jewels (soo soo pretty), the story of the 2 murdered princes and not knowing who killed them, anne bolyn's grave and where she was beheaded and where she was proposed too, learned she was witch like...had 6 fingers! saw the london bridge, pretty depressing, real one is in arizona of all places. HARD ROCK CAFE! they had honey mustard! went into the vault and held jimi hendrix's guitar! saw the huge collection of guitars and could hold what ever i wanted, saw paul lennon's hand written songs, learned how the hard rock was first started as this was the first hard rock: eric clapton used to live by the american cafe in london and went in for his daily drink and someone was in his spot and the bartender argued that that person's money was just as good as clapton's so eric came back the next day with a signed poster and demanded his spot back and then other artist started pouring in other memorabilia and then when the american cafe decided to go international they changed to the hard rock cafe.
-city of bath and the roman baths, the city of burford (cotswald village)
-4th trip to london, 2nd solo trip: Tate Britain art museum, at leister square saw nicole kidman at london premiere of the interpreter, went and saw chicago on stage
-Warwick Castle: old medieval castle, climbed all over it, saw peacock gardens and many old torture devices and elizabeth I riding sadle.
-stratford-upon-avon: saw shakespear's grave, his supposed childhood school, and his supposed birth house (they don't have actual proof but are pretty sure that's where he was born, saw the royal shakespear company's a midsummer's night dream, the guy who played puck was the same guy who was heath ledger's friend in a knight's tale plus a couple (well more than a couple) pounds, AND i fed a swam ice cream. it was amazing
-had to deal with my dog's death. it was hard.
-5th and final trip to london: left really early, kensington palace and gardens, princess diana's dresses and princess margaret's state apartment and king william III's state apartment (it's big), also queen victoria and mary (the queen mum) were born there. i also saw a collection of queen elizabeth II's dresses. london eye ride and how they tell you to "enjoy your flight!", a quick run through the tate modern for jill, and the jack the ripper tour...it's not pretty what he did.
i thought i would leave you with a list of all that i have done that i still haven't mentioned on the blog...a lot of it is trips to london. here you go:
-the trans-international scrabble game between louise and andy. louise won but we had fun with everyone. we had paparazzi there, commentators, official word looker-upper, and official rules person. we had good old fashion fun.
-thursday gloucester green markets. it's a huge rummage sale and all very cool. you can find almost anything, for cheap.
-first visit to london: buckingham palace, outside of westminster abbey (much too expensive to go in), big ben and parliament sightings, trafalger square and beautiful fountains, national gallery of art (van gogh's sunflowers!), show: STOMP! banging on everything including the kitchen sink, double choc flake frescatos...mmm, mmm, good, moving statues, street shows, street paintings, outside british airways london eye (the huge faris wheel)... i heart london!
-2nd trip to london, 1st trip by myself...see posting below
-3rd trip to london: tower of london including seeing the crown jewels (soo soo pretty), the story of the 2 murdered princes and not knowing who killed them, anne bolyn's grave and where she was beheaded and where she was proposed too, learned she was witch like...had 6 fingers! saw the london bridge, pretty depressing, real one is in arizona of all places. HARD ROCK CAFE! they had honey mustard! went into the vault and held jimi hendrix's guitar! saw the huge collection of guitars and could hold what ever i wanted, saw paul lennon's hand written songs, learned how the hard rock was first started as this was the first hard rock: eric clapton used to live by the american cafe in london and went in for his daily drink and someone was in his spot and the bartender argued that that person's money was just as good as clapton's so eric came back the next day with a signed poster and demanded his spot back and then other artist started pouring in other memorabilia and then when the american cafe decided to go international they changed to the hard rock cafe.
-city of bath and the roman baths, the city of burford (cotswald village)
-4th trip to london, 2nd solo trip: Tate Britain art museum, at leister square saw nicole kidman at london premiere of the interpreter, went and saw chicago on stage
-Warwick Castle: old medieval castle, climbed all over it, saw peacock gardens and many old torture devices and elizabeth I riding sadle.
-stratford-upon-avon: saw shakespear's grave, his supposed childhood school, and his supposed birth house (they don't have actual proof but are pretty sure that's where he was born, saw the royal shakespear company's a midsummer's night dream, the guy who played puck was the same guy who was heath ledger's friend in a knight's tale plus a couple (well more than a couple) pounds, AND i fed a swam ice cream. it was amazing
-had to deal with my dog's death. it was hard.
-5th and final trip to london: left really early, kensington palace and gardens, princess diana's dresses and princess margaret's state apartment and king william III's state apartment (it's big), also queen victoria and mary (the queen mum) were born there. i also saw a collection of queen elizabeth II's dresses. london eye ride and how they tell you to "enjoy your flight!", a quick run through the tate modern for jill, and the jack the ripper tour...it's not pretty what he did.
posted by andi at 9:12 AM
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