top ten simple sounds:

[1] flip flops hitting bottoms of feet
[2] clanking of make-up being thrown back in my make-up bag
[3] quite hum of fans
[4] james laughing
[5] lighting of a gas stove
[6] light rain
[7] clicking of keyboards
[8] biting into apples
[9] opening of pop cans
[10] water/steam in a hot iron

night people:

i'm returning to a night-work schedule after enjoying many months of daylight. i feel like i can get more done when i am up early in the day, but i can definately see my friends more when we get together late at night. it'll be much needed catch-up time, in my opinion.
last night james and i met up with mike and tessa at india garden. oh man, it was tasty. i haven't been there in over a month - maybe longer. after that mike brought an anime called Spirited Away to our house to enjoy. James enjoyed sleep and i asked many questions. i liked it a lot, but was confused a little in the middle. it was nice to watch something that was a fun adventure.

Drinks at Six...

Dial M for Murder

last night we all headed to Em and Jay's, they did the first read through of the script, i think it will turn out really well. i might have a part... the party extra. i think i have what it takes to go big time, hopefully i can get in a good word to the director. a few days ago james and i showed steve and his friends buffalo 66. i forgot how great that movie was. if you haven't seen it - you better. what else? nothing really seems exciting since we got back, i have had 2 weeks of classes so far, linguistics is interesting. i'm not sure if it is what i expected, it seems realitively easy - but then again this is just an intro. i'm really hungry and heading out with the chicas from work! mmmm vanilla bean cheesecake i love you and i am coming to eat you!

Eurotrip

the following are pictures from our Eurotrip. they are a little bit extensive, but we had a good time trying to photo journal everything we did. we spent a total of 2 weeks over there and traveled by plane, train, taxi, bus and metro. it was a blast!

London, England

Victoria Station

hah, they're real cops

best ever

Buckingham Palace

gates of Buckingham

statue dedicated to Queen Victoria

St. James Park

James and Big Ben hanging out

Big Ben and Parliment

Tower of London

Tower Bridge

Detail on Westminister Abbey

Westminister Abbey - i'm actually in this picture

slough.

Cambridge, England

bus ride from Oxford to Cambridge

St John's College

inside St John's cathedral

outside of King's College

King's College courtyard

Bruxells (Brussels), Belgium

national Palace in Bruxells

we need more statues like this

National Basilica of Belgium

James and I on the steps of the Basilica

view from inside

Keukenhof, Netherlands

this was actually in Leiden, Netherlands

brilliant.

best.

hedge maze.

amazing.

pretty.

tons of bikes.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam Central train station

Köln (Cologne), Germany

the Dom took over 600 years to build

the original arcitecture blueprint was followed from start to finish

the best thing we saw possibly

inside the Dom, styling extremely gothic. the cathedral of learning looks like they ripped this place off

the Dom was erected to be the housing place of the Gifts of the Three Magi - which are apparently in this gold case on display.

some of the stained glass

our Punto we rented in Colonge

a smart towing the world.