Monday, August 16, 2004

Back again...But not for Long

Dear Blog,

So how dearly have I missed writing to you? Have you missed me? I hope so..lol...okay let me stop flirting with my blog...well it has been certainly a long time since i have written in my blog...so what have i been up to...well i have been on vacation for quite a long time it seems...my vacation started the first week of august and is on a break now till the end of this week when i am on vacation again....my friend sally came from seattle in the first week of august and did we do stuff...we walked and talked like there was no tomorrow...we joked around threw some sarcasm around and just had a blast..we went to stonehedge to see the rock circle and you know what i did not realize it was literally in the middle of nowhere...then hung out in the neighboring town on salisbury and that was certainly interesting..realized that a quiet little suburban town is not for me nor sally ..realized after a while we needed a place a bit more lively and full of younger trendier people...so went up to leicester square which is one of the happening areas of london...was good fun..the next day went to hampton court palace..beautiful surroundings with gardens and statues...it is weird how these locations have so much history around it ..hard to believe that there used to be a king or queen living in these houses...henry VIII used to live in this palace and because of him many positive changes occurred in the country....the day after we headed down to cambridge where cambridge university is located...so much fun and liveliness...the campus is just beautiful...wow i had such a great time..sally and i went punting which is similar to a venetian boating style...we figure why risk doing it ourselves and make a fool of ourselves ..just hire someone ...afterwards we went back to leicester square and found london shows for a really cheap price..we decided that we needed a laugh...so we decided to go ahead and watch the jerry springer show the opera...well let me put it this way the show was funny but it could use some refining ...but good fun overall...i think sometime that week we also had some indian food at a restaurant in covent garden where the owner was just loud and speaking about bush and all...i was like what the hell get a life...not that i like bush and all but i hate it when europeans put america down like that ..you know what i mean..the next couple of days ..sally and i just chilled in london and toured around to see the sites and stuff...it was fun..cause at one point it began raining and we sort of wore garbage bags..literally looked like little white ghosts.lol..
friday we took it rather easy and went shopping and stuff...met up with sally's possible future in laws and they seem really nice...and of course sally was a bit nervous but isn;t everyone..i am glad that i could be there for her...friday night we decided to dress up and look a bit sexy...yeah yeah we had not dressed up in a while so much needed ...we met up with my friend jackie and went to a club/bar and just hung out ..the music was alright not something i would get up and boogie too..but just cool to be with a friendly crowd...got back really late at night and had to get back early to gatwick airport to pick up bro...
when my bro came we just took it really easy cause the next day we were off to our european adventures...to rome, italy and prague, czech republic...

rome was really nice..i can not wait to show my family and friends the pictures...we walked and walked but in the end got to see everything that we wanted to..including the sistine chapel , vatican, st. peter's basilica, colleseum, the roman forum, the pantheon, and a whole bunch of piazzas...in its twisted way it reminds me much of nyc and liveliness and touristy attitude that it held...the prices were extremely expensive when we converted euros to dollars..but oh well we live once..i am not gonna go to rome every year...my brother and i had a grand ol time though we did have our moments but what set of siblings do not ...pretty abnormal if you do not bicker just a tad bit ..i know that my brother will always be at my side and stick up for me...we saw some museums too that was pretty nice...it is just an awesome feeling that back in the olden days people were just using pure genius to come with beautiful paintings and statues..just amazing ...next we arrived in prague on an airline called bmi baby...you know like ' be my baby'..lol.just a little humor..the flight was well but the terminal was out in the boon docks of nowhere land..we just kept cracking up cause it was just so funny ..some of airport people did not even know what to do with us..lol..but finally got there and made it to our hotel at the hilton prague...gorgeous place to stay ..i got an awesome view with access to the executive lounge which made every bit worthwhile.....prague is a pretty place with prague castle and the charles bridge...and especially the mixture of baroque and gothic architecture..but this was definetly completely within 2 days and that made a trip a bit relaxing especially coming back from rome where i was ready to hang up my feet ....my bro and i had gone there with an anticipation to shop ..but the prices were just so stupidly hiked up ...your mood to shop just decreased and lost all sense of doing anything ..but it is okay got to save some money ..so i think right...at one point we did not buy a ticket to the metro thinking we can get away with it..but as my lucj was a bit against me the metro cops cause us and we had to pay an 800 kroner fee...i broke down in tears in establishing such a bad day it was..but it is okay sometimes being too too overconfident can hurt us...finally made it back to the uk and just slept...did not know that my bro and i slept for like 12 hours the night before jignesh's flight ....

today was my first day back at work till my vacation next week...i got a letter from my friend krishna and i just want to hug her and let her know that everything will be okay ...i can not wait to see her next week.....it is funny how much all of us have done in the last 8 months or so...scary yet sooooo exciting ....

wowiee

ciao,
dimple