Weee I'm so happy you're coming over this year! Yaaaay! You'll have to let me know if there's anything in particular you really want to see (keeping in mind that London is a five hour drive and anything more south than that is a bit of a drive for a day trip). Things everyone gets to see when they come over because I insist:
Edinburgh, Scotland. York and Liverpool, England. Various bits of Wales.
Yayyyyyy! I had to wait to post about it 'til I was done capslocking (like the other day)
I would like to see London - hmmm. Maybe we could stay there a night? That is a rather long drive. I clipped something in the paper that looked cool but I think it's REALLY south so might not be worth it.
My coworker who visited in the early 80s says she's going to bring in a whole bunch of stuff and tell me what I HAVE to go see. Heh - this is probably like when people get married, everyone and their mom has an opinion about what you should do! I'm pretty laidback though, will be happy no matter what we do and will probably just be sqeeing about the rain the whole time anyway. (it BETTER rain when I'm there, dangit)
The problem with spending the night anywhere is we have a dog and a cat. (Also, London is crap...but that's neither here nor there.) And it totally will rain. Especially in September. And if I take you to Wales, I don't think it ever stops raining there
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Yeah, I actually received a text message on it once. But I couldn't reply. And my text-happy friend insisted that I could... but he couldn't figure it out either. Ha! It's only 3 or 4 years old. I had the most basic service on it though, maybe that just didn't include texting... which now seems to be standard.
Exciting! Have you looked at tickets yet? If not, you should definitely do it ASAP (I know, this is probably me being stupid and telling you things you already know), because things were mostly booked when I got my ticket last year (seven months in advance). Of course, I was flying during spring break-ish time (but who goes to England for spring break? ...other than crazy people like me), but still.
Also, you should totally be better at sending postcards than I was. >.> *still has her postcards somewhere*
Also also, haha, I got my passport in, like, three weeks without the expedited service. *points and laughs* I'm glad the travel agent person told me to do it in August instead of December.
O_O This all just came about but I do plan on looking at tickets, like... now. Hopefully it'll be fine since I'm flexible with when I can leave, as opposed to you who HAD to go during spring break time... what airline did you go on? I want to go in September/early Octoberish maybe, since it's still really hot here then. Any later than that and I'd miss out on the good weather here. Which is okay, just not preferable.
Ohhh yeah postcards!
You're lucky. You got yours before the new law of needing one to go to Mexico and Canada. *sigh*
I flew on BMI, which was a really nice airline. The food was okay, and they had good in-flight entertainment. Also, I went through expedia.com - I tried to go to our local travel agency, but they wanted me to pay something like a hundred dollars more. Overall, shopping around online is probably going to be your best bet - I probably checked four or five websites, if not more. Can you get a direct flight from Phoenix to Manchester?
I got mine early BECAUSE I knew they were going to start requiring them to go to Mexico and Canada. If not for that, I would've waited till I was home for Christmas break to get my passport (which also entailed getting my third or fourth copy of my birth certificate - my mom is no longer allowed to keep track of my legal documents).
I went to Hawaii ten years ago and couldn't go directly from here. So my guess is I'll have to connect somewhere. Thanks for the advice! I'll sniff around tonight.
I have my original birth certificate in my hot little hands, yay. My mom had it until this weekend, though. Lucky for me she's fairly organized.
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Edinburgh, Scotland.
York and Liverpool, England.
Various bits of Wales.
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I would like to see London - hmmm. Maybe we could stay there a night? That is a rather long drive. I clipped something in the paper that looked cool but I think it's REALLY south so might not be worth it.
My coworker who visited in the early 80s says she's going to bring in a whole bunch of stuff and tell me what I HAVE to go see. Heh - this is probably like when people get married, everyone and their mom has an opinion about what you should do! I'm pretty laidback though, will be happy no matter what we do and will probably just be sqeeing about the rain the whole time anyway. (it BETTER rain when I'm there, dangit)
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I won't die if we don't go, really.
We should take the train SOMEwhere cuz we don't have trains here! At least not passenger ones.
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Texting sure beats talking, though. Except it's more expensive!
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Also, you should totally be better at sending postcards than I was. >.> *still has her postcards somewhere*
Also also, haha, I got my passport in, like, three weeks without the expedited service. *points and laughs* I'm glad the travel agent person told me to do it in August instead of December.
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Ohhh yeah postcards!
You're lucky. You got yours before the new law of needing one to go to Mexico and Canada. *sigh*
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I got mine early BECAUSE I knew they were going to start requiring them to go to Mexico and Canada. If not for that, I would've waited till I was home for Christmas break to get my passport (which also entailed getting my third or fourth copy of my birth certificate - my mom is no longer allowed to keep track of my legal documents).
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I have my original birth certificate in my hot little hands, yay. My mom had it until this weekend, though. Lucky for me she's fairly organized.
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