London Day Two

Sae woke me up around ... tenish, took a shower, woke up kriz, then walk the block or so to the underground... where apparently nobody gives change. which is fine, just.. didn't want a SHITTON of 2 pound coins.
ah well-
catch a tube to the Natural History museum...

pictures

queue...
SECURITY CHECK

instead of actual questions about what may or may not be in my bag, the guy just asks "what kind of laptop is this?"
"uh.. Dell."
"I like Dell. But you can keep it"

pictures pictures, queue, queue....
ROCKS.

all the fucking rocks man.
penis rocks, asbestos, BASALT (my favorite rock, for some reason) rocks that look like they're gonna nom on us, visual effects (also about rocks) rocks that change color, rocks worth WAY TOO MUCH MONEY, and a crapload of Blue JOhn, which, as i understand it, is, pound for pound, more valuable than gold.

After the rocks, we queue for awhile to get into the dino exhibit....
gian tbones, ah...
long overpass, ANIMATRONIC DINO... rex, i guess, technically. krizzle took a picture of its ass just for the furries.
worked our way back through the exhibit and .. left.

tube to green park, starbucks (BUSY ARGH)...
park, palace.
The queen is (apparently) out on holiday so, naturally, her guard wasn't there (which is unfortunate but no big deal)

when kriz found out, he said "fuck the queen" REALLY loudly (he REALY wanted to see the guards in their dress clothes), and we both kind of shushed him, and he claimed he'd say it again, he didn't care, but always sort of half-whispered it after that ;3

ah.. after that we took the tube back to our hotel, shmoozed around for awhile...

Watched madagascar; then THE BEST.
GAME SHOW
EVER.
called
101 Ways to leave a Game Show.
and got WAY too involved in it.
fucks yes.

Edit: 11/3/2010
Pictures from Today

London Day One

Woke up... eightish, i think, shower, go back to bed-
sae comes in wakes us up a bit closer to noon/one (i think)
Watch the news,do some laundry....
Laundry is done.
Hang the laundry out to dry.
pack a bit to go to the train station (leaves for london from cardiff at 3:55)

IT IS RAINING. QUICK, BRING IN THE LAUNDRY.

RUN.
DE LAUNDRY THE LINE.
ARGH.

Finish packing (including some wet clothes)
borrow one of Sae's Hoodies because mine WILL NEVER DRY IN TIME (damn you sweatshirt material)

Get into the car.
leave.

ARGH CARDIFF WHY MUST YOU BE CONSTRUCTING AND TRAFFICKING

impossible to park in train station.
WE DO IT ANYWAY.
wait for train.
got to learn how to enter a proper platform, too, which was fun.

Long Train is Long

we're in compartment A, the "quiet" compartment.
Silence KILLS MY BRAIN.

cannot find DS.
ARGH

After things loosen up a bit, Kriz and I go back to the food compartment.

i find my DS (in my pocket, duhr)

we.. really like the Cafe lady. She's frikkin AWeSOME.
Five or so pounds later, we go back to our compartment with our foods.

including a MARS BAR. FUCK YES.
MARS BAR.
FFFf <3!

...

Mars bar is the same as a milky way D:
i am disapoint.

train train train to london....
Didn't take any pictures of the station because anyone who has ever seen any movie with london in it (harry potter, for instance) has seen the london station/london underground.
sorreh, kids :3

didn't see any sheep until we got out of Wales, i think.
O-o wtf. Wales is supposed to have the MOST SHEEP.

um... london station, crowded. purchase tickets. nobody gets pickpocketed.
Get into the underground, fall into a person sitting next to me because i suck at sitting down.
train train train train...

walk walk walk walk.

we got lost.
we took a left when getting to our travelodge when we should have just gone straight.
AMAZING.
Sae asks for directions, we check in-
we get ONE key card..... which is alright because.. it's not like we'll be seperating much.

but FUCK it's hot in here. we think we've found the AC but it doesn't appear to be cooling anything, soinstead we've got the window open as much as we're able and have otherwise stripped down as much as possible.

uhhh... hour or so later, FOOD.
mickey Ds two doors down to our left (or right).... Mickey Ds is still Mickey Ds. can't get an order right to save their lives ;3

Edit: 1/3/2010
Here are the pictures from today

I was Going to post Pictures

of the trip so far.
and do a semi-daily thing where i updated you all with pictures.
but it appears that i cannot get them off of mom's camera with anything i currently have on me. Will need to ask sae at some point if he's got a camera-style USB cord, or knows where there is one around the house or anythin-

I'd just take the memory card out and plug it into the computer, but um.
no right-sized slot for the sony card D<>>

we end up in a comic shop, during which the three of us have a combined nerd-gasm of some kind. this is worth mentioning just for the nerdgasm.

Then.. we walk for awhile, snap pictures of funny things (gay dragon on a cake, buff krizzle bitch, etc) and end up in the arcade, where we get to discover two things.
1: starbucks will give you free water
2: they do not like giving three people in a row free water (so kriz and i both tipped them a bit to make up for it)
3: people will pay ridiculous amounts of money for scarves.

mm, more walking. We stop at a small shop to rest for a bit, pick up some soda (fairly cheap, too, 1.70 or something like that for two personal bottle drinks)

ummmmmmm, then we head over to the museum to visit, turns out its closed mondays, but we didn't know that at the time, so we waited around a bit (and took a handful of pictures) before we left-
kriz stopped and snapped some shots of what i understand to be the City Hall, which is, btw, frikking BEAUTIUL.

ehm...
we catch a bus back to Sae's house and kriz takes a nap, sae and I both defect to our computers in our opposite rooms... time time time... kriz wakes up, he gets the computer, we see pictures from yesterdays furmeet, i go down to socialize with Sae's grandparents..... watch the news (which covers more of american than america does, to nobody's surprise) and go back up to visit kriz'n sae, dinner's served-
lasagna and salad. extremely delicious. NOM.
conversations, etc.

and that more or less brings us to now.

In jokes so far;
from yesterday:
SINK!
From today:
Cacaw~

edit: also, krizzle is tripping out about everything else about britain, but the only thing causing me any trouble or confusion so far is that (at least in sae's house, i imagine everywhere else, too) the light switches flick in the opposite direction they do in the states. I have to kind of stop and stare to process it every time i go to turn off the lights xD

edit:
here are the pictures.

also when i do the tag search they're totally not in order.
just so you know.

I Woke Up Today in London

well.. Heathrow, anyway.

And am now at saethwr's house in Cardiff~!

meant to post a journal when we got in to Chicago, but i couldn't connect to the internets there.
anyway, we got put into a holding pattern because Chicago apparently isn't used to rain... the airport was shut down for awhile, as i understand it.

Our plane to london was on time, though..
and... actually an awesome flight.
Boeing 767 (bigger than I've ever been on, personally)
that was half full at best.
so we had like six rows all to ourselves~ can you say SLEEP?!
very nice.
got two meals, both of them much better than we had expected-
first pancakes and fruit and some ham and eggs;
second one a pot pizza thing.
nomnom~

um.
getting through the border was... fun.
we'l just say fun.
suffice to say, the lady we went through thinks we're kind of stupid coming to visit an internet friend for three weeks, and it took an additional half hour to get in.

um.
baggage.. the claims were shut down (the airport was on its way out as well) and.... yeah.
got my bag after a moment of wtf...
couldnt find kriz's.
after a shitton of RAWRGH, went up to the desk to ask about it, and we kind of started to think it was lost or stolen, because we were trying to find it using kriz's name- then i realized (by looking at my bag) that the names were transposed- used the right name and found out that Alaska somehow failed to get his bag onto the American Airlines flight from seattle to chicago.... which confuses me because MY bag made it, and, as well, the flight was 45 minutes late. More than enough time to UNLOAD the last plane and get everything to the gate. ahw ell.

um.. stayed in a hotel in heathrow, woke up at like five am, ended up at the airport by eight ish, and .. like an hour trying to get krizzles bag, cant get them to cooperate, angst, angst, feet hurt.. um.
after MANY failures to meet us at the meeting point- krizzle decides to go try something else.
and, what do you know, Sunny (the guy who stayed late to help us locate the bag the night before, and who we both REALLY like) is just chillin out in the lobby with krizzles bag, and god forbid the airline could have told us that....

since we lost an hour or so, we couldn't go get breakfast on the way to Bristol for the Bristol fur meet; which is alright, since Sae made sure we had Welsh Cakes;
um.. a nap later and we both wake up to "Hey Jude" on Sae's ipod, which is somehow amazing. .. that that's the song that woke us up, since .. there were many louder songs on his playlist ;P

guys, it is fucking amazing how green this place is...
i'm so used to "Golden" california it's almost weird to see cows in a green field instead of a brown one.

anyway, bristol meet was DAMNED AMAZING, though kriz and sae both walk way faster than i have any ability to do (connective tissue thing.. my calves tighten up within seconds of extended stride/speed walking to keep up) and that was fairly painful, but worth it.
um.. starbucks, looking for waterguns, meet at the bandstand,start setting up for the barbeque, fill waterballoons, etc, etc, etc....
food, fun, waterfights...
water balloon catapult.
krizzle got DUNKED (via bucket over head) .... then over to a pub to hang for another hour or two or.. um.
i can;t keep track of time.

then... uh, kriz and I partook in a bit of liquor, in part because it's rare that we get to do so in public... a bit of cuddling, bodily harm (all in good fun) and eventually a game of Munchkin: Cthulu...
then the hour or so drive to Cardiff from bristol, which again involved a nap... get to Saes house and meet his Gran and Gramps~ and here we are now.

[edit] also, the name of the journal i was going to post in Chicago was "Landing on a runway in chicago." you know. if you were curious.

edit:
Here are the pictures from today:

We're Not Sleeping in Seattle

the next few journals will have names of similar cheesiness...

Anyway, we landed in Seattle an hour or so ago, and our connection to Chicago leaves in about 35 minutes-

kind of buzzed/excited/nervous/tired all that jazz...

first flight went well altogether
we were seated next to what i can only assume was a Navy lesbian.

which was awesome.

and I left my jacket in the terminal...
ran out to go get it and ran into a guy running in to deliver it.

-awesome-

b'yeah.

Got into Seattle and couldn't find our flight because i misread the flight board and the gate number isn't on our boarding passes D:
so we ended up leaving and walking way too much and having to go through security.
and then Wendy's.
and then MOAR WALKING.
semi running because we thought we were supposed to board at 11 instead of 11:45.

and then.
LUCK.
SUCCESS.

Anyway, time for waiting and then flying and then BATHROOM and then FOOD (probably) and then ACK WHERE IS OUR GATE and then WAITING ARGH.

Love you guys.

[edit: found out why the flight is late... Chicago has horrible weather and the plane was late getting out.]