One of the websites I check everyday for a daily dose of laughter is failblog.org. It basically is a website of "what were they thinking?" videos, pictures, newspaper articles etc. Some are funny, some are crude, this made me really laugh! Enjoy :)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
PARIS!!!
Paris was an absolutely beautiful city. I went into it thinking that it was going to be my least favorite because I was never really interested in French history, and I'm not a super artsy-fartsy kind of girl and I always pictured Paris as that. I quickly changed my mind. The city was beautiful! The buildings had beautiful architecture and detail, and not just the famous touristy ones, but everywhere! While we were there is was cold and rainy. When you look through the pictures you'll see that I am wearing the same sweatshirt in basically all of them. We were in Paris for three days but I kind of look like I was only there one because I'm wearing the same thing in all the pictures. It was cold and that was the only sweatshirt that I had with me.
For ALL the pictures, CLICK HERE.
My favorite thing that we in the city was see the Eiffel Tower at night. It was so AWESOME!!!
Every hour, on the hour the tower would sparkle for 10 minutes. We were up on the Arc looking out at the Tower for 9pm. We decided to take the subway down to the base for the 10pm. And it was so cool!
My second favorite thing that we did was The Pantheon. The Frenchies liked the one in Rome (pictures to come later) and so they copied and made their own in Paris. It didn't really look anything alike on the inside, mostly just on the outside. The reason it was my favorite was the crypts down below. There were so many famous people buried there, it was pretty neat!
The Laundry Story
On our last night in Paris at about 9:30 we needed to do laundry. We asked the guy at the front desk and he pointed us in the direction of the closest laundromat. We find it no problem, and we go in and start to read the signs to figure we we need to do since they are all in French (none of us speak French). At 10pm sharp, as we are still trying to figure out what we do, the lights automatically turn off and the door to the shop is closing. I RUN over to the door and catch it before it closes, scared that we are going to get locked in or something. Of course after we gather up our laundry and leave we see the sign that says (we think) not to start laundry after 9pm.
So we are kind of standing around looking stupid and a cute elderly couple is walking down the street and they start talking to us French. We realize that they are trying to tell us where another laundromat is. Talk about a language barrier! We kind of get the drift of what they are saying to keep going down this street and then take your 3rd or 4th right and it would be there. Please try and picture this, three 20-something girls walking around in t-shirts and gym shorts carrying a huge duffel bag of clothes at 10pm in a residential area of Paris. We looked awesome. About 15 minutes later by some MIRACLE we find this Laundromat right as we were about to turn around and head back to the hostel before we get ourselves lost. Well, of course it was closed. So we go back and decide that we are just going to have to do it all in the morning. We get the the original place early enough so that we don't waste the day away and there an overflowing washing machine. There was soap seeping out all over :) The person that had that load didn't come in the whole time that we were there so we didn't get to see a reaction or anything, but it was fun to watch! It was quite the adventure!!!
For ALL the pictures, CLICK HERE.
My favorite thing that we in the city was see the Eiffel Tower at night. It was so AWESOME!!!
Every hour, on the hour the tower would sparkle for 10 minutes. We were up on the Arc looking out at the Tower for 9pm. We decided to take the subway down to the base for the 10pm. And it was so cool!
My second favorite thing that we did was The Pantheon. The Frenchies liked the one in Rome (pictures to come later) and so they copied and made their own in Paris. It didn't really look anything alike on the inside, mostly just on the outside. The reason it was my favorite was the crypts down below. There were so many famous people buried there, it was pretty neat!The Laundry Story
On our last night in Paris at about 9:30 we needed to do laundry. We asked the guy at the front desk and he pointed us in the direction of the closest laundromat. We find it no problem, and we go in and start to read the signs to figure we we need to do since they are all in French (none of us speak French). At 10pm sharp, as we are still trying to figure out what we do, the lights automatically turn off and the door to the shop is closing. I RUN over to the door and catch it before it closes, scared that we are going to get locked in or something. Of course after we gather up our laundry and leave we see the sign that says (we think) not to start laundry after 9pm.
So we are kind of standing around looking stupid and a cute elderly couple is walking down the street and they start talking to us French. We realize that they are trying to tell us where another laundromat is. Talk about a language barrier! We kind of get the drift of what they are saying to keep going down this street and then take your 3rd or 4th right and it would be there. Please try and picture this, three 20-something girls walking around in t-shirts and gym shorts carrying a huge duffel bag of clothes at 10pm in a residential area of Paris. We looked awesome. About 15 minutes later by some MIRACLE we find this Laundromat right as we were about to turn around and head back to the hostel before we get ourselves lost. Well, of course it was closed. So we go back and decide that we are just going to have to do it all in the morning. We get the the original place early enough so that we don't waste the day away and there an overflowing washing machine. There was soap seeping out all over :) The person that had that load didn't come in the whole time that we were there so we didn't get to see a reaction or anything, but it was fun to watch! It was quite the adventure!!!Videos of Paris:
Troubles with pictures
I've been having some troubles uploading pictures from Scotland and from our first trip to London. The reason is because those pictures got transferred to CDs and the CDs got damaged in all the moving around. I am trying to salvage what I can, but it's taking a long time. I don't want to put up pictures of some of the trip without the whole thing so I'm skipping over those pictures and will come back to them later. I've decided to move on to the rest of Europe and then when I'm done with those, I'll upload what I have of Scotland and London.
Friday, August 7, 2009
FINALLY!!!
I realized that I haven't posted anything on the blog in well over a month. The reason: I have been having the summer of a lifetime and haven't stopped to blog! But I'm back in Utah now and have some time on my hands before school starts so I'm updating now and hope to be able to get all my pictures up from this summer!!! First, we'll finish up my study abroad experience. Many of you may have already seen these pictures via facebook, but if not here are the links. I'll post some videos from our adventures too!
A Saturday afternoon in England
SEE PICTURES HERE
Carianne and I went for an adventure to a park that had some hiking trails in it. We hiked out to a old mill and then decided to take a turn that we weren't completely sure where it led to. We ended getting lost, but it was tons of fun. We knew the general area of where we were, but it was still adventurous and we found our way back safe and sound. Here are videos of some sheep that we had fun with and the view of where we were :)
Getting Lost Video (sorry about the noise, it was windy)
Pride and Prejudice
SEE PICTURES HERE
Pemberly is Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice. In the long 5 hour version from A&E, Pemberly was filmed at Lyme Park. In the newer version with Kiera Knightly it is filmed at Chatsworth. The movie The Duchess was also filmed at Chatsworth. We got to visit both locations and they were truly beautiful estates! Lyme Park is owned by the government and is in the National Trust. Chatsworth is still home to the Duke and Duchess of somewhere that I can't remember, but they open part of their home to the public for tours and the grounds were open too! It was awesome!
The Lake District
SEE PICTURES HERE
This was quite an adventurous day! We had made plans before we even came to England that we were going to spend a weekend in the Lake District, spending the night in a hostel somewhere. We booked our hostel the night before we went. When we got to the Lake District is was raining, hard, a lot. We had been planning on doing hikes, so that was sort of out. We then decided to go see the Beatrix Potter house (she wrote The Velveteen Rabbit). We got the visitor's center for the town that we had taken the train into, and found out that the house was closed that day. They were showing us some other things that we could do even thought the weather stunk. Michelle and I were immediately sold on the "Cars of the Stars" museum that was in a town about 45 minutes away. We jumped on the bus and got up to this town of Keswick. We were mostly excited about seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We take the bus up to the town and the museum end up being on this strange side street that we barely found. We go in and find out that we aren't allowed to take pictures, yeah right. We didn't just come all the way up there to see these famous cars and weren't going to take pictures. So we snuck some out of the pockets of our coats. :)
We wander around this town for a bit and find out that this is the place that pencils were invented and they had a Pencil Museum and the largest pencil in the world at 8 feet long, who knew? We also mosied over to the 007 James Bond Museum. It was owned by the same guy that owned Cars of the Stars so we figured we wouldn't be able to take pictures so we just went over and took pictures outside. When Michelle and I were done with our adventure in Keswick, the other girls had called us and said that they were going to cancel the hostel and go back to Huddersfield because of the rain. Michelle and I figured that would be fine. We got back to the bus stop to meet Carianne so we could go home together and we found this trail that ended leading up to a beautiful overview of a lake. We walked through a sheep field. When we finally got back on the train to go back to Huddersfield, we saw the Elders on the train. We talked with them for a while. They asked us if we knew a sister that was serving in their mission that had been in the nursing program at BYU. Carianne knew her because she had dated her brother at one point. SMALL WORLD!!!!! It was a crazy day but it was beautiful there and we got to see a lot!
A Saturday afternoon in England
SEE PICTURES HERE
Carianne and I went for an adventure to a park that had some hiking trails in it. We hiked out to a old mill and then decided to take a turn that we weren't completely sure where it led to. We ended getting lost, but it was tons of fun. We knew the general area of where we were, but it was still adventurous and we found our way back safe and sound. Here are videos of some sheep that we had fun with and the view of where we were :)
Sheep Video
Getting Lost Video (sorry about the noise, it was windy)
Pride and Prejudice
SEE PICTURES HERE
Pemberly is Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice. In the long 5 hour version from A&E, Pemberly was filmed at Lyme Park. In the newer version with Kiera Knightly it is filmed at Chatsworth. The movie The Duchess was also filmed at Chatsworth. We got to visit both locations and they were truly beautiful estates! Lyme Park is owned by the government and is in the National Trust. Chatsworth is still home to the Duke and Duchess of somewhere that I can't remember, but they open part of their home to the public for tours and the grounds were open too! It was awesome!
The Lake District
SEE PICTURES HERE
This was quite an adventurous day! We had made plans before we even came to England that we were going to spend a weekend in the Lake District, spending the night in a hostel somewhere. We booked our hostel the night before we went. When we got to the Lake District is was raining, hard, a lot. We had been planning on doing hikes, so that was sort of out. We then decided to go see the Beatrix Potter house (she wrote The Velveteen Rabbit). We got the visitor's center for the town that we had taken the train into, and found out that the house was closed that day. They were showing us some other things that we could do even thought the weather stunk. Michelle and I were immediately sold on the "Cars of the Stars" museum that was in a town about 45 minutes away. We jumped on the bus and got up to this town of Keswick. We were mostly excited about seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We take the bus up to the town and the museum end up being on this strange side street that we barely found. We go in and find out that we aren't allowed to take pictures, yeah right. We didn't just come all the way up there to see these famous cars and weren't going to take pictures. So we snuck some out of the pockets of our coats. :)
We wander around this town for a bit and find out that this is the place that pencils were invented and they had a Pencil Museum and the largest pencil in the world at 8 feet long, who knew? We also mosied over to the 007 James Bond Museum. It was owned by the same guy that owned Cars of the Stars so we figured we wouldn't be able to take pictures so we just went over and took pictures outside. When Michelle and I were done with our adventure in Keswick, the other girls had called us and said that they were going to cancel the hostel and go back to Huddersfield because of the rain. Michelle and I figured that would be fine. We got back to the bus stop to meet Carianne so we could go home together and we found this trail that ended leading up to a beautiful overview of a lake. We walked through a sheep field. When we finally got back on the train to go back to Huddersfield, we saw the Elders on the train. We talked with them for a while. They asked us if we knew a sister that was serving in their mission that had been in the nursing program at BYU. Carianne knew her because she had dated her brother at one point. SMALL WORLD!!!!! It was a crazy day but it was beautiful there and we got to see a lot!
Our crazy day:
Monday, June 29, 2009
the U S of A
I'm back in the USofA. It's been 8 weeks, and I've loved the whole thing but am SOOOO happy to be home! I was home sick for sure! But I have thousands of pictures to go through to pick out the best to show you. Don't worry, I got lots of time this summer and will be posting things as soon as I'm done oogling over my niece who is here with my sister. Keep checking back!
-Candice
-Candice
Sunday, June 14, 2009
A bittersweet day
Yesterday I made that post about our awesome day. It was truly awesome but it had the potential to be horrendous. Let me tell you what happened. The night before we ate dinner at a restaurant right outside our hostel. It was good food but the whole experience was a nightmare. First of all the guy really wanted us to ate there and had promised us free drinks, dessert and 10% off our dinner. We were looking for a place to eat anyways so we sat down. He totally ripped us off and wouldn't give us our check for 2 hours because he needed the tables to look full. So once we finally got us our check, it was not what he said and we argued but he wouldn't budge and we wanted to get out of there anyways. Well 8 hours later, all three of us are up. Food poisoning. Eww. I wake up with time of month cramps on top of being sick. The next day we were going on a walking tour of Athens and Heidi almost didn't go, but then decided too. On the the walking tour, I got sunburned. During the course of the afternoon we went to an ATM and I put my card in to get money and the machine wouldn't give it back. It said "The transaction has timed out. The card has been captured. Please contact the provider." Well we tried to call the bank I used it at, no answer. They don't open until Monday and we will be half way to Santorini by then. I wasn't too worried about for the rest of the day because I knew the card was safe in a machine and not out wandering the streets. Later in the day, we still all have serious gastrointestinal problems going on (I'll leave it at that), and decided not to eat anything. We each downed two bottles of Gatorade though and immediately felt better. We were really dehydrated. Last night we went to the movie theater. Here that means on a rooftop with the lit up Acropolis on one side of you and watching the movie on a big projector screen. It was so fun! We saw Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (I wouldn't reccommend it) in English with Greek subtitles. But the whole experience was fun! After the movie I started making phone calls and it was like pulling teeth to try and explain the situation. I had to by a calling card to talk with the bank and another credit card company. It had 222 minutes on it and now only about 40. I think I'm all sorted now, but I will still have about $120 in fees to pay in order to cash now. But what's done is done. Oh well.
As you can see it COULD have been a really horrible day. But luckily the Lord blessed me with patience, beautiful weather, and the opportunity to be in Athens so I was okay with it all. Miss you all, I'll be back to the states before I know it!
As you can see it COULD have been a really horrible day. But luckily the Lord blessed me with patience, beautiful weather, and the opportunity to be in Athens so I was okay with it all. Miss you all, I'll be back to the states before I know it!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The place of Gods
I am in Greece. We flew into Athens yesterday and I absolutely love it here! We did all the touristy stuff today, the Acropolis, Temple of Zeus, original Olympis sites, my favorite The Theatre of Dionysis. It is so beautiful here, and wicked hot!!!!! But I love it. We'll have fun tomorrow again and then take a ferry early Monday morning out to the Greek island of Santorini. I am so PSYCHED!!!!!! I can't believe that the trip is coming to a close. I have had so much fun and seen so much. Today was completely surreal for me. The places I saw today were places I have dreamed of visiting since I was in fifth grade!!! WOW!!! It was awesome. Talk to you later!
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