Sunday, May 22, 2011

From London to MADRID:)

I just returned from an incredible adventure in Madrid!

 Ryan Air is Super Cheep. Apparently it is because the pilots are not licensed. I dont know if that is true. Although the landing on the flight home, was super scary. I honestly thought we crashed and I was about to die. Luckily that was not the case;)
Megan, Ellen, and Katie!

This is a bad picture, but all the streets are like this in Madrid. its so cool!


This is a library in Madrid. Crazy huh? Its super cool inside!

RIKKIIII and I!
 Wednesday tuned out to be National Museum Day, so all the museums were FREE! This is at the Reina Sofia. Inside was tons of Picasso, and Dali. Dali is one of my favorites. Unfortunately I did not realize how sexual most of his work is until about 5 minutes ago. Ha, yep thats me. Raised in Utah! 




 So we are walking to the architecture museum and it starts down poring! I lived in Seattle for 8 years, and I never saw rain like this. It was almost painful, and impossible to see anything.Luckily it only lasted a couple of minutes, but we still got drenched. haha, What a great day.
 Me and my Faves person in the whole world!!! Soaking wet!

 Food was an adventure in an of itself in Spain. I was super brave though! This particular sandwich doesnt look to daring, but when I get more photo's I will put those up!
 Me and the girls just eating Gelato! SOOOO GOOD

 This is a little town outside Madrid where Rikki lives. its called Alcala. It was the town where Cervantes grew up. Cervantes wrote Donki Hote. So that was just fabulous.

This was probably the best part of the whole trip. Churros with Rikki Spaniard Style.

Unfortunately after this point in time, my camera fell in a toilet. The rest of the Trip was incredible. We were a part of this huge protest, that was suppose to really make history in Spain. Our tour guide told us this protest was suppose to create a spiral effect, and cause protests in Paris, London, and Rome. It was crazy to be a part of. Another cool thing that happened was a man sneaking us into a famous Flamanco Show. It was absolutely Stunning. I will tell more about it when I get pictures from other people.
Well, thats it for tonight!

Cheerio 


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Just Loving Living in London

Its been a while sense i have posted. It has been brilliantly busy. This week we saw 4 plays, did lots of sight seeing, and of course lots of shopping. 

I thought Little Eagles was a fabulous performance. The acting, stage, and sound effects were very believable. Within the first five minutes the show had my emotions and kept them until hours after the performance had finished. It was culturing to see an opposing country’s ( the Russians) opinion of the war and of getting into space. I will never look at the war, or getting into space the same way. The actor who played Seirge was incredible. The way he displayed the maturing character’s feelings and ambitions was extremely empowering. I left the theatre wanting to live a life of pursuing my ambitions.

The Kews 
This was the Carriage that Will and Kate left in. 







 The GLOBE!!!! I have seen two shows there. Both were super hard to sit through on the uncomfortable benches. But it was pretty awesome seeing Hamlet there! Although, the performance was kind of terrible. It was more of a comedy than a tragedy. My best way of describing it was. Hey Hamlet the hobbit, put your Man pants on! --dual meaning intended.

They used to call the groundlings Penny Stinkers because they would fit 1000 people into the crowd, and once they were in there it was impossible to get out, so you had to go to the bathroom right there and then.



Ill let you think about this one....



We found Drury Lane!




We found the Muffin Man on Drury Lane. His name is Tan. and he is Middle Eastern. He also sells more than just miffins.




On Tuesday we went on a Temple Trip. It was so cool. We rode a train for an hour, than hopped in cabs. I have now experienced the scariest ride of my life. People in London drive so fast on such tiny roads! It also doesn't help that we are on the wrong side of the road the whole time! Some how we arrived at the temple safely. We did baptisms for the dead, and then got food in the cafeteria. Lets just say they had the best pastries and ice cream I have tasted in my whole entire life.





Meg and I got some awesome pizza before we saw Lion King!


Lion King! The costumes and stage was absolutely unbelievable. I have never seen anything so cool!


On our way home from Lion King, we got gelato, I got my first cone and asked if they took cards, and he said only if you spend 10 pounds. So.... We got 5 Cones! It was great!

Yesterday we took a day trip to the beach at Brighton. It was So much fun, I got so sunburned though. We took a nap on the beach, and ate the classic Fish and Chips.

 Katie and I
 Katie and I

 Where's Waldo Girls.
Ellen and I





Katie, Ellen, Katie, and I chillen at Brighton beach. So relaxing!

Today Megan and I went to Portobelo Road and got Crepes!

Its kind of sad that I have been in London for three weeks, and this is my first Crepe.

Portobelo road!


These are the things they sell on Portobelo Road



I dont even know what this was, but it smelled so good.




 The Peter Pan Statue!

 Gelato is always amazing.

This is Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air! We walked right past him

So guess what? I really love apples now. I eat one every day. I am sad I have missed out on them my entire life.






 This is right out my window.
 These are the views on top of the roof out side of my Window. Its breath taking when the sun is setting








Tower of London!





 My Favorite Picture for Last. Lets just say Henry VIII definitely knew how to put his man pants on...
 

Safe Journey! ~ Cheers