Forgive any typos... I don't feel like taking time to proof my entry... computer=expensive!
Time for the next update I guess, though I don't know how long this is going to be.
We're in York right now, we leave tomorrow, so it's our last night here. I can't say I'll be too sad to be leaving... don't get me wrong. York is a beautiful city, full of history and culture. They have this beautiful cathedral, and the city center is a mixture of small shops with picturesque hanging signs and flowers flowing from window baskets, but I didn't like it very much. I suppose it appeals to many tourists; I had no idea it was such a tourist town, but it's not so great for, say, two girls visiting from the US who like more than one internet cafe in the whole city, and would like a payphone nearer to the hostel, which is about a 20-30 minute walk to the city center. Not that this is terribly long, but when you walk it about 3 times a day, it can get old real fast. Besides, I have a personal vendetta against York, as it was the Yorks versus the Lancasters in the War of the Roses, and obviously the fact that this city is named after the family that was rivals of my last name in a country 4,000 miles from where I was born, about 800 years ago is reason enough to dislike it. Heh.
Maybe it's just I'm antsy to get to Scotland, or more probably the fact that I'm antsy to get back home... I feel like I could have cut out London and York, and just visited Manchester, and then Glasgow and Edinburgh, and fly back, and I would be good. Before I left, my mum was telling me how she went on a trip to Scotland and England with her cousin right after she and my dad got married, and how it wasn't easy... now, I'm not married or anything, but not seeing my babe for even 2 weeks is really bugging me. Especially since phone calls cost so much, and I can only get online so much. Ah well... a growing experience, I suppose. I just miss him... though if you've been reading any of my journals, I'm sure you've heard that a lot. heh. I'd apologize for saying the same thing a lot, but it still applies now, so I'm not going to.
Tomorrow we head to Glasgow, or first city in Scotland, for which I'm glad. I'm going to have to find the pub that my dad and I went to when we went years ago... I remember vaguelly where it is... and that inside, it had carved columns and ceiling, made to look like trees and such. And there was a band playing, which was pretty cool. Hopefully I'll find it... if not though, I'm sure there'll be plenty of interesting places where we can occupy ourselves. Apparently our hostel is pretty centrally located, or at least that's what the german guy said back in london who used to live there.
We spend 5 nights there, 4 nights in Aberdeen, and then 5 more in Edinburgh. Then to Amsterdam... and then home. I'll be glad when we get there.
I'm sure I've already talked about Pam's and my tattoos... if you don't read Pam's blog, then here's a picture of mine, and a picture of Pams. Mine is the lotus (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k147/Kara_Vevina/DSCN9605.jpg), her's is the circut-board inspired one (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k147/Kara_Vevina/DSCN9635.jpg). Well, she's apparently allergic to either the tattoo itself, or the cream that the artist said to use, because her skin has broken out around the tattoo... she switched cream, so hopefully it'll go away within a couple days.
Oh, the other big thing that happened here is that I got my tongue pierced! It gives me a weird speech impediment, where I can't pronounce the "th" sound, and l's are hard to pronounce. It'll be all healed up by the time I get back home though, which makes me a happy panda, and is one of the reasons I got it here. Not that I'm getting addicted to body mods, no. In fact, I don't want any more tattoos, especially none to add onto my back, around the lotus, and no more piercings, especially not of my navel and/or nipples and/or more on my ears. But, any more I get will have to wait until I get back to the States... so I have time to think which I want most. Heh.
That's all I can think of to update with at the moment... I really miss home and my love and all my friends, and I'll be really happy to get back. Not that I'm having a horrid time here, I just miss Wichita. >_> Never thought I'd say that... =P Anyway. All of you reading, take care of yourselves, and most of you I'll probably see when I get back. Be well!
We're in York right now, we leave tomorrow, so it's our last night here. I can't say I'll be too sad to be leaving... don't get me wrong. York is a beautiful city, full of history and culture. They have this beautiful cathedral, and the city center is a mixture of small shops with picturesque hanging signs and flowers flowing from window baskets, but I didn't like it very much. I suppose it appeals to many tourists; I had no idea it was such a tourist town, but it's not so great for, say, two girls visiting from the US who like more than one internet cafe in the whole city, and would like a payphone nearer to the hostel, which is about a 20-30 minute walk to the city center. Not that this is terribly long, but when you walk it about 3 times a day, it can get old real fast. Besides, I have a personal vendetta against York, as it was the Yorks versus the Lancasters in the War of the Roses, and obviously the fact that this city is named after the family that was rivals of my last name in a country 4,000 miles from where I was born, about 800 years ago is reason enough to dislike it. Heh.
Maybe it's just I'm antsy to get to Scotland, or more probably the fact that I'm antsy to get back home... I feel like I could have cut out London and York, and just visited Manchester, and then Glasgow and Edinburgh, and fly back, and I would be good. Before I left, my mum was telling me how she went on a trip to Scotland and England with her cousin right after she and my dad got married, and how it wasn't easy... now, I'm not married or anything, but not seeing my babe for even 2 weeks is really bugging me. Especially since phone calls cost so much, and I can only get online so much. Ah well... a growing experience, I suppose. I just miss him... though if you've been reading any of my journals, I'm sure you've heard that a lot. heh. I'd apologize for saying the same thing a lot, but it still applies now, so I'm not going to.
Tomorrow we head to Glasgow, or first city in Scotland, for which I'm glad. I'm going to have to find the pub that my dad and I went to when we went years ago... I remember vaguelly where it is... and that inside, it had carved columns and ceiling, made to look like trees and such. And there was a band playing, which was pretty cool. Hopefully I'll find it... if not though, I'm sure there'll be plenty of interesting places where we can occupy ourselves. Apparently our hostel is pretty centrally located, or at least that's what the german guy said back in london who used to live there.
We spend 5 nights there, 4 nights in Aberdeen, and then 5 more in Edinburgh. Then to Amsterdam... and then home. I'll be glad when we get there.
I'm sure I've already talked about Pam's and my tattoos... if you don't read Pam's blog, then here's a picture of mine, and a picture of Pams. Mine is the lotus (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k147/Kara_Vevina/DSCN9605.jpg), her's is the circut-board inspired one (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k147/Kara_Vevina/DSCN9635.jpg). Well, she's apparently allergic to either the tattoo itself, or the cream that the artist said to use, because her skin has broken out around the tattoo... she switched cream, so hopefully it'll go away within a couple days.
Oh, the other big thing that happened here is that I got my tongue pierced! It gives me a weird speech impediment, where I can't pronounce the "th" sound, and l's are hard to pronounce. It'll be all healed up by the time I get back home though, which makes me a happy panda, and is one of the reasons I got it here. Not that I'm getting addicted to body mods, no. In fact, I don't want any more tattoos, especially none to add onto my back, around the lotus, and no more piercings, especially not of my navel and/or nipples and/or more on my ears. But, any more I get will have to wait until I get back to the States... so I have time to think which I want most. Heh.
That's all I can think of to update with at the moment... I really miss home and my love and all my friends, and I'll be really happy to get back. Not that I'm having a horrid time here, I just miss Wichita. >_> Never thought I'd say that... =P Anyway. All of you reading, take care of yourselves, and most of you I'll probably see when I get back. Be well!