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.

Summer Plays

Late Update #2

This slide show is going be of the other shows we have gotten the chance to see besides Wicked. Mary Poppins was awesome. I would definitely recomend it. The songs werent as good as Wicked but it was so much fun to go to. There was a lot of audience participation, and the cast looked like they were having a blast performing. Plus is was Mary Poppins in London. We also saw The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe Theater. It started off a bit slow, but by the end I was loving it. The acting was great and it was cool to just see a Shakespeare play in the rebuilt Globe. The most recent play we have seen was Fame. The dancing was awesome and the singing was pretty good. So I would say it was an ok show. But the coolest part of it all was that we got to take picture and meet some of the cast after the show. We saw where they were coming out of the theater at the end of the show and ran over to get pictures. They were all really nice especially this one actress from South Africa. She talked to Kathryn and I forever. She also was by far the best cast member and had an AMAZING voice. It has been really cool getting to go the theatre here. We are hoping to go to see The Sound of Music tomorrow night.

Anniversary and Paris

Late Update #1

Ok...so it has been a while since I last updated. So I am going to just start from where I left off. I wont put every picture I have in one slide show though. I will still go ahead and break them up like I would have if I had stayed up to date. Ok so these first ones are from the beginning of July. They start with pictures from me and Kathryn's anniversary dinner. We celebrate our one year anniversary on July 1st. We had dinner on a river boat on the Thames River. It was a lot of fun and really nice. Someone we had great weather also. It had been horrible weather for about a week leading up to that night and the weather continued to be horrible starting again the next day, but somehow it was perfect that night. We had some great food, some great entertainment, and even got to dance some. The next set of pictures is from the awesome trip we took to Paris the next weekend. We had the time of our lives. We definitely could have stayed for a few more days. We were actually surprised at how much we liked the city. We had heard a lot of negative things about going to Paris, and found that none of them were true. We took the Eurostar (train under the Channel) to Paris and as soon as we got there we were off. We went through the Louvre at a pretty rapid pace, but got to see everything we wanted to see. Then we went to a cool little fair they had and went on a great ferris wheel ride that allowed us to see all of the city. Next was a nice walked down the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. Once we got there we were running short on time so we head down the street to the Eiffel Tower to meet up with Fat Tire Bike Tours. The Eiffel Tower was awesome. It was so cool to actually be standing under it. That night we went on an awesome bike tour. Please if you are in Paris check out Fat Tire Bike Tours. They are a company started by Aggies that does amazing bike tours in Paris and the surrounding area (Versailles, Normandy, the countryside). Check them out they are awesome. This was the best thing I did all summer. The next day we didnt have a whole lot of time so we went to a nice musuem with a garden full of sculptures and had a picnic under the Eiffel. We then ran over to see Notre Dame and spent a little more time around the Louvre. Before we knew it, it was time to head back home...or I guess to London. It was an amazing trip. I cant wait to go back some day.