well two months after ending classes, i am officially done my junior year! finally no more studying for exams! i still think it's odd that my classes ended the last week of march, and yet i had to wait until june to take the exams. whilst in the weeks of studying we managed to go out to a couple of the clubs (elements & sugarhouse) for some drinks and dancing. and of course, we raided cal's blockbuster film collection to help us procrastinate from our revision :) when the sun would pop out kris & i played tennis, but the weather has still been pretty chilly considering that it's nearing summer (in the upper 50s). however, last friday it was actually in the 70s and we went to Morecambe Bay which is only a 20 minute bus ride from Lancaster. it was nice to be in a bathing suit and soaking up the sun! but the place was anything but a beach, i'd call it a cove. when we arrived it was high tide and boats speckled the shoreline, with fells in the background (beautiful scenery!) but before we knew it the tide was going out and eventually the water was completely gone! it was wet sand from us to the far side of where the water used to be...it was definitely wild! you could probably walk from one coast and across to the other, except we've heard it's like quick sand out there. anyway, we managed to get some silly tanlines while we were there. (oh tanlines, how i've missed you).
last night was the last time that kristen and i would see murphy and jobi (they leave this weekend, and we start our 20 day Eurotrip today!...actually it's already begun--we're in Leeds!). so we decided to have one last dinner date and ended up having a lovely chinese picnic on a bench table outside. it hasn't hit me that i won't be seeing them any time soon. i don't think it will until i'm back in the States myself. we then decided to go out last night (to Revs [revolutions]) which i'd never been to before and we had so much fun. we started off doing karaoke (think moulin rouge, ain't no mountain high enough, journey) and i'm happy to say i can cross that off my bucket list!--karaoke in a british club. we then went upstairs to the dance floor and literally were there until they kicked us out.
so now it's time to start the rest of our Europe adventures. we've decided to couch surf (www.couchsurfing.org) in all of our destinations! it was a process trying to find hosts, but i can happily say that we're surfing in all but one city. i can't wait to see what it has in store for us. printing out all of our boarding passes and tix was the next hassle though. kristen and i were making sure we had everything when we realized that we were missing our amsterdam-copenhagen flight information. we realized that we had jake purchase the tix (since our american credit cards wouldn't work) and had never received a confirmation number or email, and my account said we had no reservations! i'll admit i was beginning to panic. but thankfully we called the airlines and got everything sorted. i think i would have cried if they told us that we never booked anything.
and now after missing our first train in Lancaster by a mere 30-odd seconds, and nearly missing our second train in Leeds, we have made it safely to our first CS hosts! then off to Rome we fly tomorrow! :) i don't think i could be anymore stoked. 4 trains, 5 planes, 7 countries, and 20 days crammed into 1 backpack. here i come!
odd experience of the day: we met a mother who asked us if the UK was part of Europe. um. weird.
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