"Not all who wander are lost"

Yes..as you may have been able to guess from the inspirational quote as the title of this post, this is Kendall typing. Today was a day where we just wandered around Barcelona. We love seeing the sites but we also love taking in the atmosphere, the vibes, and the culture (and food too of course) of the places we visit. We have come to a consensus that we LOVE Barcelona and that it is incredibly under rated! When we said we were back packing through Europe, Barcelona wasn't necessarily a place that everyone was telling us to go to. But we love it because ya its a major city in Spain, but the vibes of it as really laid back and relaxed, so it's nice to jut wander around and "get lost in the city" like Chris Hardy suggested on the first day of our time here! He's also the one that told us hat he wouldn't be surprised if Barcelona ended up being our favorite place we visit, and I think that it will definitely be a top place!!

Today we woke up a little late and then sent off some of Riley and Avery's clothes back home to lighten their loads a bit! Then the wandering began. We took the metro to the top of this hill near the ocean but still close to everything in the city. We walked up a little ways to fine a castle! There was a wall surrounding it that looked over the whole city and the ocean. It was so nice to sit on that wall and just take in everything around us and feel the breeze on our faces. We stayed up there for a while before we decided to head down the mountain in search for food. On the way down, we found a few cool gardens and parks that we stopped in. We got some fruit and then walked to the pier and laid in the sun and ate some of our fruit. Then we got an email from Chris saying that we were invited to dinner with him and the fam and the apartment! We LOVE hanging out with the hardy's!!! So of course we jumped on the opportunity to spend time with them! It was another delicious dinner made by wonderful Emily!! We were a little less ravenous this time but I still had like 4 helpings because it was soooo good!!! We were even treated with some flan fresh off a nearby farm! Very tasty! But we still had a sweet tooth and ate another mini magnum temptation that Nicole got us all hooked on!!!!!! !Anyways! We're all so excited for tomorrow and so excited to go to the flower festival in Girona! We love Barcelona but I'm excited to adventure into other parts of Spain too! It'll be sad to say goodbye to the Hardy's though! We've grown to love them and their cute girls so much!

It Started With the Shawarma...and It Was Uphill from There

It's me. Nicole. AND I LOVE BARCELONA! Mostly, I love Spain. Period. I keep going all these places thinking that I am so devastated to leave and "how can I ever love the next place as much as this".....but I tell you what. It just keeps getting better. Yesterday, we went to the street market in Galway in the morning and got the BEST donuts I have ever had. Kendall and Riley bought some rings, and we just soaked in the Irish hippy vibes. I love the street performers in Galway and the markets smell like fresh pesto and sundried tomatoes. My favorite things. Then we took a super long bus ride (as usual) to get to the middle of nowhere airport decades early (as usual). We honestly haven't ever gotten so sassy and upset on the whole trip as we did at the Knock Ireland West airport. As we've said before...you don't want to see any of us hungry (especially Avery)...it's not a pretty sight. When we got to the airport, they wouldn't let us check in. Then they made us pay a 10 Euro fee to be in the airport....whaat??? The poor sweet old Irish woman who had to be the messenger in that situation. None of us held back our feelings on that matter. She was probably scared out of her wits. We were livid. And hungry. Which is probably why we were livid, really. Then we got to the "food court" (if you could call it such a thing) and found nothing but candy (which we had made ourselves sick from already), old fish n' chips that cost 13 Euro and had been sitting out all day, short bread cookies, and Pringles. Well...we decided we really need to be healthy and cut back on the sugar...so naturally, the 2 for 5 Euro Pringles were the only option. So healthy. I honestly made myself sick. The donuts for breakfast, box of Irish mint truffles and 2 cans of Pringles made us all feel even more miserable and disgusting. Live and learn. Avery and I had a wonderful plane ride, filled with girl talk and naps. For Kendall and Riley, it was the "most miserable experience of their lives." Here's Kendall's interjection:

"Alright...Kendall here now. The plane ride was pleasant enough when we first sat down...but after about 30 minutes or so...the true colors of the plane began to show.. Literally. The entire plane is bright blue and yellow so bright that it hurt my eyes. The plane kept dropping and raising really fast so my stomach kept dropping and i'd fly out of my seat, or i would be plastered into the seat with no choice but to feel the plane rising and me sink deep into the seat with my neck drooping! Why oh why were babies surrounding my exact seat?! Kicking, crying, laughing (more of a creepy cackle like he had just put a worm down his sisters pants!) I was relieved to find Riley's face portraying an equal level of being disturbed as me! Then, here I am searching for any extra morsel of space to extend my legs! These suckers have got to stretch and being cramped into a tiny ball like i realized i was was not going to work! I was inches away from either stretching my legs by exteding them over riley and having my feet resting on the stranger next to us, or putting my feet straight up on Nicole's chair in front of me! "GET ME OFF OF THIS FLIGHT" was all i could think! Luckily, we got off and regained our sanity, but it was questionable there for a while... here's Nicole again"

Alright she's right. It's me. Nicole again. After the flight, which landed in Girona, Spain (ryanair lies and tells us it's barcelona. There is an hour difference. Never listen to Ryanair), we were lucky enough to hop right on the bus to Barcelona! The bus ride was beautiful! Just woods and the sunset and the old Spanish architecture...lovely lovely lovely. That night, we took the Metro from the bus station and then found our way to good old Chris Hardy's apartment! We were wearing all of our sweaters and whatnot for the Irish breeze, and then landed right in the middle of what felt like the Sahara Desert! By the time we got to the apartment, we were DRIPPING (not an exaggeration. Actually dripping) in sweat. Our dogs were barking, and our backpacks were being dragged on the ground. But after talking to Chris, we learned that Barcelona hadn't even reached dinner time yet. Dinner typically starts at 10:00 pm or so and then the clubs and stuff open around 1:00 am or 2:00am and people stay out until around 5:00am and then sleep all through the morning. Hm. He also said that Barcelona is not a place to sleep. We can catch up on sleep later, but we've gotta live it up while we are here. OKAY! We were ready to conquer the world. We got "dolled up" (aka switched out of our hiking shoes and sweats into tivas and shorts...you think I'm kidding)...for a Lebanese dinner. We were laughing hysterically at ourselves the whole time we walked over there, because 1) we got all dressed up and ready for a night on the town, just to go to a hole in the wall, empty Lebanese food place that is about as classy as "Chipotle." and 2) That these outfits were our idea of getting dressed up! We were pathetic. The food was SO good though. We couldn't read anything on the menu (it was all in Catalan...not to mention we probably couldn't read it if we were in America either...we aren't all too familiar with Lebanese foods). We got Shawarma and Felafel and some other thing we couldn't pronounce, and it was all DIVINE. We knew that this food was the first good omen for the rest of our trip. And we were right. After dinner, we started our horrible habit/ beautiful tradition of stopping by the 24 hr market down the street to buy ice cream bars. We went onto the paseo to eat them, relish in the warm breeze, lie on the sidewalk and dance in the street. We waited until midnight to sing Happy Birthday to our dear Avery, and then, after realizing that we were dead tired, we decided that "dressing up" for dinner was enough craziness for one night. What a shame we are to the Barcelona nightlife.

The next morning- AVERY'S BIRTHDAY and Mother's Day- we woke up and walked to church with the Hardys. At church, right when Kendall and Riley sat down, an Elder turned around and blatantly WINKED right at them. Maybe the rules of the mission are different with different cultures? Maybe that's normal here? They looked so confused and were talking about how weird it was for the next hour, until right after sacrament meeting he came up and apologized for the misunderstanding. He was trying to wink at the man sitting behind them who was getting confirmed that day. It was pretty classic at the time. But church was amazing! Most of the members are immigrants from South America and have really hard lives trying to earn money here for their families back at home. I loved hearing their stories and their testimonies. I learned so much from them, and from just talking to Emily Hardy that day...it was just epiphany after epiphany and I had the chills the whole time.

After church, we went to Parc de la Ciutadella. It is Barcelona's most central park, but it is absolutely beautiful. We walked around and rowed in little boats in the pond and explored the pathways, buildings, greenhouses, and statues all over the park. Then we walked over through the Gothic Quarter and loved their narrow cobblestone streets and the vibes in that part of town. We found a little pizza shop that had really delicious calzones with mushrooms and meat in them and ate outside in the sunshine. It was glorious! Then we walked down to the shore and listened to street performers playing Andean music and got ice cream and walked around the street markets. Then we found a grassy knoll by the ocean and lied on eachother's stomachs to take a nap. Again, glorious. After our rest, we walked down Las Ramblas (extremely touristy, not much to see) and over to the main square where there were floods of protestors and hippies rallying together. We finally walked home where we played with Jane and Alyse and got ready for the dinner that Emily made. It was incredible! Pasta with sundried tomatoes, parsley, fresh parmesan, cherry tomatoes and then pineapple and bread...we inhaled that dinner so fast, it was not anything short of disturbing. That poor family had probably never seen such a sight. But we loved getting to know them better and just talking with them. They are amazing, amazing people with the coolest lives! Then, Emily brought out the chocolate that changed Kendall's life. For good. She honestly hasn't been the same since. It was just the dark chocolate Valor bar with almonds that they sell at a lot of convenience stores here (which I know because Kendall honestly has us go into EVERY one in search of these things), but it is so good! We stuffed ourselves silly. After dinner, we had a lot of down time before we slipped on dresses and went out on the town! (Around 1:00? Which is early for these people). We walked to the Mojito salsa club to celebrate Avery's birthday (an hour late, I know). It was the funnest night ever. At one point in the night, I look over to see: Avery: flowing dress, whipping hair, having the time of her life while a crazy weirdo in a sweater vest and too much hair gel shimmies and makes the most animated faces I have ever seen, Kendall: dancing with a short, stalky, spiky haired, stone-faced, 45 year old Salsa sensation from Ecuador who doesn't even seem to be paying attention, but manages to whip, dip, spin, and twirl Kendall until her feet can't even touch the ground, and Riley: laughing herself to tears, literally and uncontrollably, while a ridiculously sweaty and spastic 5'3" man dances around her at the speed of light and keeps accidentally touching his dripping, bald head to her underarm, somehow. I was dying. This whole scene was too funny. Though we were having the time of our lives, we looked like the biggest noobs compared to the sexy Spanish women who all were professional dancers and wore high heels and red lipstick. We stuck out like a sore thumb. Nevertheless, we decided to end on a strange note when the weirdo who had been dancing with Avery, kept sticking out his tongue (not in a trying to be gross or sexy way, but in a "nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner" pesty little brother way) at us while he'd dance with Riley...and then he just paused with the music, looked at her, and bit her arm. What??? It was just too awkward. Hilarious. But too much to handle! Regardless, I think it is safe to say, we will never forget that night and honestly had the time of our lives. Sorry for the ridiculously long post. Whoops! That's all for now! I love Barcelona. I love it here, and never want to leave! I think I've gotta live here some day.

livin life on the edge!

today’s agenda was debated for quite sometime yesterday. we all had somewhat different opinions but the ending decision was to buy a ticket for the cliffs of moher tour. we were a tad worried we were going to have had spent 26 precious scrillas for an annoying tour group and boring tour guide. 

However, all our fears were quickly gone when we got onto our tour bus and our 90 year old, white hair leprechaun opened his mouth(which so happened to be covered in questionable white goop) and also his name was desmond. If only I could add in a voice recording of his voice booming over the bus speakers! It was literally hysterical!   He told us to kiss him, was a clear addict of Guinness beer, and he actually said these exact quotes, “osyters are good for your sex life, i ate 3 dozen oysters last night that have not taken effect yet, so ladies, watch out!” and other hilarious nonsense like how we has done the dirty against a rock wall we made a stop at. He kept cracking American jokes and don’t worry, he gave out his digits over the microphone. Oh, and not to mention he said “I love you” in 40 different languages when we were leaving. We were dying! And don’t forget that this man had the thickest irish accent you could ever imagine! In the first 5 minutes we unanimously decided we made the right choice! 

Our first stop was to this cool castle from a heck of a long time ago

Next, a glorious look out point of the surrounding cities!

And then we made a stop at the home of all the fairies in the land!

 then to some stone aged cemetery

And then we made it!! after 4 hours of listening to desmond rant about who knows what, we finally made it to the cliffs!

Nothing was better than feeling the wind in our hair, the sun on our face and looking out at the scenery.  The cliffs were breath taking and we sure soaked it all in:the sun, the cliffs, the everything! (*side not: we have taken 2,600 photos thus far. Thank you, Nicoley oley!!) We had such a wonderful time prancing around the dandelions! and then back on the bus we went with our dear desmond! once we got back to the hostel we took our bags up and quickly left to get some dinner! we realized that the only time when the mood of us girlies get a little tense is when we are hungry, not when we are stranded or getting stroked or have nothing to do, just when we are hungry.  big gurls ova hurrr! anyways, we got some food and kendall bought 12 of her favorite chocolate bars and then we went to the pub to listen to some irish music! which one thing may have lead to another...and the super duper cute danish guitar player in the irish band   kissed me! sorry mom, but this is real and something i will never ever forget! yahoo! we all kinda freaked out and laughed and screamed but ya i guess it did happen and we can all laugh about that forever and ever. we are posting all our Ireland photos to the fbookie tonight cause sadly, tomorrow we depart this gorgeous country but then we are off to Barcelona and we couldnt be more thrilled! let the good times keep coming, baby!! happy day! happy day! happy day!

Just doing our Irish jig! By: Kendall

Today was a travel day...hate to disappoint all you loyal fans who check the blog religiously everyday (I think that description only includes our parents and...ourselves), but today wasn't that interesting for the first half. We got up at 6 am so we could catch the bus to leave our beloved country BFE town of Glemcolumkille and went to Galway. We bus hopped there and just enjoyed the view out the window. We got to Galway and stuck our stuff in our hostel and went out to the "inner circle". We got some lunch. The soup we got was good but Riley got this cheese sandwich that was literally two prices of white bread with a slice of plain cheddar cheese in it. Haha following that, we romped around the cobble stone roads and looked inside some shops and also purchased the most delicious candy bars in the world!!! Shout out to Cami Gallacher for introducing these to me!! Kinder Bueno bars are the greatest chocolate candies in the WORLD!!!!! There was a 3 pack deal so we obviously each bought a 3pack! I think I might throw away one of my 2 shirts so I can make room for these suckers in the bag to bring home!!! Anyways..more on food: Avery and I discovered the most delicious shake shop!!!!!! I got a nutella and banana shake and Ave got an Oreo shake that apparently was delicious but Riley and I have been avoiding eating and drinking anything that Avery and Nicole even breathe on because they are sick and Riley and I are trying avoid catching the black plague while we're romping around the continent! We continued to peek around in shops and window shop and reorganized our stuff in the hostel for a bit, and then we left to hit the town! We were directed to a pub that was supposed to be really yummy but it was a bit too price for us, so we decided to stay on the hint! We ended up finding this cool traditional place that had nothing less than LAMB STEW!!!!! So of course we went in there and got the most delicious meal ever! We were fully stuffed when we finished and set out to find a hopping pub scene...and boy did we find it! A pub that had 5 fiddlers and a banjo and an accordionist! The place was packed and there was only standing room and there was even lady who was there playing that apparently is a Irish legend! The bar tender got everyone's attention and told everyone to be quiet, and what comes booming from the bar? But a big bald man's voice wearing a muscle tee singing a ballad about his childhood and a girl he loved in a garden! It was straight out of the movie Tangled! It was hysterical and so awesome! I didn't think the night could get any better, but out of nowhere a drunk old man grabbed my arm and spun me around and we danced! I danced with an old drunk Irish man in a pub in Galway! Who would've ever guessed! Hahah we continued to pub hop for a bit and found a pub where they were setting up for live music. It ended up being western American music and I was sure I was back in America with the sheriff and people wearing spurs! But I wasn't..instead I watched Avery and Nicole dance like crazy people as Riley and I were laughing our heads off! Needless to say, it turned out to be a great day!...just as everyday thus far has been!

HEAVEN ON EARTH

Well, this is Nicole speaking (well, writing) and I must be dreaming. I was a little worried that I had made up Ireland's glory in my head...after all, it was two years ago and maybe I just invented it as an escape in my mind and I didn't love it as much as I express 24/7? Well, I am ashamed that I ever thought that way. This land is everything and more than what I remember! The second our taxi driver came and I got to listen to U2 on the bus rides through sheep covered hills of green, I started crying. REAL TEARS. I could not possibly be happier than I am at this moment. Well after our first day in Glencollumkille (Glen Chlom Kille) I was again proven wrong. BEST DAY EVER. We woke up early in the morning and Frank, the hostel owner, drove us into town down the winding roads overlooking sea cliffs and sheep. We stopped at a convenience store (literally the only thing open in the town...possibly one of the only places to get food in the town) and got pb&j supplies (cheap, easy, and delicious-also we thought it was funny that the "american style" peanut butter features a panda bear. Ireland is clearly confused).  From the store, we set on our merry way and trekked up to the top of these cliffs. It was the most beautiful day and we were in the most beautiful area I have ever seen in my life and we were just in the fields, SURROUNDED by sheep, and would see shepherds just taking herds of sheep for walks down the road, and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. We explored and explored and walked and walked. We were in no hurry, so when we would get tired, we would all lie down on top of one another and talk about our picturesque future lives and girl talk and what not. Then we would start feeling overwhelmed with more joy than our weak bodies can handle as we looked around and realized where we were. HEAVEN! We got to the top and explored around the tower, took a nap, ate some oranges, explored, frolicked, lied down again, and then made our way back down (a little faster than the way up because we were going to buy some chocolate at the store the SECOND we got down there..when in Ireland! C'est la Vie). After we got back to our hostel, we took a lovely nap. Then we woke up and used the "left over, anything you can find is free" cupboard to make a pretty delicious, and 100% free meal  from people scraps of pasta and garlic and a dash of olive oil (also my bag of carrots from the day before-that everyone teased me for buying-were very handy). We then got really cozy and walked over towards Silver Strand beach for a sunset walkabout. We walked up on the cliffs (apparently no one cares if you hop fences in Glencollumkille. That's real) and it was the most beautiful sight we have ever beheld! Absolutely magical. We danced our hearts out in the sheep fields on the cliffs and then made our way back towards the beach. Well, we had to check one thing off the list, and a secluded, gorgeous beach, in the middle of NOWHERE Ireland seemed like the best place for it, so one thing led to another and we were running down the beach. And it was a "full moon." Beautiful, liberating. Anyways...we got back to our cozy hostel, fireplace cracklin', and wrote in our journals and went to bed! What a lovely, relaxing, perfect day. I LOVE IRELAND. I'll never forget it. I feel so grateful to be here and everyday, I think it can't get better. And everyday, I am slapped in the face with experiences and awe and proven wrong. 

We'll Cross That Bridge When It Comes

Riley here, well today was quite the traveling adventure, just as a little preface…we used eight forms of public transportation to get from Uncle Max’s Apartment to our hostel in Ireland, yes that’s real.  The day started out early, because we were a little paranoid that we were going to miss our flight, but anyways we left the apartment a little before seven and walked to the tube where we caught the over ground.  Once we got off the over ground we had to find the bus stop where we were going to catch our shuttle to the airport, which was actually in the middle of no where.  We got there, well, four hours before our flight left, and they wouldn’t even let us check in, but at least we were safe rather than sorry…right?  Once we got checked in and through security we ate some lunch, and I also bought this dress which is the CUTEST thing in the whole world and I am going to go on a bit of a rampage about it for just a minute.  Basically we saw this sale rack with some dresses on it and just said, hey why the heck not we might as well take a gander.  Then I saw it, it is PERFECT, it is a tan color with a small-ish floral colorful print, and it is the perfect length and has short sleeves and I am absolutely obsessed with it.  And it was the first time in the a long time that I found something that I was in love with and it fit me and it was also 17 pounds, so naturally I had to get it!  Anywho we made it onto our flight and landed in the Derry airport, which was very small and also in the middle of nowhere.  Here is where the real adventure began.  So we ended up having to get a taxi from the airport to the city center.  That was about as much as we had planned out so this is where we started saying “well I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it”…so here’s where it got a little crazy.  We decided maybe we should ask our taxi driver if he had any idea how to get to Glen Chlom Kille…a very small town on the coast.  So he got really into it and tried to help us figure it out and when we got to derry town he hopped out of the taxi and told us to wait and he would go figure out the buses for us…but then he comes running back and says that the bus is waiting for us and we gotta hurry.  So we are franticly running, also none of us have any euros so we have no idea how we are going to pay for the bus. Also Avery and Nicole’s stuff dumped out and they were spastically trying to rummage it all together as the taxi driver shouted at us to run! We bust onto the bus panting like fools, and we are trying to tell the taxi driver all the while that it is not going to work because we don’t have any euros and he just keeps saying it’s too bad and we have to get on anyways…so we did and we had to beg the driver to let us stay on and we promised to pay him once we got to an ATM.  Once on that bus we changed to two other buses and the last bus let us off in the town of Glen Cholm Kille…little did we know that our hostel was six miles away from the town, oops.  Now starts the period of my life that I like to call actually being stranded.  We are sitting outside the bus stop in the smallest town on earth, and the only thing we can see is a tiny convenience store where we buy some dinner (carrots, juice, bran cereal, biscuits, and kinder bueno bars—healthy I know) The lady in the store says that she will try and call our hostel owner cause he usually comes to pick people up at the bus stop.  But of course he was not answering, so there was nothing to do but just sit there and wait and count sheep, literally count sheep, the town is filled with them and they just romp around the town wild and free constantly nomming on grass and just baaaahing their brains out.  But the best part about it was that none of us were worried we were all just sitting outside eating, and laughing and thinking up what would have been happening if we were with our families (we love you, but it just would have been a different situation). Finally, after TWO HOURS, the lady at the store told us to go down to the pub and that someone who worked at the hostel would give us a ride.  So we romped down the street to the end of the village (one minute walk) to the village pub.  We sat there for a while and met Pete, the notorious village drunk who thought that we were crazy for not wanting a beer, and tried to understand what everyone in there was saying.  Finally we left for the hostel and it was in the most beautiful place in the whole wide world.  The hostel is right on the coast and had beautiful surroundings, we could not wait to get up the next day and explore!  It was also very clean and very safe, we had a small room, but there was a blazing fire with huge comfy chairs downstairs, so all in all, we loved it at first sight.  Even though it was a bit of traveling, we had a great day, while on the buses we saw beautiful scenery and had a grand old time! Also as a side note, I just wanted to express our gratitude, we have truly been blessed on our trip thus far, there have  been so many times where things have just worked out, and we haven't run into any huge problems!  We know that our heavenly father is looking out for us, and we are so grateful and feel so lucky that we have been able to come on this trip and have been having such a wonderful time, thank you parents for trusting us enough to let us have this amazing adventure!  

                                              Waiting for our plane. This could be a while.

 

"WHO CARES? LOOK OUT THE WINDOW!"

  

Stranded. Dinner. Yum. Yikes. 

 

                                Pete...drunk as a skunk (but he had his friends keeping an eye on him. We were safe, we promise).

lovely lovely last day in london

we went to bed at like 4am last night and woke up like zombies this morning and we will be doing the same tomorrow morning when we trek to ireland and we are all a wee bit flustered so i am going to make list of the top moments of today! hope you mamas are okay with out the essay for today...we are just already exhausted limp red eyed nomad, so here we go!

• woke up, quite unenthusiastically and headed to our fav cafe, the kitchen, to get the most delicious parfaits...it was closed. so we went to our second fav, megan's cafe, and got some yummy muffins and the cutest worker (whom i have the biggest crush on) was there again! brightened our morning!
• then we hopped on the train to meet up with the london young adult ward cause they were having a picnic...it started to pour and we decided we were gonna have to bail on this cute little outing in the park and change plans.  but i was bummed cause our sweet new friend jade was going to meet us there!
• so we decided to check out the science museum! it probably was really awesome but my lethargic body was just not feeling the crowds of people riled up about heat makers and cockroaches BUT our friend jade was told we were in there and she came and found us, so it was all worth it becuase with out her today, we would have been lost children at disneyland. 
• horrah! jade lead us to abbey road! we took the tradish pose and held up traffic while doing so! abbey road and the cross walk is over a totally busy street! i was so kinda surprised actually
• then off to notting hil!! by this time, its raining! thank the heavens mama vis bought be a down jacket!  anyways, nicole and kendall are pretty stoked about this cute village cause of the movie with julia roberts.  ive never seen it, but after all their excitement, i sure have to! we walked down portebello road and looked at all the sweet market shops. goodness, we really loved all jewelery and dresses...too bad we are poor travlers who can afford nothing but a couple postcards!
• then we split ways because we were running low on time and riley had to see the crown jews and nicole had to see the peter pan statue in hyde park.  WE SPLIT UP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WEEK. it felt weird.  kendall, nicole and riley are like my limbs now and not being all attached was a little strange. but totally fine nonetheless! the crown jews were ridiculous. bigger than kim kardashians ring and i thought it wasnt possible.  the tower of london is seriously ridiculously beautiful and we had a blast! and im sure nicole and kendall had a glorious time romping another park too! 
• they met up with us at the tower of london, where the sun finally made an appearance! wahoo!  we had some fish and chips too ! check that off the list!
• then our slug like bodies, slugged back to our apartment.  ya! we are gonna go to bed at 8pm! well...blogging world, its 12am the rest of the gang is just tucking into bed.  its been a stressful night to say the least.  minor mishaps are supposed to happen. we are supposed to book our hostile for tomorrow night the day before a realize its 3 hours away from the airport.  how are we possibly gonna get there? i dont know. but before we worry about that, we are kinda freaking out about our 7am shuttle to the airport and not to mention the possiblilty of having to gives heeps of money to the airline if our ginormous bags dont fit the miniscule size they require. 
• so, in an optimistic outlook,  tomorrow will be an adventure! cross our fingers we will 1.wake up to out 6am alarm clocks 2. make it on the tube to get to the shuttle 3. make our shuttle to take us to the airport 4. get on the plane smoothly 5. travel on the plane safely (seems like the most sketchiest thing airport/airline of my life!) 6. travel to our hostile with out spending a gaillion bucks or having to hitch hike (just kissing moms :)) and lastly 7. being safe in our first hostile of the trip! we have been so abundantly offered such nice things in england! 

so, to our sweet mothers and other readers (if there is any) we have loved england! we have loved uncy max! we have loved all the sites we have seen and places we have been! and we have loved each other! and all that loving is why i am here, reporting to you, that we are literally dead from exhaustion! i can only imagine us in 4 weeks! we are literally going to be bungie jumping in switzerland completely unaffected by the danger because our intuitions will have been lost long ago, we will be limb bodied, straight faced, grease ball rag a muffins just falling off a bridge because we may have fallen asleep at the top! alright! my bed time has passed hours ago! the girls are sound asleep...well not entirely, nicole is coughing up a lung but fear not! we are taking good care of her! she chugged some coughing syrup :) well, hopefully we can report smooth travels tomorrow night! so until then, keep the praying coming! also know that all our families are in our nightly roommate prayer! love you! avery, out! (literally...sorry if this is filled with spelling and grammar mistakes...too...tired to...reread)


*we posted 400 pictures on nicoles faceook, check it out!
**pictures on the blog will come soon, too tired!