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the wedding

so ive been home for a couple weeks now. i spent my time seeing everybody, eating at all my fave restaurants, etc. its sooooo good to be home. on the weekends paul has been teaching me to drive the mustang. we just practice like 30 mins/weekend cause i get too stressed out and quit. im not doing too bad at it tho i think. the past few days ive been spending pretty much every waking minute on the knot looking at wedding stuff. im adding a link to my wedding page and yall can see pix of stuff that im looking at. id love to get opinions from everyone about things (constructive criticism only!).

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amsterdam

hey everybodies, im writing from amsterdam. we left at 7am fri morning on the bus. first we stopped in the city of canterbury for a couple hours and we went thru the canterbury cathedral that all the peeps used to flock to (as in canterbury tales). when we went in, there was a sign that had the rules posted via pictures (ie, a camera with a red slash thru it to say dont take pictures). one was a pic of an ice cream cone and a drink can to mean no eating in the church. kristie was standing kinda far away and w/o her glasses and she goes “no painting?” and i was like “what?” and she points to the sign. she thought it was a paint can and the ice cream was a paint brush! then on the way back to the bus we stopped by the toilets and there was a rat in the bathroom! some people that worked there were trying to catch it and it kept running thru the diff stalls. kristie and this other girl went in the mens bathroom instead cause they were scared of it 😛

we were orig sposed to take a ferry over to france, but instead we ended up going via the channel tunnel. the bus drives into this container car on a train and then rides on the train thru the chunnel, arriving in france. we arrived last night and checked into the hostel. then the tour guide (its a bunac trip) lead us all thru the red light district to see the hookers in the windows. afterwards we all split off to do our own thing. kristie and i went and had pizza at a little cafe with these 6 other girls and then just headed back to the hostel to go to bed (it was past midnight by then).

then this morning we got up for bfast and the group did a bus tour of the city before going on to a small fisherman village about 20 mins away. there we bought touristy stuff, had lunch, and went to a cheese factory to see how cheese was made. after we got back into amsterdam we were let loose to do whatever. kristie and i went with those girls again to the house (it was a warehouse/store actually) where anne frank and family lived for the two years that they were in hiding. afterwards kristie and i walked around a small bit, but its really cold and iwndy and drizzly outside so we decided to come here for an hour before going to the movie theatre. after the movie well prob get dinner and then go hang out in a coffee shop before bed. in the morning the group is leaving to head back to england, but on the way we are stopping in a belgian chocolate shop and a french hypermarket.

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i love venezia!!!

ok i thought milan was great…it has nothin on venice!!! i LOVE VENICE. too bad we just missed mardi gras by a couple of weeks, that woulda been cool. today is gorgeous.venice is gorgeous. i wish i could buy everything. our hostel is right on the water!! that gorgeous mediterranean blue water with this spectacular view right from my bed!!! it was so easy getting into the city and finding everything for once. i bought meds at the pharmacy yesterday so im not sick anymore and everything is fantastic. thats all for now…this internet is crazy expensive!!

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bonjourno from florence!!

bonjourno from florence!! its only day 3 and i have so much to write about, but all that will hafta wait till im back in the US and have the time to type it all. we’re doing and seeing so much! exhausting but great. rome was beautiful – great architecture, blue skies…when we woke up in florence it was pouring (word?) snow and even sticking to the ground a lil…we walked to the bus thru the woods in the snow…lovely. it stopped snowing by the time we were in town, just leaving everything cold and gray. but the buildings in florence are too pretty to notice. the streets of florence are what i think of when i picture the tiny italy alleyways and stone streets. the hostels (esp the one in rome) SUCK BIG TIME, but oh well, i can tough it out. i bought a GUCCI (prob fake) purse from a street vendor for only 7 euros after talking the guy down from 40. i have no interest in it being designer or not but its pink with a buckle and very cute. the haggling was the best part cause it was fun! tomorrow morning we are going to a museum and then catching the train to milan where all the designer stores are (kristies paradise). then sunday we leave for venice for 2 days then returning to rome to fly home to london. very busy week. the worst part about it is that every other day we enter a new city and hafta figure out the transportation system all over again which is very frustrating. love and miss everybody! ciao!