Crazy past few days.

Our overnight train from Split, Croatia to Zagreb, Croatia was three hours late, making us miss our connection to Vienna, but luckily for us we were on the train that was heading to Budapest so we said let's do it! So we went to Budapest, arriving at about 6pm. worst train ride so far as tony had cut up fingers that were swollen from the beach at croatia and they got infected and killing him for the past four days, but we bought some stuff in budapest that helped, it was also blazing hott and overcrowded, people were actually sitting in the hallways. but we were coming from a sweet place and heading somewhere we hoped was awesome so still happy. We got to Budapest, found a cheap and nice hotel and got settled down. By that time it was quite late and we were so exhausted we decided we should do as the Buda's do and get some beer and stayed out way to late, making us almost miss the rest of the next day. we found ourselves with three hours to explore an entire city. we did the best we could. Seeing their really cool Parliament.
awsome side note i (tony) have been very adament against buying metro or bus tickets but kel said this time we should really get one(cause to me they are always on the honnor system). we did against my wishes, she got one and of course the only time we have been stopped the entire trip she gets caught. but it was coo.
after that fun adventure we went off to vienna and found the greatest city of the trip. this place blew our minds we were only going to stay a few hours but were so intrigued we had to stay more. we found a hostel and stayed another day, which was well worth it. this place was clean, beautiful, and very very fun. The sighst are amazing and the people are soooo friendly. Within twenty minutes of being ther we were approached by two random older people that talked to us each for ten minutes of what to see and how they are worried for us and our heavy packs, it was awesome! The city is so great. Amazing transportation system, including a great biking line for the tons of people that bike. Anyways we really enjoyed it and both agreed its the place we would live if we lived in Europe, hands down. so Tony wants to look into going to school there, but no worries mom its very hard to get a working visa in Europe.
then we went to poland and learned some very intense and make you wanna punch some nazi things about what happened to the jews in auschwitz. that place put you in the situations that the jews were in cause; seventy yeays ago they were there. our guide was very good at showing the exact location of where there gas chambers were or where the place the nazis's gave them only a 15 sec bathroom break for an entire day, it was some eye opening stuff. On the ride there we had a Polish girl ask why we would even want to visit such a place, but glad we did as it was emotionally interesting.
after that sobering experience we headed to Krakow to hang out for a few days. the city was pretty awesome, we only saw a short amount of it, but quite entertaining. We went to the main square and watched break dancers, flame dancers, musicians and a clown/mime that followed people around and made a Lot of people mad, but entertained us and himself. We also found out while already in Krakow that our eurorail doesn't cover Poland or the Czech, big surprise, especially since we got into Poland with no problem. We decided to risk it and just get on the train hoping no one says anything, and no one did, hope going to Berlin goes the same.
We met some really cool people on our overnighter to Prague and now have been enjoying the city today. We took a free guided walking tour to learn about the sites and going to check out the nightlife tonight. So far it is a city with some cool buildings but not the top of the list, we'll see if the next six hours changes that!

Sidenote about cool Australians: One of our fellow hostelmates was talking to us, of course an australian chick that has a World Ticket and is travelling all over since January and to who knows when. They know whats up when it comes to travelling. All of them buy these tickets which are valid for a year and you can fly to every continent. Each continent you can have about 4 intercontinent flights, its really cool though!

Anyways we'll be home in a week but have sooo much to see and do before then, Berlin tomorrow, Hamburg with my buddy LArs the next day, Amsterdam and back to London for our few last days. Can't wait to see you all!

Croatia is Awesome.

We love Croatia! oh so in case ya didnt know we decided to add Croatia in because it sounded tooo irresistable. We had to take the 36 hr ferry from Greece to Venice, so we also got to see Venice for the day, which is a really touristy, expensive but cool city.

Then we headed to Croatia where we have been the past two days loving life. We went to Plitvice National Park yesterday, which was expensive but hey we may never be here again! Anyways, google it becaust it is amaying. 16 lakes and hundreds of waterfalls, soooooo gorgeous. Unfortunately it is kind of hard to get to, the buses were super expensive so we rented a car and that was a free place to stay for a night too.It also gave us the freedom to travel at our own ease, see the country side and tony loved driving stick on the european highways. It is super mountainous here so lots of reallz reallz long tunnels through the mtns.

Today we went to Brac Island, an hour away from our hub city Split on the Dalmatian Coast, super warm and relaxing. Clear blue water and lots of fun, last day on the beach for a while, till the cabin! We are now taking an overnighter to zagreb and then headed to budapest for the day. So far Croatia is awesomely amazing, people are so nice and friendly.

sunset one

A better side of Greece

Well Greece just kept getting worse and worse each day. We finally got out on Monday night, but unfortunately we slept through our stop which was at 630 am and ended up on the island of Ios. We wanted to be on Santorini but had planned on going to another island at some point, so here was our point. We found a cheap campground right on the biggest party beach of the island, and in case you don't know, Ios is THE PARTY PLACE IN GREECE.... Which sometimes we like but really we wanted our Greece trip to be relaxing on the beach and checking out cool towns, not really feeling the partying, but we were going to rally, or so we thought. After the longest game of chess, turns out I take an hour to play one game (always thinking) and a few other cranky cranky hours Tony and I looked at each other and knew we wanted no more of this island. It wasn't what we had signed up for!

So we bought another boat ticket and headed to Santorini. The boat ride set us right, Tony slept for two hours and I hung out on the top deck watching the islands and waves, sooo cool. The last two hours on the boat we sat watching the sunset eating a delicious mango, life was good again.

We spent the past two days exploring this island and it's little towns. We stayed in a rad hostel for 5 euros each a night, and one night they screwed us with only one bed so we made them charge us for only one person, worked out well. We also rented a scooter for the two days, 12 euros. Tony had a slight learning curve, I learned how to grip to him quite well. We somehow lucked out with the most powerful scooter ever!!! NOT. IT was sooo horrible. Every hill we went up we were concerned about getting to the top, multiple times we didn't and I had to hop off while Tony went he rest of the way, funny looks from the other scooters going by. But it was a joyous occasion none the less. PS. of course it was a Peugot, just one that couldn't go without us singing "Just Keep Swimming..."

Today I had the luck of getting the donkey like our scooter. The donkeys are a big thing here and quite entertaining. You can ride them down, take a cable car down or walk the long winding steps down to the port area and ride them back up. WE of course walked down and paid to ride back up, only five euros each. Well Tony's took right off, without me! I was all alone majority of the ride up, and twice some lady had to grab his ropes and pull my donkey to get going again, he would stop when he felt like it. HE also loved the sides of the walls. Anyways, point is it was a lot of fun but quite silly. WE had a blast the past two days.

The sunsets are supposedly the best in the world, and they are quite beautiful. We watched from the lighthouse on one side of the island the first night and then from Oia (the most popular sunset watching spot in the world) tonight. It was better at Oia but TONS of toursists who clapped at the end of the setting.

The beaches are quite interesting here too. A volcano erupted in 1600 BC so they have black and red sand beaches from the ash of the volcano. Santorini really has been a fun place. And they have bomb ass pitas, yum! Well off to Hungary

Greece

tony day reporting in, and so far greece has not been what we were expecting, the boat ride over was very fun and we met lots of cool people and traveled with one guy all the way to athens. he was very funny guy who was traveling alone because his travel partner fell down some stairs and broke his hip very intense. so he needed a buddy and we had some good times. once in athens we soon found out the place is super ghetto and there are deformed bums one lady had here feet facing the wrong direction. we have had alot of trouble getting around but have been able to find out that sparta is not going to happen. bummer but i did pick up a cool spartan t shirt. checked out the parthenon today and was very cool. we are out of athens tomorrow and off to beautiful santorini, blue and white houses with red sand and white and all the other colors of the rainbow.
we also totally changed our trip around becuase of some dutch girls(anyone who is from holland are great i have meet alot and they all have been very very awesome) we are not going to venice (sorry bec) but through eastern europe. through serbia and we will stop in hungary. which should be very different then to praha and poland this way should be a big change. good times

Information overload is glorious

We have learned so much interesting stuff the past two days and it will continue on till tomorrow and through greece I am sure.

Yesterday we went to the colloseum and as we approached the hour long line an english speaking gentleman approached us asking us if we wanted to do a tour that was 9 euros more than the ticket price, but we skipped the line and got a guided tour through the colosseum and palatino hill. Being that this was something Tony was really excited about and I found interesting we decided to go for it. The guide taught us so much about the history of the arena and the fighters themselves. Tonys fav tidbit was learnin that the gladiators trained for nine hours a day. It was really cool to have the tour, we would have been a little lost about all the history of this place. Then when we went to Palatino hill it really really helped to have a guide, that place is big! And with our guide we learned all about the birth of Rome from Romulus and Remus, as well as what SPQR means, which is on everything in Rome, even the sewer covers. Its a phrase that I cant remember, only Q: que which means and. But not the typical and, it means one thing cant be itself without the other. So a husband can't be a husband without the wife, a man can be a man, but a husband is only a husband with the wife. Well in this phrase it talks of how The senate of rome cant be a senate without the people and vice versa. It was cool stuff! Also learning about how they gave up their own blood or life for the city, Rome meant everything to them. Anyways, lil bit of history we found really interesting.

After that we went and saw the Pantheon, which was sweet, and a few other areas around Rome. WE had a nice Italian meal at this cute little place for our anniversary. Of course I got fettucine alfredo (had to see if it was legit in Italy) but Tony tried some authentic to only Rome meal that he loved. We also tried a glass of house wine...when in Rome we thought.

Today we headed to the Vatican to meet with the same tour group, we knew we would be absolutely clueless about everything there so we wanted to be told about it and so glad we did! It was three and half hours and man I learned more than I do in a semester! The sistine chapel is really really cool if you know what is going on. Tony and I really liked learning about all the figures in the Last Judgment, super cool stuff! Also learned about Romans idea of Beauty, which is pretty serious stuff. Anyways, it was really good to gain a bit of historical knowledge of this amazing place.

After the tour ended we had time to rome St. peter's basilica, that thing is big! but full of so much beauty and gnarly stuff! We were overwhelmed but really enjoyed ourselves. We eventually headed out to do the climb to the copula which gave us the gorgeous view of Rome. The walk up is so weird! Longest and tightest spiral staircase ever. Then you are walkin on a small platform that is leaned all weird because of the dome you are walking around. If you are clastrophobic, might not be your thing. But if you can handle it, its worth the view of the city, and the weirdness of the halls and stairwells. After that we headed into the tombs of all the popes which was interesting to read. A few we saw only lasted for three days or thirty three days, (if ya didnt know we arent to educated in this stuff, but were trying!). It was pretty cool to see the tomb of Peter. Anyways it was a really awesome past couple of days and tomorrow we head to Pompeii for the day to learn even more!

Roman Rains and Assisi Rays

We are now in Rome and had quite the adventure yesterday. But first have to tell of our new found love of Assisi! Such a cute cute town. WE also had an adventure there with accomodations but luckily some cool aussies (they really are so down and cool) helped us out with a great campsite for only 17 euro to go to. And it was conveniently close to town, just up a hill which tony had fun making me run up the next morning ( we are trying to be healthy and work out 4 times a week, he loves it and im getting to loving it.) Anyways but the convenience also made it so we could be on our own time in the town. WE saw the big St. Francis church there and wandered around the city. We played some crib and browsed through the shops. when the sun was setting we wandered to the castle at the top of town that overlooks a tuscan valley below, it was gorgeous. We both rated Assisi up there for sure.

From Assisi yesterday we came to Rome and headed to Pomezia, two train stops away where we had a hotel booked and man was that intense. We had no idea where or what Pomezia was but we assumed it would work out and we could take a bus there, man were we wrong. First off, the entire trip we have probably had a max of 5 minutes of rain, never really been stuck in it either, even in the UK. When we arrived in Rome it was raining, pretty hard. Which wasnt to bad because it was really humid and hot. Anyways so in Pomezia we tried asking any passer bys, they all just stared at us with blank looks, "holiday inn? what is this?" We found a bar that Tony went to charge our phone at, I stayed by the bus stop with the bags. Across the street was a lady in high platforms, a pretty reavealing dress and dancing to some music on her ipod. I watched her for a hwile and came to the conclussion she was a hooker. We had that confirmed after she got picked up, and then dropped back off an hour later. It was awesome. Also in Tonys absence I was approached by an old man in a truck, which I think he thought I was ahooker. He called me over to his truck, I thought he was trying to help and we had a little chat which neither of us understood the other but I was bored so I didnt care, until he starting saying a few things and then he grabbed himself. At that point I said NO and walked away. I have no idea what he was trying to say but I was not down with talking to him anymore.

Tony finally came back and he was really mad. The hotel receptionist informed us that the hotel was 8km outside of the town of Pomezia and the only way to get there is by a taxi which would cost 25 or 30 euro. So every time we wanted to come into Rome we had to pay that. We were not down with this. We tried for a hour and half to figure out if any buses went there but every bus that came pointed us to another bus which was funny because there was only two buses. In order to not get charged anything I had to cancel the reservation by 4pm, it was approaching four quickly. Due to our mishap in Siena when we got to the closed campground, the lady gave us a lil booklet of campgrounds in europe, so we found one in Rome and called to make sure it was open and available. once that was confirmed I quickly called the hotel to cancel luckily in time! We left the sketchy town of Pomezia to head to our campground. The campground is awesome, 23 euros so pretty good and free internet! A bar, free transportation from the train station and a pool.

We decided we needed to lighten our load of the beers and liquor we had been carrying around for 4 nights and after the day we had it seemed like the right night to do it. So we loaded up the day pack, no food just the beers and headed into Rome. We wandered around till we got to the Fontana de Trevi (Trevi Fountain) which was really cool, but filled with tourists there. There was a guy selling little tourist things like light wands and these two magnets you catch together and make a funny noise. He was showing them to Tony when a cop started to pull up, he ran into the crowd (apparently its illegal for them to be selling stuff there?). Because he fled Tony was confused but down with his new free toy. So we started to walk away, the guy followed us but then the cops came back so we chilled by the cops, as for once they were a benefit to us! Eventually we left the fountain to try to find a cool bar. Unfortunately there were none to be found anywhere near us. So we tried asking varios people and finally found two dudes that were from there that were going to the area with bars. We followed them on various buses and eventually got to the area, but most of the bars were closed because ti was a monday. After wandering around more with these locals, who spoke very little english and spanish, but somehow we had conversations, kind of. Eventually we decided we had a long road ahead of us of trying to figure out how to get back to our campsite since the trains stopped at midnight and it was 1 am.

We figured out the bus system and finally made it back to the station in our little town of prima porta, but then we had a mile walk to the campsite, luckily our packs were lighter though so we were happy and content. It was a fun night in Rome, and today we are headed out to see the Ancient City and have a good Italian meal tonight.

Italy!

Well we have only been in italy about three days but it is awesome. We went to Cinque Terre and hiked to each city, such a gorgeous hike, right on the Italian Riveria and freakin awesome! Tony swam into a cave, we both cliff jumped and we wandered the streets of these five little Italian towns. WE stayed at a bomb campsite about twenty minutes away, where Tony swam with the biggest waves ever, I thought he was going to die but of course he is all good.

We then went to Florence and saw that sweet town, we were cheap asses and didn't do go see David but we saw the duomo and lots of other cool things. We did a wine tasting with some dumb American hillbillies from Tennesse, that wanted hamburgers to wash down the taste of wine. The man choked on the wine, it was awesome.

Now we are in Sienna, where we journeyed a long road to a closed campground that opens in a week, lucky eh? now we are staying with nazi russians were we cant stay out past midnight and have to leave by 9 am! But the town is so cool. Cute little Tuscan town with some awesome cathedrals and buildings, piazzas for lots of cribbage playing. We walked through the city center, tony got pooped on by a bird, which I loved. People watching is great, italian families eating big meals and old women collecting bottle caps from the garbage.

My nephew

Carter finally decided to join us in the world on Friday Jule 11th , yay! Angie (from what I heard) did well and so did Carter. Sorry I couldnt be there but hope you guys are sooo happy, congrats!!! yay Im finally an aunt.

sidekick

we went to san sebastian, it was gorgeous! we only had a few hours, to recover from night before but what we saw i loved. you should def go there if youcan.

Tony´s turn

so it finaly happened, i am sure everyone was waiting for this we slept out side on a park bench. it sucked we slept for about forty min then were woke up by the cold, i can my jacket to a west point big tuff army kid, cause he was compaining about the cold. so it sucked. it was about six in the morning and we walked around looking at the sea of twenty year old kids sleeping on the streets and all wearing the traditional white shirt and pants with red scarf. this place can never be decsribed only experienced i have never seen so many people so drunk sooo drunk it was unbelevable the bathrooms take to long so everyone just pees in the street and trash cans are not used so there are cups, broken glass, sangaria bottles. the smell and seen take you back a second. anyway we wonder into get a bocadilla which is pretty much the only things you can eat in this city and it is a warm bagette with some meat, i think the are de lish.
we make our way to the running which starts at 8. and before we know it the crowd is awake and everyone is going to run or watch. we get to a place where we both can kinda see and me and kel establish a meeting point for after when i go run, i leave but soon come back there are so many people that it is impossible to get in know. so we watch and it is six bulls and six baby bulls vs probably two thousand people the only real danger comes from the people the bulls are just hanging out. needless to say i was not impressed and did not feel the need to run the next day,
we did go to a bull fight which was awosme they killed six bulls and had a wide variety of skill levels on matador got his face cut by the bulls horns and the main event guy was 23 and really good it was all about style and this guy had it he killed the bull with one sword when most others took two the shitty guy took four.
moral of san fermen it is about the party the bulls come second, european festivals are the craziest thing i have ever seen. with one million people in a town that takes ten min to walk across is crazy.

San Fermin

man are we exhausted. Three nights in Pamplona during running of the bulls (san fermin) is enough! We did have a very good time though. The first night we didnt make it to late but by round two we were ready to go! This time I took a sweatshirt and was able to rally all night, even though our hosts and most other friends of the night fell off to sleep.

Tony and I went out with Louise this chick from Denmark who was travelling all around the world by her lonesome having a ball. We downed lots of sangria and kalimochxos (sp?) which were quite delicious. And then embarked on many adventures, the first was a hip hop concert, in spanish. That was pretty fun but the beer was really expensive so Tony and I snuckaway to go get more beer and go to the bathroom. The bathrooms suck here, most don´t have toilet seats, never any tp and worst of all these damn european girls do not know how to pee rapido! I do not know what the hell they are doing in there but it takes them FOREVER!!!!! Drives me, and patiently waiting tony crazy. But anyways, so we went off on adventures and found many. We found a touristy, cheesy cowboy hat that we tried to barter everyone and every place for food.Tony finally found a dude (actually an old man about 50)willing to give up a bite of his sandwich for the hat, lucky tony but very unlucky Kelli. He screwed me over with nothing! I was so mad I went back to the guy and demanded the hat back or the entire sanwhich which he of course said no too. I was so jealous of tony andhis big bite I grabbed the hat and ran outside. Which I didntfeel to bad as these hats are ridiculously ugly. But apparently this guy was a big fan because he followed us outside and stared me down. I was a little scared so I gave the hat back. But Tony then came over and snatched the hat back off the guys head and took off running down the street. I followed immediately as I was terrified this guy was going to chase us, but we got away clean. Tonythen while I was using the restroom traded the hat for a popsicle, man was he in trouble again!!

The rest of the night was hanging out in bars dancing the night away.WE found one American bar that played lots of ol 80s songs, including Iget knocke down! but I get up again....., we were loving the songssinging at the top of our lungs to them.

Throughout the night we would hit lows and think of

San Fermin

Wow. really wow. Biggest party in a city I have ever seen. It was ridiculous! but absolutely fun.

Tony and I arrived, with no number for Felipe our host and no directions to his house, it was right when the mayor spoke to say hoorah lets party for a week and everyone starts spraying calimochos and sangria everywhere. So we were a little nervous of what was going to happen, especially because it took us an hour to finally find an internet cafe. Once we did we get his number, gave him a call and worked our way to plaza de castillo where everyone was hanging out getting wasted. Tony and I went to a touristy stand and bought some white pants and shirts, we had to fit in and not look like the typical Americans. Everyone, and I mean everyone is in white pants and tshirt with a red sash around the waist and a red bandana around the neck. All day and night you drink calimochos and sangria, which are like 7% alcohol. Tony drank one 1.5Liter sangria and was drunk, and they cost 3.5 euro, so you can imagine how the night went.
Felipe said he planned to stay up all night so we could go watch the running of the bulls that was at 8am. I was scared as Tony and I only had 5 hours of sleep from the night before and we started drinking at 1pm.
People are insane during this festival. They´ll stand on this one statue thingy thats 20feet up? and 10 people will stand below them linking arms to catch them as they jump to their fate. It was aweome, well kinda sad but the first dude we saw they barely caught him so he clonked his head a little and was pretty messed up for a while. But everyone else after that was caught. Girls were being retarded and going up there flashing guys and jumping, it was gnarly.

It was really fun though, apparently the city goes from 150,0000 people (i believe is what felipe said) to 1 million. Just ridiculous amount of tourists. He said everyone here is really calm and don´t party much during the year, their whole mindset is San Fermin and as soon as one san fermin ends they are thinking of the next one.

Anyways so Tony and I split up from the group for a bit and wandered around for 3 hours alone. We went to a lot of bars to dance for a bit. Searched for the best drunk food we could find, which we didn´t succeed very well at. Finally at like 2 am I couldn´t handle much more, the night got really cold and I was exhausted. So we were going to find a bench to sleep for a few hours but luckily after an hour we got ahold of Felipe again and he was actually back at home to sleep himself. Yay! So we got a lot of sleep, didn´t go to the running this morning as we would have had to get up at like 630 am but we are looking into getting tickets for the bull fight tonight and tomorrow morning we will go to the running. Felipe our host is going to run, as well as another cser here so tony is going to check out the scene, if it feels right he´ll do it. Only 9 people got hurt today :). But he won´t do it without knowing whats going on.

I´ll try to put some pics up later of everything from last night. Just absoulutely insane, imagine NY on New years times ten. The town is an awesome town, except during the festival, its soooo dirty as thousands sleep on streets, there aren´t many bathrooms so its taken to the streets, you just throw your trash on the ground. Very dirty but they have workers out trying to clean up as best as possible. Anyways, if you can´t tell we are enjoying San Fermin a lot, especially if we get to see a bull fight tonight!

Angie will you please have Carter, I keep having dreams about it and making bets with myself that it happened and check and no carter, so hurry up!!! :)

I have met my match

Well two new additions to the house are these Denmark gals and they are definitely my match in the one game I can beat everyone in (not mariokart) but Egyptian rat screw! They are so good and it was awesome to play someone that gave me some good competition. I was in awe. They said they learned it in the states from some dude from Morroco pretty sweet eh?

Happy fourth and happy birthday michael!!!!

hey guys just wanted to say happy fourth, hope ya had a celebratory day and michael happy birthday! we are still in barcelona since the trains in spain are a hassle, we tried to go to morroco instead but that is a little to difficult, and sketchy? So instead we are going to stay with the "No worries"crew again because they are a lot of fun and the house is rad and so are all the surfers and guests. Tomorrow we head to Madrid then to Pamplona for Running of the bulls. woo hoo!

Barcelona is awesome anyways, the beach is super fun, topless beaches none the less, which is fun and gross at some points. Big waves and sandy beaches (if you have locals pointing you in the right direction). Most resteraunts have pig legs (with the hooves still on them) hanging out at the counter waiting to be sliced, a little intense for me but Tony is always down. We love the metro and amazing buildings, some which have taken 140 years to build and still aren't completed. WE attended a fountain show last night wich was really cool, I was hoping to see Lauren there mom! as it seemed really touristy but still cool.

Anyways, Barcelona has been one of my favorite places so far. We are really bummed to not have made it anywhere else in Spain but at least enjoyed where we are at the past four days, these guys are great and the town is awesome. See what Madrid and Pamplona have to offer next couple days.

few more pics.

Switzerland rocks! and look we are still kissing and still very happy :). The pics below are pics from Paris music festival thing. The one with the paint on our face is Germany for the game, being locals! and then switzerland the mtns and such. So gorgeous!!!

pics!

European bike rides

well went for my first european drunk bike ride. quite the adventure. This would be at our new couchsurfer/hostel place. A cool dude with no worries named paul willing to host us, yet he is starting up his own tourist business and the works so if we want to stay with him we had to pay a little bit, but its well worth the little bit.

We have gotten spa treatment so to say. A kick ass pool in lovely barcelona (where hostels run for 25 euros a night per person) a private tennis court, becca I plan to kick Tony's ass tomorrow, showers, internet and laundry free which is soooo amazing, you forget what a luxurary they are in the US. And they feed us food, alchohol and good times at a very very small price.

Today we biked to the local pub which was hilarious, six of us on the sketchiest bikes ever! One shifter that shifted up and down, a little hard seat, tiny wheels, no shocks, just ridiculously awesome. Plus the streets are crazy with local drivers, and granted we are biking we 4 English men (they think traffic is on the other side of the street) its a shit show we'll say. But fun! def thought of last summer with you kimkim and two summers ago withyou A and T. So awesome. At the old school pub we had a lot of drinks, played some pool with a few band members that killed tony and slaugtered me. It was sooo cool cuz they are soooo good. Then we came back to this palace/spa to hang out with everyone. couch surfing rocks and europe is awesome. But we do miss you all! miss you and your birthdays, your days of birth! and the good days of summer. I miss the crazy random rope swing days, cliff jumping, and most of all cabin days, but we are having so much fun and hope you are enjoying this summer like us!

Germany loses

Well we came to Munich for the game and to get rowdy, unfortunately these Germans were pretty low key this weekend it seemed, or we were just in the wrong areas. Last night was the game and that was rowdy, we went to a public viewing, people were drunken and loud. It was awesome!! Until they lost which really sucked, although my original team was Spain so it was kind of cool. Anyways after that we wandered around trying to get to the Haufbrahos and never made it. Still had a good time. And the night before was really fun too. Went out with our hosts until 3 am.

Brian, the foosball plazers are sooooo insane here. they do actual soccer moves with the guys, it was nuts. So Tony was in a trance watching them and he is happy he finally got his liter of beer. off to barcelona!

Wow

Okay what an intense couple of days. Switzerland is the shit, absolutely amazing and gorgeous and awesome.Today we hiked from Lauterbrunnen, google that shit (images), to Grindelwald , about 8 hours of hiking up 2400 feet and back down, but absolutely worth it. We saw the most amazing scenic views, the biggest pig and the friendliest cows, cows that had cow bells! Any ways great pics.
After being haggard in Grindelwald while we ate ravs out of the can, barefoot in the street (8 hrs will do that) we decided to not hike tomorrow and instead takes Tim's awesome advice and get to either Spain or Germany by SUnday, as they are the final contenders in the Euro 2008 (as big as World Cup). So we got a train to Munich tomorrow and are going to get wild and crazy with the locals, yay soccer hooligans we finally got! Yup then off to Barcelona on Monday night. Wooohoo.
We both are having crazy dreams about back home, and really weird we are having synced dreams with each other, yup we now dream the same things. Wonder what we'll be like in 50 more days.
Becca, Happy flipping Birthday!!! and Michelle Happy 21st. and obviously we must wish Travis a wonderful birthday as well :) sorry we missed them all.
Ang and Tim: good luck next few weeks!!! Checking for updates as much as possible.
K off to Germany! might be sleeping in train station tonight

fete de la music

ya so its Tonys first actual post and its on a French keyboard so there may be some typos. we got into Paris and went to our host place who happened to be a big time carny folk. He was really cool and there were like five shirtless guys in the room and they were talking about the brazilans who got drunk the night before and walked to the eiffel tower and slept underneath it. already i thought this was gonna be an adventure. they said that saturday was going to be a huge party celebrating summer solstice and there will be lots of great music.little did we know the adventure in front of us. we went to this park right by notre dame which was gorgeous. these guys had all sorts of weird things to play with juggling things and other weird things. stayed there for a while and there were like dancers that were busting out the weirdest moves, travis i totally thought of you, he was doing backflips and handstands like that guy on youtube. then we started to go walk around and watch the bands and it was so loud the had percussion bands right next to cheesey american 70s cover bands. we started with the beers but i have to compalain about the beer in france there are like two brands and the expensive and never enough. but a small price to pay for the things to see in the country. so kel me and about six other couch surfers go sit by the riveria next to notre dame and start talking and drinking and doing juggling and magic tricks, pretty inteesting crowd, they were very impressed with my juggling, and kel the weirdo she is busted out a sweet magic trick that everybody loved and blew my mind. i met this guy named charlie thats what i called him but he had a very french name. he was into outdoor sports and liftin and boozin so we instantly got along. we got the biggest kick out of yelling FUCK OFF in a french accient to the tour boats going by. after four or five hours of that we got bored and me kel and charlie went to go for adventures; when we went up to the main street we were amazed to see that the already busy street had tripled. so i grabed kel and went for it. there was so much going on. caos charlie had a great time we went into gas station and tried to buy more beer but i guess they were tring to close and we litterally grabing me and making me check out when i was not ready.
peeing in this city is crazy to i already had to pee in an ally once but kel would not go for it; so you have to basically run into these shops not listining to no one and find it e got kicked out of a couple. after going through the crowed streets for a couple of hours we went back to ever one eles where we saw that each side of the river had developed a great sense of pride for there side and we yelling at the other side and throwing bottles at the other one. the we saw two naked bodies on the other side and they jumped in that started something and soon everyone was doing it, our host told me that the water was very dirty and it would be a bad idea for us to do it. after that we realized it was about four and being the responsible people we are we decided to go home and kel charlie and i left everyone and went on a new adventure.
we got on one subway and parted ways with charlie -who told me that he was going to design the t shirt for my next fight (he is a graphic designer) me and kel soon realized that there were no more trains and had to ind anther way. after about twenty min of hailing trying to get a cab we decided to walk it whic turned out to be about 3 miles. by the time we got home the sun was coming up and it was definitlly time for bed.
today was interesting all we accomplised was laundry, in paris france i know. but we said our goodbyes to everyone and went to the train station but the train was full so we will take the train to switzerland tomorrow; so we get one more day to check out some cool tourist traps tomorrow we hit the king of frances castle. expensive but worth it. hope all is well with everyone thanks for that link dad that is gonna be really good; i think that means you should get me a new x box so i can play it eh.

City of love... and it really is!

k this keyboard is annoying so im done trying to type with good grammar; youll get the gist.
So we made it to Paris. Caen (normandy) was a good time. our host was so so friendly and nice. We saw lots; War museum which was so big. Then went to the Omaha Beach and walked in water and the german bunkers; crazy stuff!! the cemetary was also really intense; so insane all the deaths that took place there. the museum thing of it was interesting to see all the personal sides of the people who partook in it.

Last night in Caen we went out for student night and had quite few drinks with the locqls: The girls went crazy over tony; flocked to him because he was american. We made a lot of friends that night. Including two texans that pqrtied with us because they missed their train back to paris.

Paris is a cool city; besides all the smoke and occasional smells. subway is awesome and helpful: people are so funny here; we went to a park and there were so many couples making out and completely unaware of the rest of the world: including this man and woman who had to be at least fifty totally gettin it on in the park: that was a fun kick:

We went to the louvre for free and holy crap that thing is soooo big, so big. We just tried to focus on all the stuff wee wanted to see; Becca tons of Ancient Egypt stuff; you would have loved it; i did! Then Greek stuff too. we then walked along champs elysees to arc de triomphe. Then walked to the eifeel tower; passing by so ,uch cool stuff. We walked up the eifeel tower, that was a work out for sure.

Today were headed to Notre dam to hang out in the park all day because its the day of music in paris. anyone that can play an instrument comes to the streets and plays; drinks and be merry. the place we are stayin at has like 5 pther surfers; Austria; mexico city, us, paris; love all the different cultures in this one little flat. We will go to the park with them today so should be a fun crazy time!!!

Have to go now!!

Been a while!!!

First off, European keyboards (besides UK) are different, so sorry for any typos, this is weird. Anyways; just wanted to let you all know we are doing well. In Caen (Normandy) right now, headed to Omaha Beach and Dday areas tommorow. We tried to get to Mt St Michel today but trains didnt go at the right time. We have an awesome host here that we are stayin with for three nights. Teaching us some basic French. Tony is hilarious to listen too; always eager to try it out with strangers, doesnt work as planned.


Well have to go for now. Miss you all!! We will be in Paris on Friday, yay! Try to update when there.
Angie you have your overnight bag packed!!!!! so exciting.
Katie I went to Elephant House in Scotland where JK Rowling started HP on the napkins, have a napkin for you if it makes it home...
Edinburgh is my favorite city so far: so so so amazing. Rest of Scotland was so rough with midgies and ticks, yuck!!! Explain later

Tony says bonjour!!! Ou re voir...

London,Bath,Cambridge.

Well we are still doing good! Actually feel like we are back home, at an air force base near Cambridge with Tony's rad friend Lyndsay. We went to a grocery store here and paid american, that was nice!

To recap the past few days. Tuesday was doing things around London again. We went to St. Paul's Cathedral for the eucharist there. That was neat and since we went for communion it was free, handy. Then we headed over to Tower of London, which is freaking rad! the Beefeater guys are so hilarious and entertaining. I loved all the little stories and stuff. After that we walked across Tower Bridge while Tony sang London Bridges Falling Down. Good to know he is still singing huh? Some days we aren't singing, some days we are crabby and tired but still very happy and feel lucky. He is playing Grand Theft Auto right now so he is happy.

Well we wandered around London some more that day, tried to see a Shakespeare play but they were all sold out. Opted for Panini's at this little food vendor at Gabriel's Wharf.

Yesterday (June 11th) we headed to Salisbury, a very cute little town with a big cathedral that was not bombed during WWII because apparently the troops used it as a landmark to figure out where they were. neat huh. From there we took a bus ride to Stonehenge and did the audio tour thing there. IT was pretty gnarly. Those rocks are intense and tricky with all the secrets about it. After that we headed to Bath where we hung out all day wandering around watching bums sing "Deh oh! HE's a deh oh....(beetlejuice song). We stooped low enough to take fries off this plate that these people left untouched, how lucky we were! Two seconds later the seagulls went for the rest of it, we were just in time!

Well then we went and met up with our host for the night who is freaking rad! His name is Jensen. He took us up to his pad, which was freaking awesome! Such a gorgeous view of the city. WE def owe them lots. Cup also gave us a freaking phone this morning! How crazy is that? Yup but awesome. But uh sorry we can't use it to call home, we need it for calling our hosts in Europe.But it's sweet. We went out partying last night with them in this little pub in Bath, Tony even drank a few glasses of wine, after some beers of course.

Anyways, now we are spending the day hanging out with Lyndsay in her nice house with her kick ass Malmute Dog and rad little cat. We just made some stir fry, yum!

We're Alive!

Well first day is over and done, but what a fun and weird day! The plan of staying up all night did not helps us sleep on the plane, so we were in a zombie like state for most of the day, till we took an hour nap at St. Jame's Park and then Hyde Park with I swear all of London. We lucked out! Yesterday was hottest day of the year, apparently even hotter than Spain, so everyone in London was laying out in the parks. Not sure if they do this on normal days, but people taking naps during their lunch break. Anyways...
Dad we went and saw Westminster Abbey and wow. Was really really cool. So insane all the intricate details, every little bit had a face or intense design. Was really cool learning about all who was buried there. We def were wishing we were more knowledgeable about this stuff though. Then we checked out Buckingham Palace, Big Ben- it really is freakin' big. We got of the tube and bam! there it is. So our first day was very fun, rode the tube all day. Went to Harrods, did not buy anything though!
We are staying at the Journey's Smoking Barrels Hostel, fairly close to town, 15 pounds each for two nights, pretty good! Includes breakfast and we can ditch our bags here for the day.

So Tony is extremely happy, we found a gym for him to check out and go train at, a MMA (UFC) gym. And it is def something straight out of Rocky, it's in this random little town that we wandered through till pointed in the right direction. As you are strolling up there are multiple BMW cars, street bikes, and anything you would consider a baller car with Tap Out stickers on, so we knew it must be close. Come around this corner/alley thing and have about 40-50 shirtless guys in this hanger like warehouse just doing their thing. Tony was in love. We stayed there for a few hours, he rolled, I hung out. Everyone was super super friendly and helpful. Hopefully Tony will write something about it but all I know is he says it was the shittiest equipment he's seen but amazing training, these guys were legit and good. I'll leave the rest of that for him to tell you about. He is still in bed because he woke up at 6am for some random reason and decided to go for a run....

Well that was our first day. More to come! Thanks for whoever put the link to the Tv spot of Tony's fight, he's going to be so excited! Miss you all! Mom give Roxi a kiss for me. Thursday we'll be staying with Tony's friend so if she let's me I'll try to upload pics of our first few days.
Tim, any good suggestions of where I should upload my pics too for safety reasons? I'm scared my camera might get stolen or I'll run out of memory space so I want to try to get pics on a website as much as I can. Shutterfly? or just do Photobucket? I need somewhere I can order prints from because getting them back off the website is not good, always crappy pics. So I'll just order prints and CDs from that website in case it happens. Which it better not! Thanks!

Ok on iPhone but FYI-tony won!!!

And he made local news!
http://www.kmvt.com/sports/19639004.html?video=YHI&t=a

The "before" picture

Last picture before the trip from BBQ

Packing

Well I have my bag packed! (And so does Tony!) I went back and forth between which shirts are my favorite but most efficient; everything has to match with everything else.

I believe clothes wise this is what I took (yes I know I should remember since I just did it this morning but it's been a hectic AND fun day! thanks lunch and dinner dates.)

If you aren't interested in what I packed skip ahead but I want this documented for my knowledge at the end of my travels, see what I come home with and what I ditched, or lost along the way.

So two shorts, two pants...one that changes into capris, two sundresses, one flowy skirt, about 4 tank tops, 2 t-shirts, my white DC jacket, a long sleeve shirt, my red, and yes, hole-y Nikita sweatshirt, one long underwear, 5 socks, 2 bras, 2 sports bras, 1 swimsuit, and about 7 pairs of underwear.

Then the accessories, which do add up! Converters, and cards, cameras and first aid kits -let's hope never to be used which probably isn't possible with KT. Hell after Saturday night's adventures: fights, bars, Tony, we may need it before we leave.

Anyways, I feel like the trip begins tomorrow with my sister's baby shower, which by the way Ang saw movie tonight where someone gave birth and had friends/family come visit in hospital, almost teared up to think that I really am going to miss you, Carter and Tim. I'm really sorry I can't be there to hold your hand, laugh and cry, and see my first nephew with you two. But you'll do great! And you better, uh...email me? Immediately.

Then were off to the fights where Tony will do great. So wish us luck, it's almost here!

FYI: we still haven't figured out where we are staying our first few nights, oh boy, the adventure begins...

Garage Sale

So the garage sale has come to a close. But we walk away very very happy, made about $540! Never imagined to make so much but so glad because we'll need it. Thanks everyone for all the donations and for the help setting up, I owe you guys!