City Life is a Big Poo.

Sometimes city-life really ticks me off. Mainly when I’m walking down a ridiculously crowded street like Oxford Street. I’m fine for a little while thinking: be calm, think 2 steps ahead and around these people, it’s OK. Then I start the verbal assaults in my head and eventually I’m just shoving pass people with force and wanting to scream.

It just gets so frustrating when you know your destination and want to get there, but there are all of these idiotic people walking around and then stopping and then walking and then looking around like a bunch dumb cows.

I know, I know. Take the less crowded streets or use the tube and bus. In London? Yeah right. The less crowded streets take just as long because they are so windy, that you’ll end up further away then you thought. Sometimes they just stop and then you’ll have to go back the other way anyhow. And the tube? Just as crowded and hot and expensive. The bus? So slow I could crawl faster.

ARGH.

Maybe I just need to control my anger a bit better. Maybe I should just stay off the streets.

Maybe I should just eat some ice cream and cheer the heck up. (Which is what Toby would tell me to do….smart boy.)

A bit of DC

In an attempt to get all of our holiday photos online, I've come to a coffeeshop down Finchley Road. It's called Tiki. Isn't bad, they do try to make it just coffee related, but it still doesn't have that cozy feel I'm after.

I picked up all of our film pictures today and then left the CDs at home, so those will have to go up later. Do we really have that many pictures? Yes, yes we do. We went to a lot of places you know!


I thought I could put up a few pictures every now and then, but I don't plan to do them in any order. Let's just call this trip highlights.

And this is one of my favorites. While DC wasn't the beautiful city I imagined it to be, the Lincoln Memorial definately lived up to my expectations. It's huge and calm and quiet (despite the kiddies running around). I wish we had had the chance to see it at night, but our time was limited and the weather was hot and I'm sure we were crabby. Our mini tourguide, Lindsey, mentioned a little American Sign Language history, though I'm sorry to say i can't remember the whole story. What I do remember is that it is said that either the builder or the designer of the memorial was deaf and so, in order to recognize the Deaf community, Lincoln is signing the letters A and L.

Our Grand Adventure

The grand adventure is complete. We did, indeed, do America.

3, 702 miles
$519 in gas (actually, thought we did well with that)
14 states and 2 countries (we spent a night in Canada)

Somehow, we managed to do everything on our list and see nearly all of the people that are important to us.

Rather than drop a bucketload of photos on you, I’ll put a few up every week (or try to…) and share some stories. I haven’t got my film developed yet, so more photos will follow, but if you want to take a look at them all (because you are very bored and need distraction) go to…www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkinspice.... sorry, you'll have to cut and paste that it!


Thanks to all of you (especially Britni, Lindsey, Megan, and my mom) for making our trip so freaking FANtastic!!

Love, abs and toby