so a lot has happened since i last really updated this site. I went to london and stayed with april and her friend anna. we visited widsor castle, stonehenge, and bath. it was a total blast. we rode on the london eye, which we should all applaud april for because she has an incredible fear of heights and went up anyway... though she stayed in the middle looking at her feet most of the time, i did manage to get one good picture of us looking as though she loved it(though if you look closely she's grabbing my arm quite tightly). That view from up there was amazing, just across from big ben!! we walked the millenium bridge and the tower bridge, passing the london bridge and taking thousands of pictures. we stayed in a hostle near st. paul's cathedral that actually used to be the choir boys' dorms (april's choice and well done). we went to picadilly circle and had dinner there with all the big lights surrounding us, a bit like new york, but with a mix of really really old buildings added in as well, very pretty and interesting. as soon as i got there it felt i had to leave. the stonehenge/bath/windsor castle trip we did with a tour was great. we got a lot of good pictures (though at stonehenge it was SOOOOOO cold and windy that was about all we got, practically running all the way around it, snapping shots and then taking refuge in the packed out bookshop. windsor castle was a blast, so much history, yet parts of it are still used and enjoyed by royalty today, incredible. bath was way cool, we were even able to capture the steam of the baths in the pictures, it was really interesting, they tried to piece together the old things they'd recovered, with new materials and made rooms of museums, yet the baths worked perfectly (i'm sure with a lot of maintenence), and they said that they hope within the next few years to open some of them up to public use. we also encountered a jane austen store there, she grew up there in bath for a while, though she pretty much despised it, they celebrate her living there with book fairs etc. and of coarse with the recent movie coming out, there was a lot of people visiting her little museum and bookshop. oh and we definitely found a cadbury store and got hot chocolate and cookies/chocolate (to each her own), why do the best souveniers never last more than a day? anyway then after london, when i left for puerto, april left for the states, that changed my plans (by only one week) i added a week to my stay in el puerto (just enough to keep the stress level do-able for finishing all my DLP courses), and will be meeting my mom and marisa today in munich. i believe we will be staying the night there and going back to austria tomorrow to marisa's house. ... i say i believe, because the plans got all messed up when i missed my original flight yesterday. i was so careful too, i had everything printed out and looked at it about a thousand times. but i went into the city in sevilla to look around a bit (I LOVE sevilla), and planned on taking a taxi back, only to discover (after wandering VERY far to find one) that they were on strike, and so i had to take 3 busses to the airport and missed the plane, leaving me one option, get on yet another bus and find a hotel, which is where i am now, and about to sign out and go sit in the airport for 4 hours to be sure everything goes well (there are taxis today they only strike every-other day--- the most touristic days so as to cause problems like mine... mission accomplished huh?! anyway i'm having fun resting and talking to friends online, and hearing from mom and dad the progression of mom's trip, she's almost here in europe by now!!!! okay so now you're more or less caught up, mom and i will write together later. have a good one!