Cricket’s Hide-a-Hole

October 25, 2010

Almost Home

Filed under: Uncategorized — croakingcricket @ 6:33 am

It seems like forever ago that i was boarding a plane at Sea-Tac going towards the unknown Europe.  At the time I thought i would be able to update my blog in Europe as long as we had Wi-fi and allowing that Breezie would let me use her computer. Sadly, Breezie’s computer had a little hiccup, stopped charging and with tracking down of various Mac people in London, found that her batter just stopped working. :( Sad for her

In general, my experience was awesome. From London, Paris, Dublin and Edinburgh, there’s been so much that I’ve seen and gotten to experience. And there was also the crazy parts. It comes from me and Breezie having this aversion to planning things ahead of time…We had our ticket coming to London and back and ONE night at a hotel in London. Literally that’s all we had. We’ve ridden planes, trains, taxis, double-decker buses, underground metro, ferries from the UK to Ireland and we even drove around a few days in Ireland. The only mode of transportation that we didn’t use was a horse-drawn carriage!

Since I’m currently on a computer in a small hotel in Iceland…I can’t even remember the name of the city, I can’t get my pictures up just yet, beyond the fact that a couple of days worth are stuck on Breezie’s computer. And after it stopped working I had to pick my pictures wisely. Haha. I’m excited to be coming home :) It’s wonderful to travel but then you run out of money and have to go make more to support future adventures!

When I get more time I’ll make up some posts about the countries I visited. There’s way too much that happened in each to make it all one post…and hopefully I don’t hit my head and forget it all from now til then…

October 10, 2010

Planes and trains

Filed under: Europe — croakingcricket @ 12:49 pm

Two planes and two complicated trains later…

Long flight but cool part was that every person had a tv monitor in front of them with access to free movies, tv shows and music. Awkward was a stewardess parking her cart beside me and sitting on me four times. Psht, no sleep whatsoever the whole flight but we arrived initially in Iceland to watch the sunrise over the vast horizon.

We had our hotel booked but no way to get there. Started off with an express train and then hopped around two other random trains/tubes. With 14 hours of flying time and no sleep, we were a LITTLE delirious and kept forgetting directions people would give us.

Even with all the special-ness, we found our hotel. And since then have grabbed food and wandered the streets in the waning light of day. Dinner was a baguette, laughing cow cheese (a little piece of home) and ham. I also gave in and stopped in a bakery to grab a Belgium chocolate muffin. That plus the Starbucks we found during our street wandering made the night a delicious one :)

October 9, 2010

Tsunami Warning Unheeded

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — croakingcricket @ 2:18 pm

Me and Breezie are sitting at the airport-waiting for our first flight to load. Of course I was packing right before leaving the house-and I think I have everything… passport-check. Coffee-check. Everything else-…sure :)

So far we only have a place to stay the first night (due to procrastination by me and Breezie) but I’m sure we’ll figure something out when we get there, haha. I’m truly hoping I don’t have to sit by a screaming baby/kid on the plane…oy, seven hours is too long…

Truthfully I’m equal parts nervous and excited but ready or not here we go!

 

 

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