The Home Stretch

We only have 1 more day left on our trip. I cant believe how fast this summer has gone by.
This weekend we went to this high ropes coarse. It was so much fun. Let me just say that if you are afraid of heights this is not for you. We were so high up in the air I was a little scared, and I dont mind heights at all. It started and ended with the two longest ziplines in the UK. It was crazy. Then we had one of the guys who worked there meet us at a pub and then he drove all 6 of us, in two different trips to the train station. It was a £40 cab ride on the way there so that was a relief. He was really nice.

Scotland is so pretty and green. The weather here has been amazing. It was a little cloudy yesterday and this morning, more foggy actually. But other than that it has only rained a couple times, and either way I never mind the rain, I love it.

Well its been a great trip and although I am sad that I have to leave I am excited to end up back in Seattle for the summer. After a short pitstop in Arizona, where it will be way to hot for me to stand, I will head home for a bit! I cant wait to see everyone!

Cheers
MalMil

Welcome to Edinburgh

We have been in Edinburgh, Scotland for a week already. The time is flying by. I cant believe I am going to be back in Arizona in less than a week, thats scary.

There is not a whole lot to do here, a lot of shopping and walking around. We went to the castle that is in town. its the queens summer home. It was amazing. This place is so beautiful and green. There are hills everywhere its amazing. The castle was really cool, we saw the crown jewels and everything.

Last night we also went on a literary pub crawl where 2 actors walked us around the city and talked about famous writers from Edinburgh. It was really fun. Not so much a "pub" crawl as it was a walking tour of the city, but it was still fun. We stopped at 2 pubs along the way. These two guys were really funny. They told great stories. We went to this amazing Italian restaurant after called Bella Italia. Its sooooo good I always finish every single thing on my plate, and everyone knows I love my Italian!! yummy!

Well as my trip is coming to an end I cant help but plan my next one!! I cant wait to travel more and more. There is so much to see and so much to do that I have missed this time around. Cant wait to show everyone pictures!!!

Peace
MalMil

8th wonder of the world

I finally got internet here in Scottland, so Im going to update everyone now!!

We left Ireland about 5 days ago but before we left we saw the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life.
We took a day trip to the Cliffs of Moher on the weekend. About 12 of us got on a big tour bus at 7am headed for the coast. We drove for a little over an hour and stopped at a truck stop to pick up some snacks and it was back on the road again for a while. It was the longest drive ever...I think, I fell asleep so I was not really watching the time. We stopped in this cute little town called Limerick. That would have been cool if our bus didnt break down there. So we walked around this little town for an hour. We saw a castle and that was about it. There was nothing open because it was a sunday so we wondered and took some pictures, then I bought a baguette and some blackberries that were amazing. We got back on a new bus and were on our way. We stopped at this really cool place right on the ocean called the Barren Land. It was all rock just right on the water with little patches of grass and all of these pretty little flowers growing right out of this rock. It was really cool. We stayed there for a little while before taking another ride to a little lunch spot where I had some seafood chowder, it was really good. We finally left to go to the most beautiful place in the world. We got to the cliffs and went over to look but there was this big wall and there was really not a lot to see. So we did what any good tourist would do...we went to the end of this "safety wall" and climbed right over it! There was a little sign telling us not to so we took a picture with the sign and walked along the edge of the cliffs. It was AMAZING, and so worth climbing over the wall because you could see everything. I took 100000 pictures but none of them really capture how beautiful it was up there. We all sat there and tried to take everything in. I cant even explain what I was looking at. We only had an hour to look around and an hour is not long enough. We ran back to the bus because we were late. We drove all the way back to Dublin and it took sooo long, I slept again. I think that was the most I have ever slept in a car in my life.

We also went to the Guiness factory and went on a tour. It was pretty cool but Heineken was a better tour. At the end we went into the gravity bar and you could see all of Dublin from up there. It was really cool. Im not the biggest fan of Guiness but I did try it in Dublin...and probably will not be drinking it again!

The Temple Bar area was really cool, the music was amazing, the food was not bad, the drinks were expensive, the senery was unbelievable and I LOVE DUBLIN!!!!!!

Peace
MalMil

Ireland...finally

I got to wake up at 4 in the morning today and drag my heavy suitcase bag and purse, into a tiny elevator then get them on a bus, off the bus, into the airport (my bag is still underweight, YES) out of the other airport, onto another bus, off of that bus, up a light of stairs and into my new room.  that only took about 6 hours!  Crazy! 

Now I know that I have said that I want to live everywhere I have been so far...and I have only been in Ireland for a few hours...but I want to live here so bad.  I am going to get a little flat that is covered in ivy with a lime green door and flower boxes under my windows and on my mini balcony.  It is so pretty here.  we have to take a 20 minute bus ride to get into downtown Dublin and the ride is really pretty.  I love the change in accent from British to Irish.  I just love accents in general.  

The ride from the airport to our place really reminded me of Seattle, more than anything else has so far.  It was nice and sunny when we arrived.  We went to dinner and stopped to look at a pub but didnt get anything to drink...we did get some free post cards from the nice bar tender who loved us because we were from America.  The people here are so friendly, I love it.  by the time we got downtown to eat it was raining, but it was the best rain ever.  Thick, heavy drops, but it was still raining slowly so it wasnt crazy, I loved it.  We had class in the grass today too when it was sunny.  It was great.  I am really looking forward to this week.  I am sad that we are only in Ireland for 7 days though.  Then its off to Edinburgh for 10 more days and its all over.  Its going by so fast, I cant believe it.  I dont want to leave yet.  I have so much to do still.  I am trying to devise a secret "how to miss the plane" plan for us so we can just stay here!  :) 

Peace 

MalMil

"You sound like your from London!!"

So we found our common room a couple days before we are leaving for Ireland...and it is soooo cool.  There is a flat screen TV with crazy cable and movie channels and everything.  Too bad we are leaving because for the past couple of nights there have been tons of people in there watching movies and studying for our midterms...yes midterms.  That means we are already half way done :( so sad.  I cant wait to come back here and finish my trip!  There is just so much to do here its crazy.

After my midterm in pop culture I went off by myself to explore for my last day in London.  Plus everyone else went shopping because they are running out of cloths...I just did laundry.  I went to the Movium (movie museum) and I love movies so it was really cool.  They had a Harry Potter exhibit and a Beatles exhibit and a pirates exhibit and and animation section!  All of my favorites.  It was really cool I loved it!  I got a lot of pretty good pictures.  But seeing the Harry Potter section made me really want to try and get to platform 9 and 3/4.  So I decided I could find it in an hour and a half before I had to meet the group for another museum.  So I took the tube to another tube and took that one to Kings Cross.  I got off and asked 3 different guys who worked there where I could find the platform.  They directed me there and it was so cool.  Since I was all by myself I asked some strangers (tourists) to take my picture for me.  But it turned out a little blurry.  Oh well.  It was worth it.  I was pushing my cart into the platform so I could get to the Hogwarts Express and go to school!!

After my Harry Potter adventure I had to get back to Kensington where we are staying to meet up with everyone because we had a tour at the Tate Modern Museum.  so I took the tube to meet them.  I got there 10 minutes early.  Perfect timing.  We went to the Tate and got a little tour but it was a little disappointing because the lady was showing us all of these painting that we have already learned about like Monet and Andy Warhol but I really wanted to see the ones that we not so famous.  So when it was over I walked through with a couple of girls, it was really cool.  Well guess who was in the museum at the same time as us with his kids (AND WE MISSED HIM) Jude Law!!  of corse.  Victoria and Amy were late to the tour and they saw him coming out when they got there.  WE MISSED JUDE LAW!  uhhhggg,  I just wanna see someone famous and cool!  that is my new goal! haha

Well it was our last day in London and we are leaving at 4 am (4 hours from now) to get on a bus then a plane then another bus.  But I am super excited to explore Dublin!

FINALLY DUBLIN!  I feel like Ive been waiting for this moment my whole life!!!!

Peace 

MalMil

and then there was war...

Today we had a lecture on war.  mostly WWII, and then the guy took us to the Imperial War Museum.  It was really interesting to go through all of the exhibits.  There was a lot in the museum about WWII, huge planes and trucks and stuff that were used in the wars and everything.  We went through a house were there were 2 different kinds of bomb shelters that were used, one for outside and one for inside.  

The tour guide took us through most of the museum and left us out side of another section that we could go into if we wanted but didnt have to because it was about the holocaust.  Duh I went through it. It was done really well.  There were a bunch of different videos throughout the exhibition of interviews from survivors. It was really cool how they put it all together, very intense and emotional but there was a lot of information about everything, even things that have been almost overlooked like all of the other communities and cultures and lifestyles that were attacked by Hitler and his army as well.  I loved everything about this museum it was really cool.

Peace 

MalMil

This is a long one...

So I have been too busy/tired to sit and update this so here it goes!

Starting with Billy Elliott.  So amazing.  This little boy was the best dancer ever. I kid you not...EVER.  He danced like a 25 year old professional.  His best friend was also really really good and the Grandma was my favorite!  It was all around amazing.  One of the best plays I've seen in a while.

Speaking of BEST plays EVER...I also saw Wicked FINALLY.  I have been trying to see this play since I was a senior at West Seattle...and 4 years later, I saw it in LONDON!  It was so good.  Great story line that overlapped with The Wizard of OZ, it was very clever.  I already knew all of the music so it was nice to see it performed.  

Since we are leaving on Wednesday for Ireland we have been running out of time here in London.  There is so much that I want to do still.  But we did do a few really cool things.  I got to go to Abbey Road!  This was the best day of my life I swear.  I was freaking out and everyone thought I was so funny.  I wrote on the wall and walked across the cross walk and everything.  then I went to this Beatles Coffee shop where they had all of this cool merchandise and I got my Beatles souvenirs.  

Also went to a museum that was basically a time machine.  you walk through and there are all kinds of products and ads in the cases.  When you start the stuff is all from the 20s and older, then its moves through time and you can see how everything changes.  There was also a huge Beatles case there, I got a lot of pictures of that!  It was really cool there, seeing what my parents and grandparents had and used, and talk about.  I took a bunch of pictures there.  the last little bit was all products through time together.  Like there were pepsi and coke cans from the 1st one until now all in a like.    candy, alcohol, a lots of food products, cleaning supplies...everything!  It was really cool.  After the Branding and Advertising museum we went into a bunch of really cool vintage shops by Notting Hill and had pizza for lunch.

We have also been looking up the "cool" clubs to go to here.  The techno places or "base and drum"  I cant tell the difference between the two though, its all crazy dance music.  We looked up places the stars and the princes go to also.  Well we havent really been to a lot of those places but we did go to a couple cool ones.  KU is a gay club that we went to that was pretty fun, it was in China Town.  Koko was my favorite.  it used to be an old theatre, they just took out all of the seats, there was live music when we got there and then a really good DJ and a screen playing some crazy stuff.  It was really pretty inside and you could go all the way up to the balconies and stuff, it was huge.  We also went to Ice Bar London.  There is a 40min maximum that you can stay in there.  The cups and chairs and walls and the bar, really EVERYTHING is ice.  They give you these coats with fur hoods and gloves, it was really fun but everyone was soooo cold.  

We went to the London Aquarium that was soooo cool.  It was HUGE and they had the biggest tanks everywhere.  It was the best aquarium I have been in.  We were too late to go to the movie museum after that so we will go this week before we leave. Today we went to the Science museum where they had a big wallace and gromit exibit that was all interactive for kids and it was the best part!  The rest of the museum got boring for me because it was all crazy math stuff and things that didnt make sense, but it was still interesting.  I just didnt know what I was looking at half of the time! haha.  Then we went to the Natural History Museum.  It was so big we didnt see it all.  The animals and the dinosaurs were my favorite part.  It was really cool.  Made me think of night at the museum.  There was a butterfly house there too that was cool because there were other animals in it too like this fat frog and spiders and lizards.  Other animals that live in the rainforest with the butterflies in there.

Wow!  OK  I think thats it for now...Im sure I forgot something and I will add it later!

Im having the best time!

Peace 

MalMil

more amsterdam...

So besides everything I already mentioned in the other REALLY long post about Amsterdam  these are a few tips that I would suggest if you go (and other things I forgot earlier) 

1.  The red light district: If you are looking for a clean prostitute that stands in a glass door/window, in an itty bitty bikini Amsterdam is the place to be.  I also suggest that you give them a little wave, some of them will not like it because they dont want a wave, they want your money, but its fun anyways.

2.  Stroop Waffles:  these little sweet waffle things are sooo good.  I am going to order them online when I get home because I am craving them.  They are a good breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack or dessert.  Amazing little treats!

3.  Abraxas and Greenhouse coffee shops:  Really good atmosphere, clean and not too packed.  We had a group of 10 and we didnt have space issues.  Plus Greenhouse has some bomb food...there are 2 Abraxas' one looks like a tree house, that one was the best, just a little smaller.

4.  FEBO: The most disgusting, amazing  fast food ever.  I cant even explain a FEBO there are literally vending machine walls of hot food, and a little counter where you can get a couple other things like the amazing fries and mayo.  Its the best worst food Ive ever had.

So there is my list, short and sweet.  notice there are 4 items...duh 4.  But there is much more to do, see and eat there!

peace

MalMil

Amsterdam-lekker lekker

This past weekend a group of 10 of us went to Amsterdam.  

When you hear about Amsterdam from your friends who have been there before they tell you about the "coffee" shops and the bars and clubs to go to.  Where the best weed is, where the cheapest drinks are etc.  But one thing that I never heard a lot about is how absolutely beautiful it is there.  When we got off the metro and went looking for our hotel none of us were complaining about the walk or the fact that we were lost or that our bags were heavy.  We were all looking around, taking everything in.  It was soo pretty there, and I had no idea it was going to be that way.  Everything was also surprisingly clean.  There was also a lot to do there, we didnt even get to everything.  I am so glad that I went.  at first I thought it was going to be a very lazy, smoke-filled weekend and I was not sure about spending the whole weekend doing that instead of traveling more, but I was completely wrong and I am so happy I went.

We went to the Anne Frank House and it was so cool.  A little eerie.  There were pieces of her diary written on the walls throughout the house and pictures of the families, letters and postcards written by them, or for them.  Videos and interviews from the people who helped them hide.  Her actual diary was at the end and then we all signed a guest book thing before leaving.  It was so really cool to actually be there and see what they experienced so many years ago.  

We went from Anne Frank to the Heineken Factory.  That was really cool to go through.  There were so many rooms and things to look at there.  We got to taste the beer after "stage 1" when it was just hops and barley basically.  It was interesting.  There were rooms full of old advertisements and adds for Heineken.  At the end we got 2 free beers (that I didnt drink, gross) and behind the bar there were 3 T.V.s running clips of movies that had Heineken.  I sat and watched that for a while and there are a lot of the same actors, in different movies drinking the same beer (Heineken), and I never realized it before. 

We also went to the zoo which was so so so much fun, and everyone knows how much I love the zoo.  This zoo was so big we didnt even see it all.  It was set up in such a different way than any other zoo I had ever been to.  The exhibits were very open and you could get close to the animals.  You could literally reach your hands into almost every exhibit.  It was a little scary.  It was also a lot dirtier than zoos in America.  There were a lot of "bird of prey" like owls and stuff there and there were so many dead animals at the bottom of their cages.  We saw like 5 dead mice in one, and little bunny head (ripped off, SO GROSS) on the floor of another.  They also dont clean up after the animals very often, the whole zoo smelled bad, but it smelled like rotten food and poop and dirty animals.  But most of the animals were exactly what you would see at Woodland Park only there were so many more.  The Orang was the most fun.  There was a male who was sitting at the back with his back to us the whole time and every once in a while would peek over to see what was going on.  But the female, who looked pretty young, was playing with us the whole time.  Putting on a great show.  They had a big climbing tree and these 2 buckets at the bottom.  This little monkey was climbing the ropes and swinging into the buckets and ended up bringing them into the tree and throwing one away and sitting up in the tree inside the other bucket.  She was so cute.  We all took a lot of pictures of her but no one thought to take a video of the show.

We basically conducted our very own walking tour of Amsterdam.  It is basically a big U and it is really easy to get lost, but at the same time it was easy to find your way back to something your recognize.  We walked MILES  I swear, my body still hurts but it was so worth it because there was so many cool things to look at that you didnt realize how far you walked until you sat down.  All in all it was a really fun trip and I love Amsterdam, and would definitely go back again, there is so much that we didnt do there.  It was the biggest relief when we were flying back into London instead of Arizona.  Even though we had to take the tram to the train to the airplane to the train to the tube to the bus....before we got back to our place. It was an great adventure!!

Peace 

MalMil

The GLOBE

We went to the Globe Theatre today. The tour guide made fun of my lack of an umbrella...but when he asked me where I was from and I told him Seattle, he said "oh, I understand you actually like this kind of weather." YUUP!! i am loving it!

The theatre was built to be as similar as possible to the original (or the 2nd one, because the 1st burnt down due to a special effects malfunction involving a cannon). There was still no celeing to keep the weather out, all open. They still put on plays when it is raining, the stage a covered a little and most of the sudience also. There is no roof so the light can come in, since there is no stage lighting at all. It was really cool. They were settnig up for a play ans there were these girls whos job was to sweep the water off the front of the stage. very interesting.

after that we took the tube back to school and went to class after a quick bite to eat. Happiness class, we basically talk about being happy, and what really makes people happy. Its a fun class and also the biggest class. No real plans for this afternoon, its been raining so a lot of people wasnt to go back and get warm before we do anything. Also trying to get ready for amsterdam. We are going to share bags and bring the absolute minimum in case we have to share a hostel room with a stranger for some reason, and to get through everything quicker. Not excited for another plane tomorrow though, ugh. At least its only and hour!

Peace
MalMil

Lunch in the park

We had a great weekend spending most of it eating baguettes  in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens or roaming the streets of Kensington.  The parks here are amazing...Seattle times 10000.  So big and pretty.  The weather has been so beautiful, everyone goes to the park and sits in the grass and just eats lunch.  There were mad amounts of people at Kensington Gardens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The thing that really surprises me, and that I LOVE to death, is all of the loose dogs romping around.  The people here just let their dog off the leash and they run around the park and play with kids and other dogs.  They dont have a care in the world and their owners dont even watch the, they dont worry at all.  Prada would so love this place.  I just want to live here and get a dog and be a nanny and play with these really cute kids with british accents in the park all day long!  There was a little boy, maybe 3 or 4 years old, he was telling us jokes and collecting trash and filling all of the bottles with mud, he was having the best day of his life, i swear.  So cute.

We still have not been to any museums yet but we plan to go after classes from not on because all of the museums in the UK are free.  I could believe it.  Hopefully we can make it to the zoo or the aquarium also, because we all want to go.  

We have been waling everywhere in this really nice neighborhood and its really funny because they dont have street garbage cans here,  they leave their trash bags on the sides of the streets and the garbage men pick it up every couple of days.  People who walk their dog pick up the poop on a bag but then leave it on the street.  Its so weird to see, especially in Kensington which is soooo fancy and nice.

We saw our first play tonight.  It was a straight play called "woman in black" about a ghost.  It got really creepy/scary at the end.  It was about a woman who had died and a guy had to go look through all of the papers in her haunted house.  The ghost was her sister who was wanting her son back, who had also died...it was confusing.  But basically at the end we found out that when a person saw the ghost (the woman in black) a child dies, because her child died.  So the story was about the guy who went to the house and he saw her and his son died, he wanted to do a play about his story and the guy who was helping him saw the woman and it ended...so we assume that his son also dies.  It was crazy!  Some people fell asleep because they said there was no music to keep them entertained (Olivia, haha) I love that stuff though so I liked it but it was a little scary.  Ghost stories scare me. ahhh.

We finally got rain for the 1st time this morning, I walked to class at 8:40am and it was raining.  it felt so good.  It was like Seattle summer rain, a little warmer outside and it wasnt pouring rain, it was good rain...not like Arizona.  It smelled so good walking in the rain.  I loved it.  I was the only one without an umbrella too.  It was funny.

Going to the Globe theatre tomorrow morning early.  We are going to learn about shakespeare and how he started and everything, so excited but need my sleep, up at 8am!!  Hopefully after class we will go to a museum!

Peace 

MalMil

Nightlife in London town

This weekend is our long weekend because Monday is a holiday.  We have been going out to some pubs and clubs in the area.  Being very adventurous and taking the tube out and the bus home.  So far we have not been lost completely.  People here are very helpful if you ask for directions and they are friendly when you strike up a conversation for the most part.  We went to a club called Sketch and that it was.  It was very cool, almost gothic style inside and the bathrooms were these egg pods that talked to you when you shut the door.  The art work was also strange there was a statue of 2 greyhounds humping in the hallway and a colorful porch swing.  There was also a resturaunt attached.  The place was really cool but definitely Sketch, they names it right.  Then we went to a club called Strawberry Moons, it was a dance club right down the street from Ice Bar, where we want to go too.  The clubs here are nice but pretty pricey.  Around 8 pounds which is about $12 per drink.  Crazy expensive, but good music and we had a lot of fun.

We are going to amsterdam next weekend so we are helping some other people on our trip book the same flight as us tomorrow.  A big group of us are going it will be so much fun,  I am also looking into going to Liverpool (duh) on our last weekend in London or maybe even when we get to Scottland, not sure yet.  I am so so so excited for that! (yay beatles).  After all that we are going to a pub that a local recommended to watch a football match that is going to be huge here, so we are going early to get good seats to watch it on TV.  Its going to be so much fun real football in England, even though its on TV.

Peace 

MalMil

finally a working computer

I got my computer up and running finally!!  The computer lab (and all of school) is about a 20 minute walk from our dorms so its been hard to get to a computer for the past couple of days. 

So the tour that we took with Nigel was really great.  We went all over London through the different districts and over the (new) London Bridge and Tower Bridge.  Saw the London Eye, West Minster Abbey, a bunch of really old church towers and buildings that had been bombed in WWII, it was amazing.  We went to Buckingham Palace and the Queen was in residence so we saw her flag flying.  The guards were marching back and forth in front, it was Beautiful.  THere are big green parks all over London, it reminds me a lot of a combination of Seattle and a mini New York City.  

I have my own bed room in the dorms here in London.  Its pretty nice but at the same time I wish I was in the corner that everyone else is in except for me!!  But Ill make new friends in my corner I guess!  

I am already having such a great time and Ive only been here for 3 days.  I already decided that I am going to live here.  But I think once I get to Ireland that I will love it even more than England if thats possible!!  I for sure need to live over here though.  It is amazing!  I am so glad I got to come on this trip and Im actually getting college credit for it!!

Peace 

MalMil

I made it!

So after a couple glasses of (FREE) wine, and a tylenol PM I slept on the 10 hour fight for...a good 3 hours. SOOOOOOO tired. I dont remember the orientation because I was falling asleep! went to bed at around 7 and woke up at 4am! my body is soooo sonfused.

I had my 1st class today, we got lost trying to find the building but we finally got there only a half an hour late. The class is going to be interesting. we then went and ate pizza and took a bus tour with our tour guide Nigel. He was really fun. London in so pretty! I decided I am going to live here already. the weather is like home so I already love it!!!!!!!!!!!

I need to go get a beer and some fish and chips!#

Peace
MalMil

airport time

So Olivia, Jew, Amy, Victoria and I have been sitting in the airport for a couple hours and we are ready to get on this plane!!!!!!! ahhhhhh. 11 hours from now we will be in London and I am ready!!!!!

AAHHHH

bored.......

Peace
MalMil

...and the adventure starts

I guess its about time for me to start using this blog thing.  Ive only had it for a good 5 months without posting anything...go me!!!

Michelle gave this idea to me because she started a blog for her trip to Africa.  I thought I would do the same thing for my trip to London, Dublin and Edinburgh...secretly, deep down inside I just wanted to be one of those people who blogged...yes I want to be a blogger.  Ms. Lauren Salgado convinced me that I could do it too (she is a really good blogger) so I am now admitting my dreams to all of you (thanks Lauren).

But really before I start with my trip, since I dont leave for another 4 days or so, I am going to update everyone on my life! If you didnt know that I have been in AZ for the past 3 years than you probably dont know me and therefor should not be reading my blog...but Ill let it slide, at least you will be entertained.  I finally moved out of the dorms/sorority and got an apartment with my big sis/bff Asia Viloria.  We are pretty much the same person only she is from so cal and Im from the Emerald City (sam dif).  I love this girl, we click!  BUT, she is too smart for me, because she is graduating on time (which is now) and she is moving back to so cal this summer.  I am going to her graduation tomorrow morning with her entire family and watching her get her diploma and leave me!  Obviously I am a little upset about this, I thought life was supposed to be like peter pan, never grow up.  Asia grew up! dang it.  

This would be a little bit more upsetting for me if I was not going to be living with another so cal twin (that makes us triplets...almost) Lauren Kira Salgado!  Yes Lauren is my future roommate, and even though it wont be the same without Asia, Lauren is pretty much the same person.  We are also going to devise a plan to kidnap Asia and bring her back to AZ where she belongs...until we are done here of corse.  No one really wants to live in Arizona.

I am leaving on Monday for London.  I am so not prepared for that 10 hour flight, oh man.  I dont do so well on planes.  Good thing I know 5 other people on my flight!! I also am not prepared for packing, I might have to convince my mom and mimi to take me shopping when they get here tomorrow :)  I am really excited to go on my trip though.  There is going to be so much to do and see.  I have never really been out of the country, unless Canada counts.  Plus I will already be used to the weather because its almost the same as Seattle.  Im ready to get out of this 100 degree weather.  I cant stand it anymore.  

I will be bringing my laptop and will have access to the internet everywhere I go, so believe me I will be updating you every 5 minutes or so.  I am really excited for this trip, and I get college credit for it so why not!!!  I am sad that I have to miss Hattie's graduation, I wish I could be there, and dont worry Seattle I will be back for a bit when I am done traveling!  Promise to read my blog because I promise to write it!

peace,

Mal Mil