Roma

Rome

Ok...well I am finally caught up to the present. This next slide show is pictures from me and Kathryn's trip to Rome. It was really cool, really hot, and kind of dirty. I will say that I am glad I got to go. It is cool thinking about how I have seen and walked through the Coliseum, the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, and thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain. I have also eaten true Italian Pizza and gelato. I wont say I enjoyed it as much as Paris, but hey I went to Rome. It was extremely hot. I think it was about 50 when we left London and 90 when we got to Rome. So it was definitely a shock to our systems. We also had gottne only a couple of hours of sleep the day before so that didnt help either. If you go to Rome, dress for hot weather and get plenty of sleep. Oh yeah and prepare to buy lots of water bottles. I think we probably bought at least 20 for two days. The hostel we stayed in was great though. Only 4 blocks from the main train/bus station. It was really nice, as hostels go, and not too expensive. As much as it may sound like Rome wasnt my favorite place ever, dont let this disuade anyone from going one day. It is Rome and everyone wants to see the history there. It is all over the place and that was cool.

Tea and The Eye

Late Update #4

So as you can see from the pictures Kathryn was able to drag me into some tea at Harrods. Actually it was a lot of fun and the food and tea was great. I would recomend it for any of you who are going to be in London for a few days. It is worth it and it is not too expensive for London. We also got to go on the eye later that night. Kathryn's group went to the eye and they had an extrea ticket which I got to use. It was a lot of fun and the rest of the night we had a lot of fun walking around the city.

Coleford Trip #2

Late Update #3

The weekend after Paris, Kathryn and I went back to Coleford. I was really looking forward to getting to see my friends again, and I couldnt wait for Kathryn to get to meet them too. It was a great weekend. We took a train out of London on Saturday morning and met up with Andy and Maria and the kids in Warwick. There is a huge castle there, and so we spent the day exploring that. It was a ton of fun and had a lot of cool stuff to see. We then went to Maria's dads house for dinner where we ate a wonderful meal cooked by her stepmom that was made complete by some awesome Baked Alaska. On Sunday we went to church with the family and then had a feast at there house afterwards. My good friends Simon and Katy and there two kids Issac and Imogen, also came over. Like I said we had a huge feast that was awesome. At the end of it, Kathryn was surprised with a birthday cake to celebrate her 20th birthday. It brought back found memories of celebrating my 18th birthday there. It was a lot of fun. Then to burn some of that food off, we took a nice walk in the forest. Even though the weather wasnt the best, it was still beautiful. It is always great to get to go to Coleford, and I hope that I will be back sooner than later. It is hard to stay away when you have such good friend there.

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