Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Williamsburg, VA

A few weeks ago in June we went to Williamsburg VA with or friends the Sampsons. We stumbled upon a deal on groupon.com for a two night stay down there. We had a great time, as for most of us this was or first time down there. Car bingo was a big hit being that is was a 4 hour car ride. The placed we stayed at was surprisingly nice. The first night when went down to Yorktown and eat kind of on the water there. The next day we spent the whole day at busch gardens. It was all of our first time there. Let me say, I loved it and I hate parks ! There was really something for everyone. What I remember the most was the food and the prices. Everything was fair priced, unlike most parks. I think we got lucky because it rained in the morning so not many people where there. The lines were really fast to get through.
On our way home the next day we made some pit stops. First to a winery and then to the luary caverns. The wine was great( we bought a few bottles of red. The caverns made me wish I drank more. It was really tight down there. All in all it was a great little trip.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

We went to see some fish

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Home Sweet Home

Well i made it home alright ! the flight was good and the layover in Frankfurt was no big deal ! Both Aud and I came home to see our parents waiting for us, and i got a little surpise! my boyfriend came with my parents ! its been almost a week since we left Greece and boy do we both miss it. it really makes our everyday lives seem so boring. i'm still jet lagged, i get really tired around 3ish and i want to sleep , but i don't. Aud and i are already planning our next trip, hopping maybe next summer and maybe our boyfriends will be tagging along with us. I posted more pictures up and i got a shutterfly account, where all of the pictures will be at. the webshots site i only choose some picture to go on that one while i was there. once i'm done loading them all up i'll post the site .once i post the site that should be my last post for a while, as i'm keeping this blog only for traveling. I will however start a college life blog. i will make sure to give your all the address for that one as soon as I can.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

just one more day :(

well guys this will be the last post that i will be posting in Europe for a while. we leave tomorrow at 2 am for our 6 am flight to frankfurt and then home to DC :) Aud and i are really tired ! we are just dragging our feet at this point ready to come home. its been great but athens is really nothing speical . we had our tour today of it and it was only about 3 hours long and then we had the rest of the day to ourselfs. which all we did was get last minute gifts for everyone, which we ended up buys alot of things for everyone all around in the end of this whole thing, i think between aud and i we have bought at least 15 tshirts. well so you guys know we might long a bit different ( dont worry no tat's or anything ) but aud and i left really really whie and now we are really really tan, we really do look like we have just traveled the world for the past 18 days , plus we might smell like it too :) we were realyl glad that we got to do this with eachother, we have become greater friends because of it ! so pray for a safe return and i'll update once i'm home , for the rest of the family who won't get to see the pictures right away , once i get home i plan on adding the rest of my photos ! see ya and love you all

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

we made it to Athens

alright guys we made it to Athens ! and its a dump ! woot woot . hehe well our hotel room is great ! our beds not so much. i'm really getting home sick but i think thats manly because im sick and crampy. i miss my family, my boyfriend, and my cat ! we arnt doing to much tonight , just eatting dinner and then going out onto a walk around athens. tomorrow we have the tours of athens and then we are going to try and get to bed early tomorrow night. we have to get up and be out by 3 ! boo. well we are going to head back to the hotel and then go out

Ruins today and Athens

well i just hoped on really fast before we leave for the ruins, its about 10 am here and we leave in about 30 min's for the ruins here in Dehpi and then we will be traveling by bus to Athens , where we will be for the next two days ( today and tomorrow ) we have to get up by 2 am so we are at the airport by 4 since our flight is at 6am , i really hope to sleep most of the flight, even though its really hard for me to sleep on planes i think i will be really tired from just everything in general. also i'm going to try harder then normal because i need to stay up on thursday till at least 9pm ( which will be 4 am here ) so i can tackle this jet lag really fast. ok well this is jsut a short update i hope to have more later tonight if i can find a internet spot. greece is pricey when it comes to internet, 2 euro for 30 mins , boo . love you

Ruins today and Athens

well i just hoped on really fast before we leave for the ruins, its about 10 am here and we leave in about 30 min's for the ruins here in Dehpi and then we will be traveling by bus to Athens , where we will be for the next two days ( today and tomorrow ) we have to get up by 2 am so we are at the airport by 4 since our flight is at 6am , i really hope to sleep most of the flight, even though its really hard for me to sleep on planes i think i will be really tired from just everything in general. also i'm going to try harder then normal because i need to stay up on thursday till at least 9pm ( which will be 4 am here ) so i can tackle this jet lag really fast. ok well this is jsut a short update i hope to have more later tonight if i can find a internet spot. greece is pricey when it comes to internet, 2 euro for 30 mins , boo . love you

Monday, June 12, 2006

In greece !

well Aud and i have made it to greece in fine condiction ! we took an over night boat from italy over. let me start back from my last post though from what we have done. we were in Rome which was a mess as you can tell from my last post. it was fun dont get me wrong just alot of things were personally frusrating me because of the internet places and not being able to eat . But all of that is over now. From Rome we left for Naples, were we stayed and went to the beach near there. the beach was just one of the most amazing little places ever. it really seems like the places that are off the beaten track are really the best. i got a bunch of little gift from the area. in that area Lemons are a huge thing. They grow a ton of lemons all over the place, which we got to see a ton of lemon trees. there this lemon drink ( alcholoic drink ) which personal i didn't think was all that great. but the shops in that area where really cute all up and down these paths and such because it was all on a moutian side , like most things are around here. the beach was made of black sand because we were on a volcano. about 8 of us rented boats and went out on a boat, which was alot of fun , it was an amazing veiw from the sea out looking to the moutains. the hotel we stayed in was really an upgrade from Rome ! it was really nice indeed, its a shame we only got to stay there for a day. After that we woke up early for the boat , which left at 2 but we had a 5 hours drive ahead of us. the baot ride was alright. at first i was getting seasick, i think thats because i've never been on a baot/ ship that size and it was a new feeling. Aud and i just hung out on the deck most of the time because our cabin was uber small and smelled of raw sewage. we only got to sleep for a small time because the boat got to greece at 5. so then off to Dephi we went and now we are here. we were going to have another beach day today but there isn't any sun and its kinda rainy. but its sooo beautiful. there moutains all over the place ! its super cute. tomorrow we have a tour of dehpi and then leave for athens. were we end our trip there and i fly home thursday ! its ending so fast ! well i must be off see ya

Friday, June 09, 2006

in rome

im going to write a small amount at this point as im really upset and down right pissed off at this computer, i wrote one huge post and lost it just to rewrite and lose it again i dont have the time to write all that i wrote on it before. i wish that i could just smash this computer outside onto a car. really . sorry for all the anger but its so upsetting. in Rome , where it is very dirty and nasty. all the trash is in the road and people just throw things out on to the grass and walk away with out caring. yesterday we got to see everything in the vactian city ! the sistine chapel was disppointing because it is alot smaller then they really make it out to be. but st peters is really amazing huge and it is really really just breathtaken in size. it uses all the space inside , so its filled with so much art and such. there was a wedding going on as well at the time so that was cool. we saw the peità as well which was really hard to get up to and see, worst then mona lisa. then we took a walk around as just touched base with the coloseum, archs, spanish steps, captial hill, and the roman forums. its really great to go there to old ruins and hear all the storys about them in their time. today aud and i got an early start this morning and took the tram and subway intocentral rome. we went hunting for a altar piece called the estacy of st. theresain a chapel we tracked down, then we were off to see the breathtaking trevifountain ( i skipped out on seeing it last night so aud insisted that she let drag me there to see it, it's exquisite!!), then we explored the pantheon andfound another chapel adorned by dynamic carravagio paintings. after taking abreak for lunch we met up with the rest of our group for a tour through the coloseum and the forum ruins. we roamed around a bit after splitting off from them to get gellati and nab a few souveniers. we leave for pompeii at 7 tomorrow morning but will be there for only a few hours. my sunburn is all gone on my feet and my chest pelled off today. the sheet of skin that peeled off was so large that aud could have drawn on it , really mom you would have loved it . also im running out of monday so if anyone wants to donate.... just kidding sorry its so short iàm just running out of time and im just mad.love you all and i miss you