WOW

so WOW.
my life..... has been busy (obviously) hence the no updating.

friday. i worked. then went out with jordon and emma and some knaresbourgh girls.

Saturday jen and i woke up early and hopped on a train down to Brighton.
it has been so far my favorite day this summer.

it was like a real vacation.... like it was REALLY truly summer.

we got there after about a 40 min train ride and walked around the beach- which was big pebbles- but beautiful none-the-less and saw the pier. which reminded me a bit of navy pier. we decided to walk down the pier and saw....... RIDES.

we bought wristbands and spent the morning riding rides. roller coasters- spinning things- even a ride which jen said looked kiddish- but was incredibly scary! yet amazing. i felt like i was 5 and it was pure fun.

no learning or history or anything. absolute fun.

after our adventure we headed off to go shopping and weaved our way in and out of streets and stores.
we took a break and sat on the beach for a while.... reminded me of bethany! and then went off to a great italian/seafood dinner.
after that we came home and crashed because we were sooo tired!


sunday we woke up early again and did a free tour of Old City London.
haha weve been here over a month and we are still touring and learning about the city we live in!

after a great tour we stopped by spittafeilds- really cute mainly clothing market in Liverpool. we came home and made another AMAZING dinner.... if i must say so myself!
we are getting to be quite the chefs!

after that im pretty sure we just went to bed!

Monday was work. then class.

today i woke up at 6 (boo) and traveled with kelsey out to east london--- degenham? and watched a theatre troupe from south africa perform something quite similar to MWAH! with the theme of HIV/AIDS.
after some video of that and the trek back just worked on some stuff at work before heading out to meet the Holmbergs!!!!

they are in town (obviously) and we went to this great indian place for dinner (where i even tried things!!!!) and then went to see Hairspray!
Hairspray was different here than it was in NYC but still fabulous. and we had amazing seats as well!

then we went back to the their club lounge and had cookies and fruit before i headed home on the tube with my HUGE duffel bag full of enough food to last me the summer !!! (yay more money for traveling :)

i got the biggest size jar of peter pan ever made (pretty sure my mom had it custom ordered)
an incredible drawing from my brother!!!! (thanks so much kian!)
and all kinds of other fabulous snacks and breakfast foods and packets of rice mixed with veggies and shake and bake and other great things.... also KETTLE CORN !!!!!!! (which is one of my favorite snacks EVER!)

thanks sooooo much mom and dad i am soooo greatful and happy for the surprise package!!!!
also thanks to the Holmbergs for an amazing evening.

off to sleep before.... you guessed it--- work!
:)