Wednesday, February 17, 2010

mini update =)

Since I have been back from Dublin I have been doing a lot of work and classes, since I had to work last Friday (due to missing work on Monday) my roommates and I were unable to have a "Friday adventure", as we have been trying to do every week, but we did try to make up for it by deciding to try one on Sunday instead.
The city has started to become somewhat of a zoo recently because it is the country's mid term break. (like Feb. vacation for the States) Well that means that the city is FULL of people who dont usually come here during the week and weekend. So the tube and tourist attractions have been a little too crazy for our taste, but we tried to still do an "adventure" anyways, We set out for the Tower of London Sunday morning, but found the lines out of the door and around the corner, so we settled on a smaller tour of Tower Bridge. It was actually really cool, and they had a lot of information about bridges in general that I know some of my engineer friends would love (cough cough). After that my roommate Jen and I wanted to go to the camera stores we saw a few days ago when we went to see Valentines Day (the new movie with a lot of big name actors in it, it was cute). My camera broke in Ireland (may have forgotten to mention that before) so I was looking for a new one and her camera broke the first week here because her water bottle cap cam off in her water proof purse (which basically just made everything she owned, including her i pod, camera, and phone swim in a pool). I found a really great one, Samsung with dual screens. It was a little pricey but I got a free 8gb memory card a case and a US plug adapter thrown into the deal, since my dad has taught me how to bargain so well. Ended up costing me around 380 us dollars (eek). But I wanted to make sure I had one for my spring break around Europe and I figured spending an extra 50-75 from what I would have spent at home is worth to have it now.
Well two days before this (sorry for the mix in chronological order) we had our free tickets on the London Eye (that big ferris wheel) and it was amazing. We had to have our tickets moved to night because we all had to work, but it was amazing anyways. I still would like to go on again during the day though, because I want to see if I can actually pic out where things are.
Well thats its for now...small update. Missing everyone!! CHEERS

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