You say thanks, I say cheers.

Okay so I figured it was time for a real update.

Oh the things that have happened....
Major things:
-Dublin:
Two weekends ago now Laura and I took our trip to Dublin. Since planning my semester abroad I knew a trip to Ireland was part of the plan. Dublin did not disappoint. We enjoyed some lovely irish music on our first night there to ease us into the weekend away. Saturday was a full day of site seeing with St. Patricks Cathedral and the Guiness Brewery. YUMMM. When you reach the end of the tour you are rewarded with the most wonderful pint of stout goodness you will ever consume. I recommend it for everyone.The trip continued through sunday night with some amazing irish food with some baileys on the rocks. Overall Ireland: A

-Scotland:
Last weekend Anna and I made the trip up to Edinburgh with two of the girls from my flat. We took the train from Kings Cross and of course enjoyed the chance for the Harry Potter photo-op at platform 9 3/4. I mean we were basically taking the Harry Potter train anyway with our destination of Edinburgh!
After a beautiful train ride through the countryside we arrived in Scotland hungry and ready to explore. Thursday night we checked out the castle and spent Valentines day watching the top 100 love songs of all time countdown on british VH1-type TV.
Fridaywe explored Edinburgh castle and made the trek down the royal mile and up to Arthur's Seat. We discovered that we took the longest most treacherous way up to the top but were rewarded with spectacular views.


Saturday was filled with a 12 hour coach tour up through the Scottish highlands! Here I got to meet my new bff Hamish McHaggis (Anna added the last name). We also enjoyed beautiful sites at Glencoe and Loch Ness and I had a wonderful lunch of Venison Bangers and Mash. YUM! I have concluded that I think Scotland is my favorite place that I have visited while being in Europe (not lived of course because Paris is hands down number 1). Overall: A++

Other News:
--I bought our family tartan in Scotland
--Anna and I went to a fashionspace release event during fashion week where we discovered that apparently all the skinny bitches in London really are Bitches.
--I have become obsessed with British music.

This week has been insane with final exams and the 5 essays I had to compose for my tourism class. YIKES! I am finally done though and feel pretty confident about the results.

Tonight we are leaving for Portugal for our spring holiday. We start in Porto where Bobby is joining our adventure and moving south to Lisbon Monday until Thursday when I return to London for Brandons arrival!

Adeus!

ps-here is ewan mcgregor for your viewing pleasure:

'Another Mama for Obama" (sign at the primary)

so number one in a series of updates:

last tuesday was the first time in history that Americans have been able to go in person to cast a vote abroad. The Democratic Party has created an organization known as Democrats Abroad who have made it possible for the americans living/studying abroad to vote in person for the primaries! woo hoo

so around 7pm tuesday night Jessie and I went across hyde park to the voting location and along with lots of other ex-pats cast our votes! It was such a great atmosphere! There were people lined up around the building to get in to cast their vote then upstairs there were areas for obama and hilary including cookies, beers and of course a stage where you could cast your vote infront of everyone if you chose to do so. It was an awesome opportunity and im pretty proud i got to take part in it!

On the subject of Dinner and Dessert

so when talking about the adorable-ness of Aube's babies this is what bobby had to say:
focs19 (01:06:31 am): well i don't like babies
focs19 (01:06:34 am): except for black ones
focs19 (01:06:44 am): *her babies are not black
focs19 (01:07:02 am): actually, they remind me of vladimir putin
focs19 (01:07:28 am): so they instill a sense of fear in me

so very random but it made me laugh.

in other news: way to go VA with Obama for the Democrats.

finally: i went to dublin this weekend. real updates later.

The day I met my future husband....

So two bits of news.

1. Saturday Anna and I spent the morning at Borough Market, which is my mecca. Imagine every amazing item of food fresh and right at your disposal! We enjoyed some cream tea before I went off to St. Paul's for the long hike up the 400+ stairs to the top! The evening was the best part of the day!
We went Vinopolis for an incredible wine tasting. We tried wines from all over the world including Argentina, India, Germany, New Zeland, Brazil and many others. This also included tastes of Absinthe, Whiskey and Beer, most of which just made us cringe. While enjoying our Bombay Cocktail Anna spotted two of the actors from the British show Hollyoaks adding to our list of celeb sightings. Afterwards we enjoyed an amazing dinner of Indian food....YUMMY!

2. now the exciting bit and the reasoning for the title. After waking up at 5:30 this morning and waiting outside in the freezing cold for FOUR HOURS Anna and I have secured ourselves two tickets to Othello tonight!!!! Iago is played by none other than Ewan McGregor (see title) and Othello by Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kiera Knightley's husband in Love Actually). This is going to be an amaaaaaaaaazing night!!!!!!

We are the package deal...

oh em ef day.

last night = beyond ridiculous.

So it started with some wonderful Lebenese food at the high street and then we decided to head out to Soho.
First stop: Random pub for a pint.

After we decide to wander and find another place to go out. On the way we meet some random guy who after asking if we were American tells us to "just go back home." As we step into the next pub and haley tells us this we meet another Brit who promises to prove to us that Brits really do like Americans and he will take us to see "classy london"
this means Members Clubs (basically you pay ridiculous sums of money to be a member at these exclusive clubs, very popular with celebs and the London elite)

First we went to Soho House where we passed none other than Lionel Richie in the stairwell inside. We relax, enjoy some wonderful drinks and take in the ridiculous beauty of the tiny place. (Also here is where we discovered we are the package deal: Blonde, Brunette, Redhead, Gay guy....what else could a man want?)

After this start where else is there to go but Cuckoo Club ?? Seriously?! I was beyond floored with this evening. After dancing away with super tall and super skinny supermodels we called it a night and recapped the ridiculous luck of our night in a cab ride back to South Ken.

So London?? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing!